Consecration of Stupas, Statues, Tsatsas1, and Other Sacred Images
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Maṅgala
Blessing.
Mālā
oṃ rucirā maṇi pravartamānaye svāhā॥The prayer beads blessing is a short dedication
blessing that gathers the heart
around the mālā and asks that each touch of the beads deepen the recitation. A mālā is a garland
or string of beads used to count repetitions of a mantra or sacred phrase, and moving through it
with each repetition is understood to settle the mind and mark the completion of a round.
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
ॐ रुचिरा मणि प्रवर्तमानये स्वाहा॥Japa
oṃ sambhara sambhara vimānasara mahājapa hūṃ । oṃ smara smara vimānaskara mahājapa hūṃ॥The blessing of prayer is a short dedication that gathers
the heart around recitation and asks
that each repetition deepen the practice.
Source: Recitation Manuals Series - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
ॐ सांभारा सांभारा विमानसारा महाजप हूं । ॐ स्मरा स्मरा विमानस्कारा महाजप हूं॥Dharma
oṃ dhuru dhuru jayaṃukḥe svāhā॥Dharma is the Sanskrit term for the Buddha's teaching, the truth of how things are, and the
virtuous qualities that follow from understanding it; its scope includes both the doctrine and
the practice that embodies it. The Buddha's first discourse, the Rolling Forth of the Dhamma,
presents the four noble truths as the foundation of that teaching.
The blessing of virtue is a short dedication that
gathers the heart around the Dharma
and asks that the teaching continue to shine through the practitioner's actions.
Source: Rolling Forth the Dhamma (SN 56.11) - SuttaCentral
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
ॐ धुरु धुरु जयामुखे स्वाहा॥Namaskāra
oṃ namo mañjuśrīye । namo suśrīye । namo uttamaśrīye svāhā॥The prostration blessing is a short
dedication that gathers the heart in
veneration and lets the body follow.
Namaskāra means homage or prostration, a gesture offered to buddhas, bodhisattvas, and teachers
with body, speech, and mind. It commonly opens the seven-branch service, expresses respect and
the taking of refuge, and begins many sessions of practice or devotion.
Source: Seven Branches Series - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
ॐ: नमो मंजुश्रिये । नमो सुश्रिये । नमो उत्तमश्रिये स्वाहा:॥Śaraṇagamana Cittotpāda Gāthā
buddhaṁ ca dharmaṁ ca gaṇottamaṁ ca । yāvaddhi bodhiṁ śaraṇaṁ prayāmi । dānādi kṛtyaścā kṛtaiḥ mayāebhīḥ buddho । bhāvyaṁ jagato hitāya॥The Śaraṇagamana Cittotpāda Gāthā is a verse for taking
refuge and giving rise to
bodhicitta. It expresses the practitioner's
commitment to rely on the Three
Jewels and to cultivate the
altruistic intention to attain awakening for the benefit of all beings. Recited at the beginning
of Mahāyāna and
Vajrayāna practices, it establishes the foundation of
refuge and compassion that supports all subsequent meditation and activity.
Source: A Simple Commentary on the Prayer of Refuge and Bodhichitta - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
बुद्धं च धर्मं च गणोत्तमं च यावद्धि बोधिं शरणं प्रयामि । दानादिकृत्यैश्च कृतैर्मयैभिर्बुद्धो भवेयं जगतो हिताय॥Catvāry Apramāṇāni
sattvāḥ sukhena samprayujyeran । sattvā duḥkhena viyujyeran । sattvāḥ sukhena na viyujyeran । sattvāḥ hitaṁ labheran॥Catvāry Apramāṇāni, the four immeasurables, are
maitrī (loving-kindness),
karuṇā (compassion),
muditā (sympathetic joy), and
upekṣā (equanimity) - the boundless
qualities of heart that the bodhisattva cultivates without limit.
In practice they are extended without limit toward all sentient beings. The traditional prayer
expresses the wish that beings meet with happiness, be free from suffering, and remain
undisturbed. Cultivating them is held to calm the mind and support the bodhisattva path.
Source: An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
सत्त्वाः सुखेन सम्प्रयुज्येरन् । सत्त्वा दुःखेन वियुज्येरन् । सत्त्वाः सुखेन न वियुज्येरन् । सत्त्वाः हितं लभेरन्॥Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya
oṃ gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā॥Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya is the Heart Sutra, a concise Perfection of
Wisdom scripture. All Buddhas of the three
ages - past, present, and future - rely
on the Perfection of Wisdom to reach unexcelled complete enlightenment. The text describes the
emptiness of all phenomena and the path of the bodhisattva. Its closing mantra -
oṃ gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā - encapsulates the teaching in a single
utterance; the Perfection of Wisdom is the all-powerful prayer, able to dispel all suffering,
and reciting the mantra is held to dispel suffering and support the realization of awakening.
Source: The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom - 84000
oṃ gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā - encapsulates the teaching in a single
utterance; the Perfection of Wisdom is the all-powerful prayer, able to dispel all suffering,
and reciting the mantra is held to dispel suffering and support the realization of awakening.Oṃ Gone, Gone, Everyone gone to the other shore, Awakening, So Be It!
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- 𑖭𑖿𑖠𑖩𑖿-Siddhaṃ
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
- Pāli
- සිංහල-Sinhala
- 中文-Chinese
ॐ गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा॥𑖌𑖼 𑖐𑖝𑖸 𑖐𑖝𑖸 𑖢𑖯𑖨𑖐𑖝𑖸 𑖢𑖯𑖨𑖭𑖽𑖐𑖝𑖸 𑖤𑖺𑖠𑖰 𑖭𑖿𑖪𑖯𑖮𑖯𑗃ཨོཾ་ག་ཏེ་ག་ཏེ་པཱ་ར་ག་ཏེ་པཱ་ར་སཾ་ག་ཏེ་བོ་དྷི་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༎oṃ gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā෴ඕං ගතේ ගතේ පාරගතේ පාරසංගතේ බෝධි ස්වාහා෴唵 揭諦 揭諦 波羅揭諦 波羅僧揭諦 菩提 梭哈。Śūnyatā
oṃ svabhāva śuddhā sarva dharmāḥ svabhāva śuddho 'ham॥The Buddha nature. This mantra recalls the
intrinsic purity of all phenomena and of one's own mind. By reciting it, practitioners remember
that all dharmas are empty and pure by nature, cutting through confusion and ego-grasping. It
brings awareness into the present moment, settles the mind, and opens the way to recognizing the
natural clarity that has always been there.
Source: Emptiness Series - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- 𑖭𑖿𑖠𑖩𑖿-Siddhaṃ
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
- Pāli
- සිංහල-Sinhala
- 中文-Chinese
ॐ स्वभाव शुद्धाः सर्व धर्माः स्वभाव शुद्धो ऽहं॥𑖌𑖽 𑖭𑖿𑖪𑖥𑖯𑖪 𑖫𑗜𑖟𑖿𑖠 𑖭𑖨𑖿𑖪 𑖠𑖨𑖿𑖦 𑖭𑖿𑖪𑖥𑖯𑖪 𑖫𑗜𑖟𑖿𑖠 𑖄𑖮𑖽𑗃ཨོཾ་སྭ་བྷཱ་ཝ་ཤུདྡྷཱཿསརྦ་དྷརྨཱཿསྭ་བྷཱ་ཝ་ཤུདྡྷོ྅ཧཾ༎oṃ svabhāva śuddhā sarva dharmāḥ svabhāva śuddho 'ham෴ඕං ස්වභාව ශුද්ධාඃ සර්ව ධර්මාඃ ස්වභාව ශුද්ධෝ (අ)හං෴唵 梭巴瓦 虛達 薩兒哇 達兒瑪 梭巴瓦 虛多 杭。Āhvāna
chok chu na zhukpé sangyé dang chang chub sempa tamché dak la gong su sol।
ji si namkhé ta dang nyampé semchen tamché mi népé nya ngen lé dépé sa la ma zhak gi bar du gyalwa nam nya ngen lé mi dawar tenpar zhuk su sol।
khyepar du yang ku sung tuk kyi ten di nam ji si jungwa zhi'i nöpé ma zhik gi bar du tenpar zhuk su sol।
tenpar zhuk né kyang dak dang sem chen tamché la chok dang tün mong gi ngö drup ma lü pa tsal du sol॥
Invocation and Request.
All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas abiding in the ten directions, please pay attention to us!
Until all sentient beings, as infinite as the space itself, are brought to the state of perfect nirvāṇa beyond extremes, may all the victorious ones remain here constantly, without passing into nirvāṇa!
In particular, may the victorious ones remain here until the four elements destroy these representations of enlightened body, speech, and mind.
And, as the victorious ones remain here, please grant us and all other beings all the supreme and ordinary siddhis!
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་ན་བཞུགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཐམས་ཅད་བདག་ལ་དགོངས་སུ་གསོལ།
ཇི་སྲིད་ནམ་མཁའི་མཐའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་མི་གནས་པའི་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པའི་ས་ལ་མ་བཞག་གི་བར་དུ་རྒྱལ་བ་རྣམས་མྱ་ངན་ལས་མི་འདའ་བར་བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ།
ཁྱད་པར་དུ་ཡང་སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྟེན་འདི་རྣམས་ལ་ཇི་སྲིད་འབྱུང་བ་བཞིའི་གནོད་པས་མ་ཞིག་གི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ།
བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས་ནས་ཀྱང་བདག་དང་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་མཆོག་དང་ཐུན་མོང་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་མ་ལུས་པ་སྩལ་དུ་གསོལ༎
Pratītyasamutpāda Samudaya Nirodha
avijjā paccayā saṅkhārā । saṅkhāra paccayā viññāṇaṁ।
viññāṇa paccayā nāmarūpaṁ । nāma rūpa paccayā saḷāyatanaṁ।
saḷāyatana paccayā phasso । phassa paccayā vedanā।
vedanā paccayā taṇhā । taṇhā paccayā upādānaṁ।
upādāna paccayā bhavo । bhava paccayā jāti।
jāti paccayā jarā maraṇaṁ soka parideva dukkha domanassupāyāsā sambhavanti।
evametassa kevalassa dukkhakhandassa samudayo hoti।
avijjāyatveva asesa virāga nirodhā saṅkhāra nirodho । saṅkhāra nirodhā viññāna nirodho।
viññāna nirodhā nāmarūpa nirodho । nāmarūpa nirodhā saḷāyatana nirodho।
saḷāyatana nirodhā phassa nirodho । phassa nirodhā vedanā nirodho।
vedanā nirodhā taṇhā nirodho । taṇhā nirodhā upādāna nirodho।
upādāna nirodhā bhava nirodho । bhava nirodhā jāti nirodho।
jāti nirodhā jarā maraṇaṁ soka parideva dukkha domanassupāyāsā nirujjhanti।
evametassa kevalassa dukkhakhandhassa nirodho hoti॥
The Arising and Cessation of causality
(nidāna) is the
wheel of twelve links traced forward as it rises, then reversed as it falls back to stillness.
Source: Dependent Origination (SN 12.1) - SuttaCentral
Dependent on ignorance, arises formations.
Dependent on formations, arises consciousness.
Dependent on consciousness, arises mentality-materiality.
Dependent on mentality-materiality, arise the six-sense bases.
Dependent on the six-sense bases, arises contact.
Dependent on contact, arises feeling.
Dependent on feeling, arises craving.
Dependent on craving, arises clinging.
Dependent on clinging, arises the arranging of kamma.
Dependent on the arranging of kamma, arises birth.
Dependent on birth, arises aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair.
Thus, there is the arising of this whole mass of suffering.
Through the entire cessation of ignorance, formations cease.
Through the cessation of formations, consciousness ceases.
Through the cessation of consciousness, mentality-materiality ceases.
Through the cessation of mentality-materiality, the six-sense bases cease.
Through the cessation of the six-sense bases, contact ceases.
Through the cessation of contact, feeling ceases.
Through the cessation of feeling, craving ceases.
Through the cessation of craving, clinging ceases.
Through the cessation of clinging, the arranging of kamma ceases.
Through the cessation of the arranging of kamma, birth ceases.
Through the cessation of birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair ceases.
Thus, there is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering.
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
अविज्जा-पच्चया संखारा । संखार-पच्चया विज्ञाणं।
विज्ञाण-पच्चया नामरूपं । नामरूप-पच्चया सळायतनं।
सळायतन-पच्चया फस्सो । फस्स-पच्चया वेदना।
वेदना-पच्चया तण्हा । तण्हा-पच्चया उपादानं।
उपादान-पच्चया भवो । भव-पच्चया जाति।
जाति-पच्चया जरामरणं-सोक-परिदेव-दुक्ख-दोमनस्सुपायासा सम्भवन्ति।
एवमेतस्स केवलस्स दुक्खक्खन्धस्स समुदयो होति।
अविज्जाय त्वेव असेस विराग-निरोधा संखार-निरोधो । संखार-निरोधा विज्ञाण-निरोधो।
विज्ञाण-निरोधा नामरूप-निरोधो । नामरूप-निरोधा सळायतन-निरोधो।
सळायतन-निरोधा फस्स-निरोधो । फस्स-निरोधा वेदना-निरोधो।
वेदना-निरोधा तण्हा-निरोधो । तण्हा-निरोधा उपादान-निरोधो।
उपादान-निरोधा भव-निरोधो । भव-निरोधा जाति-निरोधो।
जाति-निरोधा जरामरणं-सोक-परिदेव-दुक्ख-दोमनस्सुपायासा निरुज्झन्ति।
एवमेतस्स केवलस्स दुक्खक्खन्धस्स निरोधो होति ति॥
Anekajāti Gāthā
anekajāti saṃsāraṃ । sandhāvissaṃ anibbisaṃ । gahakārakaṁ gavesanto । dukkhā jāti punappunaṃ।
gahakāraka diṭṭhosi । puna gehaṃ na kāhasi । sabbā te phāsukā bhaggā । gahakūṭaṃ visaṅkhataṃ । visaṅkhāra gataṃ cittaṃ । taṇhānaṃ khayamajjhagā॥
The Verses of the Buddha's Auspicious Victories, a short gāthā recited as a reminder of the
wandering in saṃsāra and the relief that comes when the house of craving is finally broken. The
verses recall the long round of rebirth and the turning point at which the householder is seen
and craving at last dissolves.
Source: Dhammapada 153-154 - SuttaCentral
Through many births I wandered in saṃsāra, seeking, but not finding the builder of this house, painful is repeated existence!
Householder, you are seen now, you must build no house again, your rafters are broken, and your ridge pole is shattered, to dissolution goes my mind, achieved is the destruction of craving.
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
अनेकजातिसंसारं । सन्धाविस्सं अनिब्बिसं । गहकारं गवेसन्तो । दुक्खा जाति पुनप्पुनं।
गहकारक दिट्ठोसि । पुन गेहं न काहसि । सब्बा ते फासुका भग्गा । गहकूटं विसङ्खतं । विसङ्खारगतं चित्तं । तण्हानं खयमज्झगा॥
Pratītyasamutpāda Gāthā
ye dharmā hetuprabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgata uvāca । teṣāṃ-ca yo nirodha evaṃvādi mahāśramaṇaḥ । ajñānāc cīyate karma janmanaḥ karma kāraṇam । jñānān na cīyate karma karmābhāvān na jāyate॥Pratītyasamutpāda Gāthā is the verse on dependent origination, the teaching that phenomena arise
from causes and conditions rather than independently. Dependent origination can be contrasted
with the classic Western concept of
causation, in which an action by one
thing is said to cause a change in another; instead it sees the change as arising from many
factors - not one, not a few, but a whole web of conditions coming together. The teaching is
held throughout the Buddhist tradition to be the Buddha's most essential and foundational
teaching, associated with the Buddha's awakening and with the formula that seeing dependent
origination is seeing the teaching, and the verse is recited to contemplate cause and effect and
the possibility of cessation.
"yo paṭiccasamuppādaṁ passati so dhammaṁ passati; yo dhammaṁ passati so
paṭiccasamuppādaṁ passatī"ti.
"One who sees dependent origination sees the teaching. One who sees the
teaching sees dependent origination."
Source: Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta (MN 28) - SuttaCentral
"yo paṭiccasamuppādaṁ passati so dhammaṁ passati; yo dhammaṁ passati so paṭiccasamuppādaṁ passatī"ti.
"One who sees dependent origination sees the teaching. One who sees the teaching sees dependent origination."
Those dharmas which arise from a cause, the Tathāgata has declared their cause.
And that which is the cessation of them, thus the great renunciant (sramana) has taught.
Through ignorance, karma is accumulated, karma is the cause of (re)birth.
Through knowledge, karma is not accumulated, through absence of karma, one is not (re)born.
The additional verse is Southeast Asia specific (fifth century date) and does not have an equivalent in any Buddhist text, whether in the original Indic language or Tibetan or Chinese translation.
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- 𑖭𑖿𑖠𑖩𑖿-Siddhaṃ
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
- Pāli
- සිංහල-Sinhala
- 中文-Chinese
ये धर्मा हेतुप्रभवा हेतुं तेषां तथागत उवाच । तेषांच यो निरोध एवंवादी महाश्रमणः । अज्ञानाच्चीयते कर्म जन्मनः कर्म कारणम् । ज्ञानान्नचीयते कर्म कर्माभावान्न जायते॥𑖧𑖸 𑖠𑖨𑖿𑖦𑖯 𑖮𑖸𑖝𑖲𑖢𑖿𑖨𑖥𑖪𑖯 𑖮𑖸𑖝𑖲𑖽 𑖝𑖸𑖬𑖯𑖽 𑖝𑖞𑖯𑖐𑖝 𑖄𑖪𑖯𑖓 𑗂 𑖝𑖸𑖬𑖯𑖽𑖓 𑖧𑖺 𑖡𑖰𑖨𑖺𑖠 𑖊𑖪𑖽𑖪𑖯𑖟𑖱 𑖦𑖮𑖯𑖫𑖿𑖨𑖦𑖜𑖾 𑗂 𑖀𑖕𑖿𑖗𑖯𑖡𑖯𑖓𑖿𑖓𑖱𑖧𑖝𑖸 𑖎𑖨𑖿𑖦 𑖕𑖡𑖿𑖦𑖡𑖾 𑖎𑖨𑖿𑖦 𑖎𑖯𑖨𑖜𑖦𑖿 𑗂 𑖕𑖿𑖗𑖯𑖡𑖯𑖡𑖿𑖡𑖓𑖱𑖧𑖝𑖸 𑖎𑖨𑖿𑖦 𑖎𑖨𑖿𑖦𑖯𑖥𑖯𑖪𑖯𑖡𑖿𑖡 𑖕𑖯𑖧𑖝𑖸𑗃ཡེ་དྷ་རྨཱ་ཧེ་ཏུ་པྲ་བྷ་བཱ་ཧེ་ཏུཾ་ཏེ་ཥཱཾ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་ཨུ་བཱ་ཙ། ཏེ་ཥཱཾ་ཙ་ཡོ་ནི་རོ་དྷ་ཨེ་བཾ་བཱ་དཱི་མ་ཧཱ་ཤྲ་མ་ཎཿ༎ye dhammā hetuppabhavā hetuṁ tesaṁ tathāgato uvāca । tesañ-ca yo nirodho evaṁvādī mahāsamaṇo । aññāṇaṁ cīyate kammaṁ jananaṁ kammakāraṇaṁ । ñāṇaṁ na cīyate kammaṁ kammābhāvaṁ na jāyate෴යේ ධර්මා හේතුප්රභවා හේතුං තේෂාං තථාගත උවාච . තේෂාංච යෝ නිරෝධ ඒවංවාදී මහාශ්රමණඃ . අඥානාච්චීයතේ කර්ම ජන්මනඃ කර්ම කාරණම් . ඥානාන්නචීයතේ කර්ම කර්මාභාවාන්න ජායතේ෴耶 達摩 訶圖缽婆婆 訶敦 提舍 達多伽多 烏嚩左 · 提舍拶 友 尼囉陀 伊縛婆提 摩訶沙門那。Vairocana Sarvakatāḍanavidhiḥ
oṃ sūkṣme sūkṣme same samaye śānte dānte samārope anālambe tarambe yaśovati mahāteje nirākulanirvāṇe sarvabuddhādhiṣṭhānādhiṣṭhite svāhā॥The central purpose of this ordinance is the invocation of Sarvavid Vairocana - the
'All-Knowing' form of the Buddha Vairocana - who
embodies the omniscient, purifying wisdom of the
Dharmakāya. In
Vajrayāna Buddhism, Sarvavid Vairocana is revered as
the cosmic Buddha whose practice purifies negative karma, averts lower rebirths, and restores
clarity to beings obscured by afflictions. Originating from the Sarvadurgati Pariśodhana
Tantra, this ritual cycle centers on the 37-deity maṇḍala of Vairocana and is traditionally
performed for purification, healing, and guiding the deceased. As the personification of
complete enlightenment, Sarvavid Vairocana represents the ultimate reason and foundation for the
entire rite.
Source: The Tantra Purifying Bad Rebirths - 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
ॐ सूक्ष्मे सूक्ष्मे समे समये शान्ते दान्ते समारोपे अनालम्बे तरम्बे यशोवति महातेजे निराकुलनिर्व्वाणे सर्व्वबुद्धाधिष्ठानाधिष्ठिते स्वाहा॥Ratnadhvaja Parikrama Dhāraṇī
oṃ ratne ratne mahāratne ratnavijaye svāhā॥The Ratnadhvaja Parikrama Dhāraṇī is the
circumambulation
dhāraṇī, whose name joins ratna (jewel), dhvaja
(banner), and parikrama (circumambulation); its mantra is
oṃ ratne ratne mahāratne ratnavijaye svāhā. It is recited as one walks clockwise around a
stupa, image, or sacred seat, so that each step gathers the heart toward the awakened object of
veneration.
oṃ ratne ratne mahāratne ratnavijaye svāhā. It is recited as one walks clockwise around a
stupa, image, or sacred seat, so that each step gathers the heart toward the awakened object of
veneration.- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
ॐ रत्ने रत्ने महारत्ने रत्नविजये स्वाहा॥Vimala Uṣṇīṣa
oṃ namastryadhvikānāṃ । sarva tathāgata hṛdaya garbhe । jvāla jvāla । dharmadhātu garbhe । saṁbhara mama āyuḥ saṃśodhaya mama sarva pāpaṁ । sarva tathāgata samanta uṣṇīṣa vimale viśuddhe । hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ । aṁ vaṁ saṁ jaḥ svāhā॥The Vimala Uṣṇīṣa, or Stainless Uṣṇīṣa, is a mantra recited for deep purification and the
removal of heavy negative karma, and is widely regarded in
Mahāyāna and
Vajrayāna traditions as one of the most powerful
dhāraṇīs for consecration. Its name joins vimala, meaning stainless, with uṣṇīṣa, the crown
protuberance of a buddha, and it is also known as the Great Wisdom Vimaloṣṇīṣa Dhāraṇī. It is
praised for its ability to purify even the five extremely negative karmas upon hearing, and is
traditionally used to bless and consecrate sacred images, environments, and stūpas.
Historical evidence from sites such as
Ratnagiri shows that copies of this dhāraṇī
were placed inside stūpas for centuries, reflecting its
long-standing role in Buddhist consecration practice. The Vimaloṣṇīṣa text itself states that
inserting this dhāraṇī into a stūpa generates merit equivalent to filling it with the relics of
countless Buddhas, making it one of the most revered dhāraṇīs for empowering and sanctifying
holy objects.
Source: The Dhāraṇī, "The Stainless Uṣṇīṣa" - 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- 𑖭𑖿𑖠𑖩𑖿-Siddhaṃ
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
ॐ नमस्त्र्यध्विकानां । सर्वतथागता हृदय गर्भे । ज्वल ज्वल । धर्मधातु गर्भे । सांभारा मम आयु संशोधय मम सर्व पापं । सर्व तथागत समन्त उष्णीष विमले विशुद्धे । हूँ हूँ हूँ हूँ । अं वं सं जः स्वाहा॥𑖌𑖼 𑖡𑖦𑖭𑖿𑖝𑖿𑖨𑖿𑖧𑖠𑖿𑖪𑖰𑖎𑖯𑖡𑖯𑖽 𑗂 𑖭𑖨𑖿𑖪𑖝𑖞𑖯𑖐𑖝𑖯 𑖮𑖴𑖟𑖧 𑖐𑖨𑖿𑖥𑖸 𑗂 𑖕𑖿𑖪𑖩 𑖕𑖿𑖪𑖩 𑗂 𑖠𑖨𑖿𑖦𑖠𑖯𑖝𑖲 𑖐𑖨𑖿𑖥𑖸 𑗂 𑖭𑖯𑖽𑖥𑖯𑖨𑖯 𑖦𑖦 𑖁𑖧𑖲 𑖭𑖽𑖫𑖺𑖠𑖧 𑖦𑖦 𑖭𑖨𑖿𑖪 𑖢𑖯𑖢𑖽 𑗂 𑖭𑖨𑖿𑖪 𑖝𑖞𑖯𑖐𑖝 𑖭𑖦𑖡𑖿𑖝 𑖄𑖬𑖿𑖜𑖱𑖬 𑖪𑖰𑖦𑖩𑖸 𑖪𑖰𑖫𑖲𑖟𑖿𑖠𑖸 𑗂 𑖮𑖳𑖼 𑖮𑖳𑖼 𑖮𑖳𑖼 𑖮𑖳𑖼 𑗂 𑖀𑖽 𑖪𑖽 𑖭𑖽 𑖕𑖾 𑖭𑖿𑖪𑖯𑖮𑖯𑗃ༀ་ན་མ་སྟྲྱ་དྷྭི་ཀཱ་ནཱཾ། སརྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏཱ་ཧྲྀ་ད་ཡ་ག་རྦྷེ། ཛྭ་ལ་ཛྭ་ལ། དྷ་རྨ་དྷཱ་ཏུ་ག་རྦྷེ། སཱཾ་བྷཱ་རཱ་མ་མ་ཨཱ་ཡུ་སཾ་ཤོ་དྷ་ཡ་མ་མ་སརྦ་པཱ་པཾ། སརྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་ས་མ་ནྟ་ཨུ་ཥྞཱི་ཥ་བི་མ་ལེ་བི་ཤུ་དྡྷེ། ཧཱུྃ་ཧཱུྃ་ཧཱུྃ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨཾ་བཾ་སཾ་ཛཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ༎Cakṣu Unmīlana
oṃ jñāna cakṣu praveśāya phaṭ॥Cakṣu Unmīlana, the opening of the
eyes, is a brief rite of consecration
in which the awakened gaze of a sacred image is established, inviting the wisdom beings to dwell
within it. In the Tibetan consecration sequence, the rite follows the bathing and empowerment of
the object.
Those who behold the image are said thereby to meet the awakened mind directly.
Source: Consecration Series - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
ॐ ज्ञान चक्षु प्रवेशय फट्॥ཨོཾ་ཛྙཱ་ན་ཙཀྵུ་པྲ་ཝེ་ཤ་ཡ་ཕཊ྄་ཀྱིས་སྤྱན་དབྱེ༎Pañcajñāna
oṃ āḥ hūṃ svāhā॥Pañcajñāna, the five wisdoms, is a Mahāyāna and
Vajrayāna schema describing the awakened mind. The set comprises the mirror-like, the
equanimous, the discriminating, the all-accomplishing, and the dharmadhātu wisdoms - also
rendered as the wisdom of equality, discerning wisdom, all-accomplishing wisdom, and the wisdom
of dharmadhātu. A short mantra, oṃ āḥ hūṃ svāhā, is recited as a
condensation of these five aspects, a short prayer that gathers the mind into the fullness of
the awakened view.
Source: The Five Wisdoms - Lotsawa House
oṃ āḥ hūṃ svāhā, is recited as a
condensation of these five aspects, a short prayer that gathers the mind into the fullness of
the awakened view.- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
ॐ आः हूँ स्वाहा॥ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༎Abhiṣekapūjā
oṃ sarva tathāgata mahāpūja pratīccha hoḥ । oṃ puruṣāya hoḥ॥The prayer of empowerment is here
offered as a gift to the sacred objects of
practice. Offering the prayer in this way presents the empowerment itself as an act of
generosity directed towards those objects, which are honoured as the supports of practice.
Source: Empowerment Series - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
ॐ भगवं सर्वतथागत परमपूजा प्रतीच्छ होः । ॐ पुरुषाय होः॥ཨོཾ་སརྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་མ་ཧཱ་པཱུཛ་པྲ་ཏཱི་ཙྪ་ཧོཿས་མཆོད། ན་མོ་པུ་རུ་ཤ་ཡ་ཧོཿས་བསྟོད༎Supratiṣṭha
- The left hand is held above the items being blessed, palm facing downward, with the thumb pressing the little finger.
- The right hand is held below the items being blessed, palm facing upward, with the thumb pressing the little finger.
oṃ guru buddha bodhisattva dharmapāla saparivāra ejati jaḥ hūṃ baṃ hoḥ । oṃ supratiṣṭha vajraye svāhā॥A request for the deities and their retinues
to remain present. In Vajrayāna consecration rituals,
this mantra is recited to invite the wisdom beings to approach a sacred object - such as a
statue, stūpa, or painting - and to maintain a supportive presence. It creates a connection with
their awakened qualities so the object can serve as a source of inspiration, protection, and
practice.
Source: Consecration Series - Lotsawa House
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
ॐ गुरु बुद्ध बोधिसत्त्व धर्मपाल सपरिवार एजति जः हूं बं होः । ॐ सुप्रतिष्ठ वज्रये स्वाहा॥ཨོཾ་གུ་རུ་བུདྡྷཱ་བོ་དྷི་ས་ཏྭ་དྷརྨ་པཱ་ལ་ས་པ་རི་ཝཱ་ར་ཨེ་ཧྱ་ཧི་ཛཿཧཱུྃ་བྃ་ཧོཿ། ཨོཾ་སུ་པྲ་ཏིཥྛ་བཛྲ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༎Puṇya Pariṇāmanā
Merit dedication (in our own words).
Svastigāthā
rab dze ser zhun tzeg pä'i lhun po la।
nam mang rin ch'en tsog kyi tr'a kö tar।
ta wä mi ngom ku zug ch'og di d'ag।
si thäi bar du tän par zhug su söl।
mi gyur lhun po ku yi tra shi shog।
yan lag dr'ug chu sung gi tra shi shog।
tha' dr'äl d'on d'am thug kyi tra shi shog।
gyäl wa'i ku sung thug kyi tra shi shog॥
Verses of Auspiciousness.
Like an assortment of many types of jewels,
Set in the Meru of layers of exquisite refined gold,
May these supreme holy bodily forms, that we can view insatiably,
Remain firmly until the end of existence.
May there be the auspiciousness of the immutable-Meru holy body.
May there be the auspiciousness of the sixty branches of holy speech.
May there be the auspiciousness of the limitless ultimate holy mind.
May there be the auspiciousness of the Conqueror's holy body, speech and mind.
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
རབ་མཛེས་གསེར་ཞུན་བརྩེགས་པའི་ལྷུན་པོ་ལ།
རྣམ་མང་རིན་ཆེན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཕྲ་བཀོད་ལྟར།
ལྟ་བས་མི་ངོམས་སྐུ་གཟུགས་མཆོག་འདི་ལ།
སྲིད་མཐའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་པར་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ།
མི་འགྱུར་ལྷུན་པོ་སྐུ་ཡི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག།
ཡན་ལག་དྲུག་ཅུ་གསུང་གི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག།
མཐའ་བྲལ་དོན་དམ་གས་ཀི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག།
རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག༎
Prārthanāsiddhiḥ
pañcendriyāvabodhanīye svāhā । jaya jaya sujaya॥Prārthanāsiddhiḥ translates as 'fulfillment of aspiration' and names a mantra for awakening the
faculties and accomplishing one's aspirations - recited at the close of a practice to seal the
heart's intention and align the mind with what is being sought. Its Sanskrit phrase invokes the
awakening of the five faculties, and it is held to align the mind with what is being sought and
to bring aspirations to accomplishment.
- संस्कृतम्-Sanskrit
- བོད་སྐད་-Tibetan
पञ्चेन्द्रियावबोधनीये स्वहा । जय जय सुजय॥པཉྩནྡྲི་ཡ་ཨ་ཝ་བོ་དྷ་ན་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། ཛ་ཡ་ཛ་ཡ་སུ་ཛ་ཡ༎