ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿ་རཱ་པ་ཙ་ན་དྷཱིཿ
Mañjuśrī Mantra
文殊菩薩心咒
Mañjuśrī (文殊師利)
The Mantra 真言原文
Tibetan Script
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿ་རཱ་པ་ཙ་ན་དྷཱིཿ
Romanization
Om Ah Ra Pa Tsa Na Dhi
Sanskrit
Oṃ Āḥ Rā Pa Ca Na Dhīḥ
Chinese 漢音
嗡啊日阿巴阿紮那德
Meaning 意義
Om Ah: the seed syllables of emptiness and speech. Ra Pa Tsa Na: a Sanskrit acrostic encoding 'The nature of all phenomena is beyond arising and ceasing.' Dhih: the seed syllable of Mañjuśrī — discriminating wisdom, the mind of a bodhisattva
Ritual Use & Practice 修持法門
Recited to sharpen intelligence, develop wisdom, improve memory, and clear mental obscurations. Students recite before examinations or study. Dharma teachers recite before giving teachings. The seed syllable Dhih (alone) is used in quick daily recitation.
Background & Significance 背景與意義
Mañjuśrī (Tib: Jampelyang; Ch: 文殊師利) is the Bodhisattva of Wisdom — one of the eight great Bodhisattvas and the patron deity of all those engaged in study and scholarly practice. He is depicted as a golden-yellow youth holding the flaming sword of wisdom (to cut through ignorance) in his right hand and the Prajnaparamita Sutra (Perfection of Wisdom) in his left, seated on a blue lotus. His sword cuts the root of all suffering — the fundamental ignorance that mistakes impermanent, dependently arisen phenomena for solid, inherent existence. Mañjuśrī is considered the living embodiment of the wisdom of all Buddhas. Sakya Pandita and Je Tsongkhapa were both considered human manifestations of Mañjuśrī. The seed syllable Dhih alone is powerful enough for continuous recitation practice.
At a Glance
- Syllable Count
- 8
- Deity
- Mañjuśrī (Jampelyang)
- Category
- Mañjuśrī (文殊師利)
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