Various Mantras

Various Mantras

Benefiting Others with Namgyälma Mantra
Date of Advice:
January 2018
Date Posted:
June 2021

A student was taking the Namgyälma mantra to the top of a mountain to bless the area. Rinpoche offered this advice about the benefits of the mantra.

Namgyalma mantra board for blessing the ocean creatures, California, USA, Sept 2013.

My most dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling one,

If you can, also print Namgyälma mantras and laminate them and put them on the mountain, then the whole mountain becomes holy. Place them well, so they will not be taken by the wind. Then any insects that come on the mountain will be purified. It causes them to never be reborn in the lower realms and they will get a higher rebirth when they die. This is such a good thing to do, to help not only other people but also all the insects.

I think you have the Namgyälma protection (the folded one) that you keep on your body—not in your trouser pocket, but with a blessed string around your neck. Wearing that purifies the mind all the time and when you die, you will never be reborn in the lower realms.

If it’s kept in the house then any insects that come in the house, all their negative karma is purified, and when they die they won’t be reborn in the lower realms, but in the higher realms.

When someone dies, you can put the Namgyälma mantra on their body for some time. It’s very good, then their consciousness doesn’t go to the lower realm, they are purified. If you have some of the mantras you can use them for that, even for animals, dogs.

Especially if you have some in the car—we did have stickers (decals)—so if you put the Namgyälma mantra in the car, for example, if you put it on the roof, the ceiling of the car, then the whole car becomes holy and anybody who touches the car, their negative karma gets purified. The driver or anyone in the car gets purified and when they die, they won’t be reborn in the lower realms. When we drive, so many insects die, but if you have Namgyälma mantra in the car, even if the insects die they get a higher rebirth, so it’s unbelievable good to have the mantra in the car.

Please take care with bodhicitta.

With much love and prayers ...

[Read more about the Namgyälma mantra in Mandala magazine, August 2008 edn., and visit FPMT's Foundation Store to find Namgyälma products, including mantra stickers and amulets.]

Amoghapasha Mantra
Date of Advice:
February 2017
Date Posted:
September 2018

Rinpoche gave this advice about the benefits of the Amoghapasha mantra to a new student whose husband had recently passed away.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am very sorry for the long delay in replying to your email. I am sending you two photos of Amoghapasha. Until the sadhana is translated, please do three malas a day of the mantra of this deity.

OM PADMO USHNISHA VIMALE HUM PHAT

Think that from the deity, [who is one with] His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the guru, beams of light are sent to you and to the six-realm sentient beings with much compassion, purifying all the negative karma and obscurations collected from beginningless rebirths. At the end the deity melts in light and absorbs into you. Then you become the deity, having received all the qualities.

This mantra is extremely powerful and I know some of the benefits. If you recite this mantra, then anyone who hears your voice or touches you, their mind is blessed and purified. Similarly, when you bless toys with this mantra, then if someone plays with the toys, their mind is purified.

It’s the same when you use this mantra to bless a conch. Then when you blow the conch, it purifies the mind of anyone who hears the sound. It’s the same when you recite the mantra to bless drums. You recite the mantra seven times, then whoever hears that sound—people or animals—it purifies the very heavy negative karmas without break, the five uninterrupted negative karmas.

Anybody who has collected the five heavy negative karmas without break, such as killing one’s father, mother and so forth, is purified. That means no question about the ten nonvirtues. They will never get reborn in the lower realms. By reciting this mantra then the five heavy negative karmas are purified.

You can even recite it for people who have died. If they are born in the lower realms, for example, a bhikshu who has received the four defeats [has broken the four root vows] and is born in hell, by thinking of that monk, if you recite this mantra it transforms from the lower realm and they get a higher rebirth.

So please try to do this. Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night, and in every action you do.

With much love and prayers ...

Stainless Pinnacle Lotus Mantra
Date of Advice:
June 2015
Date Posted:
February 2018

Rinpoche offered this advice about the benefits of the Stainless Pinnacle mantra to a Dharma center.  

OM NAMA STRAIYA DHVIKANAM / SARVA TATHAGATA HRI DAYA GARBHE JVALA JVALA / DHARMADHATU GARBHE / SAMBHARA MAMA AYU SAMSHODHAYA MAMA SARVA PAPAM / SARVA TATHAGATA SAMANTOSHNISHA VIMALE VISHUDDHE / HUM HUM HUM HUM / AM VAM SAM JA SVAHA

This mantra taught by Buddha, the Stainless Pinnacle Lotus mantra, if it goes on the body, purifies 10,000 eons of negative karma. So this is very good to put on the head; this is how it is used.

It has many other benefits, such as bringing success and healing.

If a fully ordained monk has broken all four root vows and has been born in hell, thinking of that person and reciting this mantra has the power to liberate that person from hell and bring them a higher rebirth.

 

The Wisdom Mantra Called the Arya Six Syllables
Date Posted:
January 2011

In Sanskrit: Arya Shatakshara Bidya
In Tibetan: pag pa yi ge drug pa zhe ja wai rig ngag

Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus have I heard at one time. The Lord Buddha was staying at Sravasti and at that time the Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond One1 said to the Venerable Ananda:

“Ananda! The wisdom mantra of six syllables is set forth by the six fully, perfectly enlightened buddhas, the four world protectors, and the twenty-eight great yaksha leaders. Ananda! Hold this queen wisdom mantra2 of six syllables. Keep it!3 Understand the meaning completely!

TAYATA DANTILE KANTILE DANTAMITE MADHUMAMATI MADHUMATI KARINTATE KORANDADARABITI KOSHABI TSATATZA DUDUMATE KETUMATI TSUDUNADHE KUTADANTE TARUHURE ENANIGE HUTARABAHUNI

“This, Ananda, is the six syllable wisdom mantra.

“For those stricken by disease of the brain, eyes, ears, teeth, nose, tongue, heart, stomach, back, ribs, calves, feet, limbs, branches of the limbs,4 indigestion, swelling, obstructions of the womb, sicknesses that are combined of many other sicknesses,5 from wind, bile and phlegm; extremely serious, contagious diseases; one, two, three and four day sicknesses; momentary contagious diseases, day contagious diseases and night contagious diseases.

“This six syllable wisdom mantra protects, completely saves, completely protects, completely guards, fully nurtures, pacifies, and makes one happy and good. It frees from punishment and frees from weapons, neutralizes poison, and if anyone transgresses this, by sprinkling the water6 or binding with thread,7 Ananda, in this world with its devas, maras, Brahma, virtue training,8 brahmins, gods, suras, asuras, and human beings I did not see, their heads will get cracked into seven pieces like the petals of the flower niga.9

TAYATA ANDARE PANDARE KARATA KEYURE BHUTAGRAHE BHUTAGRAHE BHUTAPRAKSHITE BHUTAYASMARAYANI PRAYABATI TETZABATI YASHOBATI GIRININI
May I be happy and well from all danger and harm
SVAHA!”

When the Lord Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond One proclaimed this, The Meaningful Life10 Ananda and the whole world with its gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced and highly praised what the Lord Destroyed Qualified Gone Beyond One had taught.

Here the wisdom mantra called Arya Six syllables is complete.

Note: This mantra can be recited and blown on water and then that water can be sipped each day. Also the mantra can be recited and blown on string, and then the string can be worn as a protection.

Colophon: Translated from the Tibetan by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kachoe Dechen Ling, Aptos November 2005. Scribed by Venerable Holly Ansett.

NOTES

1  Lord Buddha   [Return to text]

2 Memorize it  [Return to text]

3  Keep it on the body  [Return to text]

4 Fingers and toes  [Return to text]

5  Dupa la gyupa  [Return to text]

6  Blessed with these six syllables  [Return to text]

7  Thread that is blessed by this mantra, mantra is blown on the thread  [Return to text]

8  Monks and nuns  [Return to text]

9  Or like the fruit champa (which generates heat and has power to heal kidneys and other diseases)  [Return to text]

10  Venerable  [Return to text]

The Exalted Zung of Norbu Sangpo
Date Posted:
November 2009

Rinpche offered the following zung and mantra of Norbu Sangpo.

Translator’s Motivation

To free the numberless hell beings, to free numberless hungry ghosts, to free numberless animals, to free numberless human beings, to free numberless asuras, to free numberless suras from the suffering causes and bring them to enlightenment, to relieve the poverty of sentient beings and to achieve the needs of the teachings of the Buddha, the needs of the holy beings, Sangha, to spread the Dharma, therefore, I am going to translate the methods to relieve the poverty of sentient beings, Norbu Sangpo Zung, the mantra. ‘Zung’ means unforgettable wisdom, to abandon non-virtue and abide in virtue. (That is one meaning of ‘zung’ I've seen. The word ‘zung’ is used many times; in the title here it means ‘mantra’).

The Exalted Zung of Norbu Sangpo

In Indian language: Arya Maneebhadra Nama Dharani
In Tibetan language: pag pa nor bu sang po zung

I prostrate to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.

At one time I heard like this. The Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond One was abiding in Sravasti, the park of the king's son,1 Kunga Rawa of Gonme Sejin, a benefactor of the Buddha. This was a park with a temple containing shelves holding holy texts and holy objects. Then the son of Norbu Sangpo, who is the great leader of the host of harm-givers [nod jin] went to the place where the Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond One was. He prostrated with his head at the feet of the Buddha, Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond One, and after sitting in one direction, the son of Norbu Sangpo, the great leader of the host of harm-givers, explained in this way to the Buddha, Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond One:

Pure One, virtue beggars or female virtue beggars,2 males nearing virtue or female nearing virtue,3 if any of them recites this heart mantra three times every day, I will always follow that person. I will provide all the needs of that being. I will even look for their food, clothing, precious jewels, gold, possessions, grains, silver/money. I will complete all the purposes of that living being. I will let all sentient beings be under the control of that being. I will complete all the various activities of that being in that moment, except for those engaged in the sexual act.”

NAMO RATNA TRAYAYAA, NAMO MANEEBHADRAYA MAHAYAKSHA SANAA PATA SAYAY YATI THEN* HELEEMANEEBHADRA HELEE HELEE MANEEBHADRA KILI MANEEBHADRA KILI KILI MANEEBHADRA TSILIMANEEBHADRA TSILI TSILI MANEEBHADRA TSULU MANEEBHADRA TSULU TSULU MANEEBHADRA TURU MANEEBHADRA TURU TURU MANEEBHADRA KURU MANEEBHADRA KURU KURU MANEEBHADRA TSURU MANEEBHADRA TSURU TSURU MANEEBHADRA SURU MANEEBHADRA SURU SURU MANEEBHADRA SARVA AHTHAMAMAY SARDAHYAY SVAHA TATHYATA POOTHANAY SUBHUTANAY POOTUNAY SUBHUTANAY SURUMAY SUMARRTAY SURRATAY SUSMAHATAY SUSMAPATAY HELIKEYHEELAKALI POONAYASIDDHIBHADRA HILI HILI SVAHA EHEEKONISHKAY EHEEKONISHKAY SVAHA.

*indicates a low tone

By reciting this seven times, success will be achieved. This ceremony is like this: On the 15th of the waxing moon, clean one's own body, wear clean clothing or new clothing, three times offer smoke with the agaro,4 and if you recite 7,000 times this mantra, you will find gold.5

Here, the Zung of Pakpa Norbu Sangpo is completed.

Translator’s Dedication

Due to the merits of having made this Norbu Zangpo Zung available in English, and the mantra Norbu Sangpo Zung, may this result in the greatest benefit to all sentient beings. May anyone who, just by hearing this mantra or seeing this mantra — even merely touching this text or keeping it — achieve all the happiness that they are wishing for instantly, including all the wealth they are looking for. May all the wealth they receive and any happiness they achieve cause them to realize renunciation of samsara, bodhicitta, and right view in this very lifetime as quickly as possible. May they train their mind in the two stages of highest tantra on the basis of only pleasing one's own Guru, without displeasing for one second, and may they achieve the unified state of Vajradhara in this very lifetime. May each person who practices this help so many other sentient beings to be relieved from poverty, and give wealth. May all that wealth cause them to generate the good heart in their lives, achieve full enlightenment — complete awakening, in their minds.

Notes:

1 The king’s son was already king at this time. [Return to text]

2 Fully-ordained males and fully-ordained females. [Return to text]

3 Males and females living in the five precepts. [Return to text]

4 Name of an incense wood. [Return to text]

5 Lama Zopa Rinpoche suggests that “you will find gold” means that gold is something very rare and precious, so what it means is that you will have success finding the wealth you are looking for. [Return to text]

Colophon: 
Translated by Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, in September 2005, while staying at Nagarjuna Barcelona, Spain. Notes taken and lightly edited by Claire Isitt. Lightly edited and formatted by Venerable Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Department, April 2006. This mantra was given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and has not been checked against the Tibetan original.

 

The Mantra Encompassing the Essence of Kangyur
Date Posted:
November 2009

Rinpoche offered the following Mantra Encompassing the Essence of the Kangyur: the Prajnaparamita mantras.

In Sanskrit: shasta saha srika prajna paramita (The Essence of the 100,000 Verses of the Perfection of Wisdom Gone Beyond)

I prostrate to the bhagavans who have destroyed the foes and are endowed with all the qualities of knowledge, encompassing the essence of the perfection of the wisdom gone beyond.

TADYATHA OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNI DHARME SAKA HA DHARME SHA SE NIRI SARTHA KADYA SARI TRA ME DHARMA TADYATHA HRI SU HRI SMRITI JAYA BI JAYA DHA DHA RINI PRAJNA SARE SVAHA (recite many times)

Reciting this mantra it is equivalent to reading the 100,000 verses of the perfection of the wisdom gone beyond.

This completes the essence of the Great Mother of Perfect Wisdom Gone Beyond.

In Sanskrit: pranyaca bid shate saha srika prajna paramita (The Essence of the 25,000 Verses of the Perfection of Wisdom Gone Beyond)

I prostrate to the bhagavans who have destroyed the foes and are endowed with all the qualities of knowledge, the essence of the 25,000 verses of the Perfection of Wisdom.

TADHYATHA PRAJNE PRAJNE MAHA PRAJNE SARVA BHARE PRAJNA SARTHA JANA DHUNA TARE PRAJNA SRE TA SASA KARISI KARISI KARISITI BHUDHU BHUDHU KAMA BHA KAMA BHA BUDHU BHUDHU SARA SARA DHARA DHARA PARA PARA GARJA GARJA GARJAYA TING NGE SVAHA (recite many times)

Reciting this mantra it is equivalent to reading the 25,000 verses of the perfection of wisdom gone beyond.

This completes the essence of the 25,000 verses.

In Sanskrit: arya ahshta saha srika prajna paramita

I prostrate to the bhagavans who have destroyed the foes and are endowed with all the qualities of knowledge.

TADYATHA HRI SATI SMRITI JAYA BIJAYA SVAHA (recite many times)

Reciting this mantra is equivalent to reading the 8,000 verses of the perfection of wisdom gone beyond.

This completes the essence of the 8,000.

In Sanskrit: prajna paramitaye (The mantra of the Eighty Thousand Verses of the Perfection of Wisdom Gone Beyond)

OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNIYE SVAHA PRAJNA PARAMITAYE SVAHA

Reciting this mantra is equivalent to reading the 80,000 verses of the perfection of wisdom gone beyond.

This completes the essence of the 80,000 verses.

In Sanskrit: nama sarva tathagata hridhaya

This is the essence of all the tathagatas, the ones gone to bliss.

I prostrate to the Precious Sublime Three.

NAMA SARVA TATHAGATA HRIDHAYA ANUGATE OM KURUM GINI SVAHA

Reciting this mantra just one time exhausts each and every obscuration accumulated over a hundred million eons.

This completes the mantra, essence of all the tathagatas, the ones gone to bliss

In Sanskrit: arya paramita sanyaca gatha (The Single Collection of the Superior Perfection of Wisdom Gone Beyond)

I prostrate to Arya Manjushri.

TADYATHA GATE GATE PARAGATE PARAGATE SAM GATE BOTEYE SVAHA

This is equivalent to reading the collection of the Arya-Superior.

I directly admire and praise the words of the Bhagavan.

Colophon:
Mantras given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Scribe unknown. Lightly edited by Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Department, February 2006. These mantras have not been checked against the Tibetan.

These are the mantras of Prajnaparamita, three volumes, 20,000 stanzas, all three lengths. When there is no time to recite all the text, one can just do the mantras. In Singapore some years ago, one Indonesian man whose business was going down did this and his business improved. So this gives another method for sick people and business people for the works of this life.