One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī

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འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ།
One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī
Mañjuśrīnāmāṣṭaśataka

One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī belongs to a class of texts praising a select deity through a series of one hundred and eight names, each conveying a distinctive feature of the deity’s appearance, realization, or activity as supreme teacher. The present text includes a brief mantra and concludes with a brief description of the benefits of retaining, reciting, and recollecting the names throughout one’s life, especially at the time of death.

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