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| − | The Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti. ([[Tibetan]]: | + | The [[Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti]]. ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད}}, [[Wylie]]: '[[jam dpal mtshan brjod]]) (hereafter, [[Nama-samgiti]]) is considered amongst the most advanced teachings given by the [[Gautama Buddha|Shakyamuni Buddha]]. It represents the pinnacle of all [[Shakyamuni Buddha's]] teachings, being a [[tantra]] of the [[nondual]] ([[advaya]]) class, along with the [[Kalachakra Tantra]]. |
| − | The [[Nama-samgiti]] was [[preached]] by [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] for his [[disciple]] [[Vajrapani]] and his [[wrathful]] retinue in order to lead them into [[buddhahood]]. The [[essence]] of the Nama-samgiti is that [[Manjushri]] [[bodhisattva]] is the [[embodiment]] of all [[knowledge]]. The [[Nama-samgiti]] is a short text, only circa 160 verses and a prose section. It is a fraction of the vast [[Sutra]]s such as [[Avatamsaka Sutra]] and [[Prajñāpāramitā Sutras]] or the [[endless]] ocean of [[tantras]] such as [[manjushri-mula-kalpa]] and the mountainous [[Hinayana]] teachings and sea of sundry extra-canonical works. And yet, the [[Nama-samgiti]] contains all of the [[Buddha's]] [[dharma]]s. It summarizes everything he [[taught]]. As [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] says of the [[Nama-samgiti]], it is "the chief clarification of words". It is the "[[nondual]] [[reality]]". Therefore all [[sentient beings]] should definitely study and recite the [[manjushri-nama-samgiti]]. | + | The [[Nama-samgiti]] was [[preached]] by [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] for his [[disciple]] [[Vajrapani]] and his [[wrathful]] retinue in order to lead them into [[buddhahood]]. The [[essence]] of the [[Nama-samgiti]] is that [[Manjushri]] [[bodhisattva]] is the [[embodiment]] of all [[knowledge]]. The [[Nama-samgiti]] is a short text, only circa 160 verses and a prose section. It is a fraction of the vast [[Sutra]]s such as [[Avatamsaka Sutra]] and [[Prajñāpāramitā Sutras]] or the [[endless]] ocean of [[tantras]] such as [[manjushri-mula-kalpa]] and the mountainous [[Hinayana]] teachings and sea of sundry extra-canonical works. And yet, the [[Nama-samgiti]] contains all of the [[Buddha's]] [[dharma]]s. It summarizes everything he [[taught]]. As [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] says of the [[Nama-samgiti]], it is "the chief clarification of words". It is the "[[nondual]] [[reality]]". Therefore all [[sentient beings]] should definitely study and recite the [[manjushri-nama-samgiti]]. |
==Alternative titles== | ==Alternative titles== | ||
*"[[manjushrijnanasattvasya-paramartha-namasamgiti]]" (full [[Sanskrit]] title) lit. "The [[chanting of the names of Manjushri]] , the [[embodiment of supreme knowledge]]" | *"[[manjushrijnanasattvasya-paramartha-namasamgiti]]" (full [[Sanskrit]] title) lit. "The [[chanting of the names of Manjushri]] , the [[embodiment of supreme knowledge]]" | ||
| − | *[[Āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti]] | + | *[[Āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti]] {{BigTibetan|ཨཱརྱ་མཉྫུ་ཤྲཱི་ནཱ་མ་སཾ་གི་ཏི}} |
| − | *[[Tibetan]]: | + | *[[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ}} |
| − | *[[Tibetan]]: | + | *[[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་དོན་དམ་པའི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ}} |
| − | *[[Tibetan]]: | + | *[[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|རྒྱུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ}}, [[Wylie]]: [[rgyud thams cad kyi rgyal po 'phags pa 'jam dpal gyi mtshan yang dag par brjod pa]] |
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The Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti. (Tibetan: འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད, Wylie: 'jam dpal mtshan brjod) (hereafter, Nama-samgiti) is considered amongst the most advanced teachings given by the Shakyamuni Buddha. It represents the pinnacle of all Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings, being a tantra of the nondual (advaya) class, along with the Kalachakra Tantra.
The Nama-samgiti was preached by Shakyamuni Buddha for his disciple Vajrapani and his wrathful retinue in order to lead them into buddhahood. The essence of the Nama-samgiti is that Manjushri bodhisattva is the embodiment of all knowledge. The Nama-samgiti is a short text, only circa 160 verses and a prose section. It is a fraction of the vast Sutras such as Avatamsaka Sutra and Prajñāpāramitā Sutras or the endless ocean of tantras such as manjushri-mula-kalpa and the mountainous Hinayana teachings and sea of sundry extra-canonical works. And yet, the Nama-samgiti contains all of the Buddha's dharmas. It summarizes everything he taught. As Shakyamuni Buddha says of the Nama-samgiti, it is "the chief clarification of words". It is the "nondual reality". Therefore all sentient beings should definitely study and recite the manjushri-nama-samgiti.
Alternative titles
- "manjushrijnanasattvasya-paramartha-namasamgiti" (full Sanskrit title) lit. "The chanting of the names of Manjushri , the embodiment of supreme knowledge"
- Āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti ཨཱརྱ་མཉྫུ་ཤྲཱི་ནཱ་མ་སཾ་གི་ཏི
- Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ
- Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་དོན་དམ་པའི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ
- Tibetan: རྒྱུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ, Wylie: rgyud thams cad kyi rgyal po 'phags pa 'jam dpal gyi mtshan yang dag par brjod pa
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