Tibetan Buddhist Prayer-Mantra to Manjusri for Esoteric Knowledge and Wisdom
Tibetan Buddhist Prayer-Mantra to Manjusri for Esoteric Knowledge and Wisdom I solemnly prostrate to the Lama and the Protector Manjusri Whose knowledge, devoid of the clouds of the two obscurations, Is very pure and clear as the sun. He holds the book before his mind, So that all beings may see exactly all subtle meanings, For those persons imprisoned in the darkness of ignorance, confused and troubled in suffering. From compassion for all, the one Son expounds in sixty kinds of eloquent speech. His thundering Dharma voice awakens all from sleepiness, Releasing them from the iron chains of passion. Holding the Sword of Wisdom, he clears away the suffering and obscurations. Pure from the first, after passing through the ten stages All become the body of the victorious Son, Clearing away 112 kinds of mental obscurations. To Manjusri I pay homage. (repeat this prayer 3, 7, 21 or as many times as you are able) OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHI (repeat the mantra as...