ཨོཾ་ཤྲི་མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ་ཡ་ཧཱུྃ་ཕཊ།
Mahākāla Mantra
大黑天護法咒
Mahākāla (大黑天)
The Mantra 真言原文
Tibetan Script
ཨོཾ་ཤྲི་མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ་ཡ་ཧཱུྃ་ཕཊ།
Romanization
Om Shri Mahakala-ya Hung Phat
Sanskrit
Oṃ Śrī Mahākālāya Hūṃ Phaṭ
Chinese 漢音
嗡，斯日，瑪哈嘎拉雅，吽呸
Meaning 意義
Om Shri (auspicious) Mahakala (Great Black One / Great Time) — may all be accomplished and all obstacles destroyed! Hung Phat!
Ritual Use & Practice 修持法門
Invoked as the principal Dharma Protector in Kagyu and Sakya traditions; recited before practice sessions to clear obstacles, attract swift activity, and invoke protection. Also used in smoke offerings (lhasang), torma (ritual cake) offering ceremonies, and special protector rituals (drubchen).
Background & Significance 背景與意義
Mahākāla (Tib: Nagpo Chenpo — 'Great Black One') is the most important and widely propitiated Dharma Protector (Dharmapāla) in Tibetan Buddhism. He is a wrathful emanation of Avalokiteśvara (in most traditions) or of Vajrakilaya, whose terrifying form — black-blue, wearing a crown of skulls, holding a cleaver and skull cup — embodies the wrathful aspect of compassion that cuts through deception and obstacles without hesitation. There are many forms of Mahākāla: the two-armed Bernagchen is the principal protector of the Kagyu school; the six-armed Mahākāla is favoured by the Sakya; the four-armed Mahākāla guards the Gelug tradition. He is propitiated for swift accomplishment, overcoming enemies (internal and external), eliminating obstacles to Dharma practice, and cutting through neurotic patterns. The smoke offering to Mahākāla is a daily practice in most Tibetan monasteries.
At a Glance
- Syllable Count
- 9
- Deity
- Mahākāla (Bernagchen)
- Category
- Mahākāla (大黑天)
- School Tradition
- kagyu, sakya, nyingma
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