Tibetan Translations by Erick Tsiknopoulos
English Translations of Buddhist and other Tibetan texts by Erick Tsiknopoulos, professional Tibetan-English translator and author.
United embodiment of the compassion of all Victorious Ones,
Manifesting here and now as a Sublime One diligent in the vows;
Ensuring the establishment of the world in the splendor of peace and happiness:
I pray that the noble feet of the Sovereign of the Teachings, in their thorough completeness, remain firm.
If you are attached to this life, you are not a Dharma practitioner.
If you are attached to the Three Realms [of Saṃsāra], you do not have renunciation.
If you are attached to your own self-interest, you do not have Enlightenment Mind (bodhicitta).
If you engage in grasping, you do not have the View.
O Defender, through the light-lasso of your exalted understanding and love,
You ensure illumination of the good path which liberates all living beings;
And open the hundred gates to the ocean of benefit and happiness:
To the Sublime Yogin of the Great Perfection, I supplicate.
The Defender Amitāyus, the Deathless Padmasambhava,
Uṣṇīṣavijayā, White Tārā and the rest;
Through the blessings of the Vidyādhara Deity Assemblies of Longevity,
May the lifespan of the Glorious Guru be prolonged.
“When one finds oneself among any illnesses, whether arising from Vāta (wind, rlung), arising from Pitta (bile, mkhris pa), arising from Kapha (phlegm, bad kan), arising from Combined Illnesses (formed by a combination of Vāta, Pitta and/or Kapha, ‘dus pa), from possession by evil spirits, from affliction by contagions, or from drinking poison, for all of them, one should keep this in mind:
༑ན་མོ་བྷ་ག་བ་ཏེ། ཨིཊྚ་ཡ། ཨིནྡྲ་གོ་མི་སི་ཀཱ་ཡ། ཨཱ་ཤ་ནེ། པཱ་ཤ་ནེ། པཱ་པ་ནི་ཀུ་ལེ། ཀ་པི་ལ་མིཏྟེ། ཨི་ལི་ མི་ཏྟེ་སྭཱཧཱ།
NAMO BHAGAVATE/ IṬṬAYA/ INDRA GOMI SIKĀYA/ ĀŚANE/ PĀŚANE/ PĀPA NIKULE/ KAPILA MITTE/ ILI MITTE SVĀHĀ
“Lord of Secrets, Bhagavān,
So as to cure the suffering of sentient beings,
I shall teach a Knowledge Mantra;
Through it, suffering is eliminated and happiness is gained.
If one wishes to complete the Two Great Collections [of merit and wisdom],
For the sake of guarding one’s own body, this Knowledge Mantra
Should be recited and thoroughly retained.”
“…If one recites [the Dhāraṇī] over some water filled into the palm of one’s hand, drinks it, and then goes to sleep while contemplating it, then Vajrapāṇi will reveal dreams.”
ཨཱཿ
ĀḤ
The Innermost Essence of the Noble Mañjuśrī’s Tantra (Mañjuśrī-nāma-saṃgīti), A Treasure Teaching (gTerma) of Guru Chöwang, Chökyi Wangchuk
GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAṂGATE BODHIYE SVĀHĀ
SARVA TATHĀGATA HṚDAYA ANUGATE/ OṂ KURUṂGINI SVĀHĀ
OṂ MUNE MUNE MAHĀMUNEYE SVĀHĀ/ PRAJÑĀ-PĀRAMITAYE SVĀHĀ
TADYATHĀ/ HRISATE SMRITE JAYE VIJAYE SVĀHĀ
The Heart-Essence Dhāraṇī of the Prajñā-pāramitā Sūtra in 100,000 Lines, A Treasure Teaching (gTerma) of Guru Chöwang, Chökyi Wangchuk
TADYATHĀ/ OṂ PRAJÑE PRAJÑE MAHĀPRAJÑE SARVA BHARE/ PRAJÑĀ SARVA JÑENA DUNTARI PRAJÑĀ PRETA/ SASAKARE SIKARE SIKASITE/ BHU DHU BHU DHU/ KAMBHA/ KAMBHA/ BHU DHU BHU DHU/ SARA SARA/ DHARA DHARA/ PARA PARA/ GARJA GARJA/ GARJAYA TIṂDE SVĀHĀ
་ལྟར་མ་བཅོས་སྒེག་ལྡན་མཛེས་མའི་ཚུལ།།
Outwardly, you are one with the beautiful manner of unfabricated grace,
ནང་དུ་མ་བཅོས་ཤེས་རབ་འཕགས་མའི་ལྷ།།
Inwardly, you are a Noble Goddess of unfabricated Discerning Insight,
གསང་བ་མ་བཅོས་རིག་འཛིན་ཌཀྐིའི་རྗེ།།
Secretly, you are the Queen of the Ḍākinīs, an unfabricated Vidyādhara:
གསུམ་ལྡན་མཁའ་འགྲོ་དབྱངས་ཅན་ལྷ་མོར་འདུད།།
To the Threefold Ḍākinī, Yangchen Lhamo, I deeply bow.
ཨེ་མ་ཧོ།།
É-MA-HO
How marvelous!
“Good son, as all phenomena are of equal nature, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of equal nature. As all phenomena are of ceaseless nature, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of ceaseless nature. As all phenomena are devoid of definitive characteristics [‘signless’], the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is devoid of definitive characteristics. As all phenomena are devoid of arising, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is devoid of arising. As all phenomena are devoid of ending, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is devoid of ending. As all phenomena are devoid of coming, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is devoid of coming. As all phenomena are of the nature of being devoid of going, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of the nature of being devoid of going. As all phenomena are devoid of permanence, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of the nature of being devoid of permanence. As all phenomena are of the nature of being devoid of separation [or inherent distinction], the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of the nature of being devoid of separation. As all phenomena are of the nature of singular significance [or ontological equivalence], the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of the nature of singular significance. As all phenomena are of the essential nature of insubtantiality [lacking substantial entity], the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight is of the essential nature of insubstantiality. In brief, as everything is beyond definitive characteristics, inherent existence, and the nature of identity, so is, to wit, the Transcendental Practice of Discerning Insight.”
“Meditate on insubstantiality as the fundamental essence;
Aspire for the cause of giving rise to Discerning Insight.
One must train in the meaning of Discerning Insight:
Which is free of all characteristics.”
Then, the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra was resting evenly in the Samādhi known as ‘Demonstrating the Non-Conceptuality of All Phenomena’. Through the power of that Samādhi, all the world-systems throughout the universe, equal [in number] to the number of subtle particles in all Buddha Fields, trembled. Thereupon, the Bhagavān touched his head with his hands toward the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra.
