The Benefits of the Śākyamuni Buddha Mantra
TADYATHĀ/ OṂ MUNE MUNE MAHĀMUNAYE SVĀHĀ
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Erick Tsiknopoulos
Erick Tsiknopoulos (b. 1981) is an American translator of Tibetan, a scholar, researcher and postgraduate student in Buddhist Studies, a teacher and tutor of Tibetan language, a writer and editor, a voracious reader in various subjects, and an experienced world traveler. He is the founder and primary Tibetan translator of the Sugatagarbha Translation Group, and the creator of their main website, Tibetan-Translations.com, which currently features English translations of over 400 Tibetan texts. Many of his translations have been published in various forms, including as books.
He has been a student of Buddhism since 1999, a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 2003, and a student of Tibetan language since 2005. He has been translating Tibetan texts into English since 2007, has been based in India and Nepal studying Tibetan language and Buddhism intensively and translating Tibetan texts since 2008, and has been working professionally as a Tibetan-English translator and interpreter since 2009.
He is available for contact via email at: EmptyElephant@yahoo.com and SugatagarbhaTranslations@gmail.com
Birthday Endowed with Fivefold Abundance: A Birthday Praise for Rigdzin Yangchen Lhamo, by Tsangpa Tulku Rigchok Rinpoché
འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ལྔ་ལྡན།
Birthday Endowed with Fivefold Abundance:
A Birthday Praise for Rigdzin Yangchen Lhamo
Tibetan title: ‘khrungs skar phun tshogs lnga ldan
By Tsangpa Tulku Rigchok Rinpoché
(gtsang pa sprul sku rig mchog rin po che)
Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos
The Dhāraṇī of the Blazing Uṣṇīṣa
།ན་མཿ ས་མནྟ་བུདྡྷ་ནཱཾ། ཨ་པྲ་ཏི་ཧ་ཏ་ཤཱ་ས་ནཱ་ནཱཾ། ཨོཾ་ཁ་ཁ། ཁཱ་ཧི་ཁཱ་ཧི། ཧཱུཾ་ཧཱུཾ།ཛྭ་ལ་ཛྭ་ལ། པྲ་ཛྭ་ལ་པྲ་ཛྭ་ལ། ཏིཥྛ་ཏིཥྛ། ཕཊ་ཕཊ། སརྦ་དུ་ར་ནི་མི་དྷི་དུ་སྭཱཧཱ། ཤིནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱཧཱ།
NAMAḤ SAMANTA BUDDHANĀṂ/ APRATIHATA ŚĀSANĀNĀṂ/ OṂ KHA KHA/ KHĀHI KHĀHI/ HŪṂ HŪṂ/ JVALA JVALA/ PRAJVALA PRAJVALA/ TIṢṬHA TIṢṬHA/ PHAṬ PHAṬ/ SARVA DURANI MIDHIDU SVĀHĀ/ ŚANTIṂ KURU SVĀHĀ
The Name Mantra and Supplication for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Please bestow the spiritual attainments (siddhi) of the Awakened Body, Speech and Mind of the Guru, the Vajradhara, the Reverend Lord, Jampel Ngakwang Lozang Yéshey Tendzin Gyatso Pelzangpo (His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama).
Ornament for Bringing Joy to the Faithful: A Syllable-by-Syllable Commentary for Dispelling Doubts Regarding the Name Mantra of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, by Géshe Ngagi Wangchuk
OṂ ĀḤ GURU VAJRADHARA BHAṬṬĀRAKA MAÑJUŚRĪ VĀGINDRA SUMATI JÑĀNA ŚĀSANADHARA SAMUDRA ŚRĪBHADRA SARVA SIDDHI HŪṂ HŪṂ
The Wish-Fulfilling Reliquary Box: Advice from Orgyen Drölma (the Mother of Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché)
The Wish-Fulfilling Reliquary Box: Advice from Orgyen Drölma (the Mother of Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché) by Orgyen Drölma (o rgyan sgrol ma) Tibetan title: o rgyan sgrol ma’i zhal gdams yid bzhin nor bu’i ga’u Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos ན་མོ་གུ་རུ་ཨཱརྱ་ཏཱ་ར་ཡེ། NAMO GURU ĀRYA TĀRAYE. དལ་འབྱོར་མི་རྟག་དགེ་སྡིག་ལས།། The freedoms and advantages, impermanence, virtuous and harmful karma: བསླུ་མེད་ངེས་ཤེས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།། The precious certainty of their inexorability; ཡང་ཡང་དྲན་ཤེས་བག་ཡོད་ངང་།། In the state of mindful understanding and careful concern, ངེས་འབྱུང་མ་སྐྱེས་བར་དུ་འབོད།། Put all your strength, until renunciation is born. བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ་དགའ་བ་དང།། Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy,… Read more The Wish-Fulfilling Reliquary Box: Advice from Orgyen Drölma (the Mother of Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché) →
Uṣṇīṣa of the Garuḍa, King of Birds: A Long Life Prayer for Émaho Rinpoché (Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché)
Uṣṇīṣa of the Garuḍa, King of Birds: A Long Life Prayer for Émaho Rinpoché (Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché) Tibetan title: e ma ho rin po che zhabs brtan bya… Read more Uṣṇīṣa of the Garuḍa, King of Birds: A Long Life Prayer for Émaho Rinpoché (Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché) →
Ocean of Offering Clouds Raining Down Good Fortune: A Ritual for the Sanctifying Smoke Offering (Sang), by the 4th Panchen Lama, Lobzang Chökyi Gyeltsen
Tibetan title: bsangs chog bkra shis char ‘bebs mchod sprin rgya mtsho zhes bya ba zhugs so
by the 4th Panchen Lama, Lobzang Chökyi Gyeltsen (AKA Panchen Lobzang Chögyen, 1570-1662)
Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 28 – The Praise to All Tathāgatas
Chapter 28: The Praise to All Tathāgatas Then the Bodhisattva Ruciraketu rose from his seat, placed his upper robe over one shoulder, planted his right knee on the ground, bowed toward the Bhagavān with folded palms; and thereupon praised the Bhagavān deeply with these verses: Lord of Sages, you are adorned by hundreds of meritorious characteristics, And thousands of glorious beautiful qualities. Of exquisite appearance, you manifest supreme peace; And your light is like a thousand suns, streaming forth in all directions. Blazing with brilliant beams of light, You… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 28 – The Praise to All Tathāgatas →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 27 – The Praise Made by All the Bodhisattvas
Chapter 27: The Praise Made by All the Bodhisattvas Then those many hundreds of thousands of Bodhisattvas went to where the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnakaracchatrakuta was; and having gone there, they bowed their heads at the feet of the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnakaracchatrakuta, and sat down to one side. Then, having sat down to one side, those many hundreds of thousands of Bodhisattvas folded their palms, and deeply praised the Tathāgata Suvarṇaratnakaracchatrakuta with these verses: “The supreme body of the Conqueror resembles refined gold; An exalted form totally imbued with the color of… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 27 – The Praise Made by All the Bodhisattvas →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 21 – Excellent Manifestation
Chapter 21: Excellent Manifestation (legs par byung ba’i le’u) (Volume Nine) Then, at that moment, the Bhagavān gave teaching in these verses: Whenever I became a world-turning king, At those times I offered the earth with its oceans, And even its four continents, filled with precious things, To all Jinas of the past. In all-encompassing search for the Dharmakāya, There were no things, not previously dear and treasured, Which I did not give away; During numerous eons, I even gave away my treasured body. Once I did this, inconceivably… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 21 – Excellent Manifestation →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 19 – Samjñāya, Lord of Yakṣas
Chapter 19: Samjñāya, Lord of Yakṣas Then the supreme commander of the Yakṣas, Samjñāya, along with twenty-eight great Yakṣa generals, rose from his seat; and putting his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee. Bowing with folded palms toward the Bhagavān, he addressed the Bhagavān in the following words: “Lord Bhagavān, now and in future times, in whatever villages, cities, towns, valleys, monastery regions, hilly medicinal valleys or palace areas where this Sovereign King of Sūtra Teachings, the Transcendent Golden Light appears, Lord Bhagavān, I, Samjñāya, the supreme commander… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 19 – Samjñāya, Lord of Yakṣas →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 18 – The Earth Goddess, Dṛḍhā
Chapter 18: The Earth Goddess, Dṛḍhā Then the Earth Goddess, Dṛḍhā, addressed the Bhagavān in the following words:“Lord Bhagavān, now and in the future, wherever this Sovereign King of Sūtra Teachings, the Transcendent Golden Light exists, whether in towns, cities, villages, valleys, in the vicinities of monasteries, mountain medicinal valleys, or towns which abide in the areas of palaces, I, the Earth Goddess Dṛḍhā, will go to those cities, villages, valleys, vicinities of monasteries, mountain medicinal valleys, or palace areas.” “Lord Bhagavān, wherever this Sovereign King of Sūtra Teachings, the Transcendent… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 18 – The Earth Goddess, Dṛḍhā →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 17 – Vast Increase in Wealth by the Great Goddess Śrī
Photo by Fancycrave.com on Pexels.com Chapter 17: Vast Increase in Wealth by the Great Goddess Śrī Then the Goddess Mahāśrī spoke the following words to the Bhagavān:“Bhagavān, I dwell not far from here in the northern direction, in the retinue of the palace of Vaiśravaṇa, the Heavenly World called ‘Interwoven’, in the transcendent pleasure garden called ‘Flower Light of Positive Potential’; in the mansion made of the seven precious materials called ‘Golden Victory Banner of the Golden Transcendent Lotus’.” “All those who wish to increase their stock of… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 17 – Vast Increase in Wealth by the Great Goddess Śrī →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 16 – The Goddess Śrī
Chapter 16: The Goddess Śrī Then the Great Goddess Śrī spoke the following words to the Bhagavān: “Lord Bhagavān, always and ever, I, the Great Goddess Śrī, shall bring an abundance of all necessary items to the monk who expounds the Dharma. He will have freedom from busy work and poverty, attain an expansive mind; and have a blissful mind, day and night. Coming to an authentic understanding of all the various words and syllables of this Sovereign King of Sūtra Teachings, the Transcendent Golden Light, he will realize them in full,… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 16 – The Goddess Śrī →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 14 – The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Dhāraṇī
Chapter 14: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Dhāraṇī Then the Bhagavān gave this teaching to the Venerable Ānanda: “Ānanda, all lightning is warded off by you [oneself]. All previous Samyaksaṃbuddhas, appearing individually, one following the other, have taught this; and so I, too, shall now explain it. Please bear it in mind.” “Ānanda, in the eastern direction, there is the lightning known as Approaching. Ānanda, in the southern direction is the lightning known as Hundred Voices. Ānanda, in the western direction is the lightning known as Equal Light; and Ānanda, in… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 14 – The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Dhāraṇī →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 13 – The Dhāraṇī of Non-Attachment
Chapter 13: The Dhāraṇī of Non-Attachment The Bhagavān then gave this teaching to the Venerable Śāradvatiputra:“Śāradvatiputra, it is a fact that this Dharma Discourse known as ‘The Dhāraṇī of Non-Attachment’ is the mother of Bodhisattvas who meditate on all Dharmas, is the preliminary conduct of the Bodhisattvas; and is thoroughly retained by the Bodhisattvas.” He spoke those words, and the Venerable Śāradvatiputra replied to the Bhagavān as follows: “Bhagavān, as for the so-called “Dhāraṇī”, if it does not abide in an objective field, and indeed does not abide in a… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 13 – The Dhāraṇī of Non-Attachment →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 11 – The Meticulous Observation of Gods and Humans By the Four Great Kings
Chapter 11: The Meticulous Observation of Gods and Humans By the Four Great Kings Then the Great King Vaiśravaṇa, the Great King Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the Great King Virūḍhaka, and the Great King Virūpākṣa rose from their seats, put their upper robes over one shoulder, kneeled placing their right knee on the ground, bowed with joined palms in the direction of the Bhagavān; and spoke to the Bhagavān in the following words: “Lord Bhagavān, as for this Sovereign King of Sūtra Teachings, the Transcendent Golden Light, it is spoken by all Tathāgatas. It… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 11 – The Meticulous Observation of Gods and Humans By the Four Great Kings →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 9 – Voidness
Chapter 9: Voidness Then after the Bhagavān had taught that Dhāraṇī, for the benefit and happiness of those assembled retinues of Bodhisattva Mahāsattavas, gods, humans and so on, in order to demonstrate the characteristics of voidness, the ultimate truth, at that time he spoke the following verses: In inconceivably many other Sūtras, I have thoroughly and extensively explained empty phenomena; And so, in this most excellent of Transcendent Sūtras, I will describe empty phenomena only in brief. Sentient beings of small intellect, intensely ignorant, Cannot understand all things; And… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 9 – Voidness →
The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 8 – The Dhāraṇī Called ‘Golden’
Chapter 8: The Dhāraṇī Called ‘Golden’ Then the Bhagavān gave teaching to the Bodhisattva Mahāsattva Sukhavihāra (‘Abiding in Bliss’), who was in that retinue, in the following words: “Good son, as for the Dhāraṇī called ‘Golden’, if any good son or good daughter wishes to render offering and service to all the past, present and future Buddhas, then they should uphold and retain this Dhāraṇī. Why is that so? Because this Dhāraṇī is the mother of the past, future and present Buddha Bhagavāns.” “Retaining this Dhāraṇī leads to vast increase… Read more The Sūtra of Golden Light: The 29 Chapter Version, Chapter 8 – The Dhāraṇī Called ‘Golden’ →
