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A Vessel on a White Lotus · Amoghapāśa

Amoghapāśa Dhāraṇī · a continuous excerpt on the lotus, vase and its contents

In the maṇḍala’s centre draw an eight-petalled white lotus. Then prepare an immaculate vase made of gold, silver or copper. Alternatively, it is also permissible to use a newly made, spotless clay, dark in colour. Fill the vase with fragrant water and add the five precious substances, five medicines, and five grains.

Tibetan text

དབུས་སུ་ཡང་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་འདབ་མ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཅིག་བྲིས་ལ། གསེར་དངུལ་ལམ་ཟངས་ཀྱི་བུམ་པ་མ་ཞུམ་པ། མི་འཇིག་པའམ། ཁམ་པའི་བུམ་པ་སར་པ་སོ་བཏང་བའི་ནག་པོ་དང་ར་རི་མེད་པ་གཅིག་སྤོས་ཆུས་བཀང་སྟེ། རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་ལྔ།སྨན་སྣ་ལྔ། འབྲུ་སྣ་ལྔ་བླུགས་ལ།

Reading notes

The surrounding text describes preparations for a ritual. Before this excerpt, a square maṇḍala with four gates is drawn; the lotus and vessel are then prepared. Visualisation of Avalokiteśvara, offerings and recitation of the dhāraṇī follow. The text associates the rite with removing obstacles and providing protection.

A continuous quotation from Stefan Mang / Samye Translations (2023), published by Lotsawa House, with the corresponding Tibetan excerpt below. Russian translates this English passage; the noun “vase”, implicit in the English clay phrase, is supplied in brackets. This is part of the preparation for a rite, not the entire dhāraṇī. The excerpt’s scope is stated above. The Russian rendering has not received independent Tibetan philological review. Source and English translation: CC BY-NC 4.0; Russian is an adaptation.

Open source ↗ (https://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/amoghapasha-dharani)

Lotsawa House · Tibetan / Stefan Mang, 2023 (https://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/amoghapasha-dharani)

CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

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