Checking Mantras for Prayer Wheel

Checking Mantras for Prayer Wheel

Date Posted:
November 2009

A center director wrote to Rinpoche to say he was going to ask a monk to check various mantras to go in a prayer wheel. Rinpoche responded as follows.

Regarding the monk checking the different mantras and texts from the Kangyur for the prayer wheel, this is not possible. It's complicated to explain, but he should not do this. 

The only possibility is the Sanskrit scholar in Sarnath University, but even then it’s not so simple. It is not a matter of just checking the Tibetan, you have to have the correct version, you need to be expert in Sanskrit and expert in Tibetan, and to know which version of the text is most correct.

Some of the mantras, for instance the four powerful mantras (four Dharmakaya relic mantras), I have checked with four to five different versions of the same text, then checked with a mo. So, for instance, if the monk checked that against just one text, he would change all of that. This is just an example.