The Dhāraṇī of “The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines”
Toh 933
Degé Kangyur, vol. 100 (gzungs, e), folios 280.b–281.a
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Acknowledgements
The text was translated from Tibetan by the Buddhapīṭha Translation Group (Gergely Hidas and Péter-Dániel Szántó).
The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Andreas Doctor edited the translation and the introduction, and Laura Goetz copyedited the text. Martina Cotter was in charge of the digital publication process.
Introduction
This text consists of a short dhāraṇī said to encompass The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines1 and the benefits of its recitation.
Such short texts served a variety of purposes, the primary one being that by reciting them one could acquire the positive karmic benefits of reciting an entire, sometimes extremely long, text. On a practical level, the recitation of these short texts also served as an equivalent to the recitation of the parent text, should a prescribed ritual so require.
Text Body
The Translation
Homage to the Blessed Lady, the Mother Perfection of Wisdom.
tadyathā—oṃ prajñe mahāprajñe4 prajñāvabhāse prajñāvalokite5 sarvadharmāndhakāravidhamane6 siddhe susiddhe sidhyantu māṃ7 bhagavati sarvajñānasaṃdhāre8 bhagavati vatsale9 prasāritahaste10 mama sukara siddhi siddhi buddha buddha11 kampa kampa pāla pāla dhara dhara vara vara garja garja āgaccha āgaccha bhagavati mā [F.281.a] vilamba svāhā!12
By upholding this, one will have upheld The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines.13 All karmic obscurations will be purified.
Here ends “The Dhāraṇī of ‘The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines.’ ”
Notes
This text, Toh 933, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs, e), are listed as being located in volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). However, several other Kangyur databases—including the eKangyur that supplies the digital input version displayed by the 84000 Reading Room—list this work as being located in volume 101. This discrepancy is partly due to the fact that the two volumes of the gzungs ’dus section are an added supplement not mentioned in the original catalog, and also hinges on the fact that the compilers of the Tōhoku catalog placed another text—which forms a whole, very large volume—the Vimalaprabhānāmakālacakratantraṭīkā (dus ’khor ’grel bshad dri med ’od, Toh 845), before the volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur, numbering it as vol. 100, although it is almost certainly intended to come right at the end of the Degé Kangyur texts as volume 102; indeed its final fifth chapter is often carried over and wrapped in the same volume as the Kangyur dkar chags (catalog). Please note this discrepancy when using the eKangyur viewer in this translation.
Bibliography
Tibetan Sources
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu pa’i gzungs (Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitādhāraṇī). Toh 577, Degé Kangyur vol. 90 (rgyud, pha), folio 203.a.
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu pa’i gzungs (Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitādhāraṇī). Toh 933, Degé Kangyur vol. 100 (gzungs, e), folios 280.b–281.a.
sher phyin kau shi ka (Kauśikaprajñāpāramitā). Toh 19, Degé Kangyur vol. 19 (shes rab sna tshogs, ka), folios 142.a–143.b. English translation The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” 2023.
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag brgya pa’i gzungs (Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitādhāraṇī). Toh 576, Degé Kangyur vol. 90 (rgyud, pha), folios 202.b–203.a; Toh 932, Degé Kangyur vol. 100 (gzungs, e), folio 280.b. English translation The Dhāraṇī of “The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines” 2024.
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa (Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā). Toh 9, Degé Kangyur vols. 26–28 (nyi khri, ka–ga), folios 1.b (ka)–381.a (ga). English translation The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines 2023.
Secondary Sources
84000. The Dhāraṇī of “The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines” (Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitādhāraṇī, shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag brgya pa’i gzungs, Toh 576, 932). Translated by the Buddhapīṭha Translation Group (Gergely Hidas and Péter-Dániel Szántó). Online publication. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2024.
———. The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines (Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā, shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa, Toh 9). Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group. Online publication. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2023.
———. The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” (Kauśikaprajñāpāramitā, sher phyin kau shi ka, Toh 19). Translated by the UCSB Buddhist Studies Translation Group. Online publication. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2023.
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equipment of merit
- bsod nams kyi tshogs
- བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས།
- puṇyasaṃbhāra AO
Perfection of Wisdom
- shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa
- ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
- prajñāpāramitā AO