The ''Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti'' () (hereafter, ''Nama-samgiti'') is considered amongst the most advanced teachings given by the
Shakyamuni Buddha. It represents the pinnacle of all Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings, being a
tantra
Tantra (; ) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the India, Indian subcontinent beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE, first within Shaivism and later in Buddhism.
The term ''tantra'', in the Greater India, Indian tr ...
of the nondual (
advaya) class, along with the
Kalachakra Tantra.
The Nama-samgiti was preached by Shakyamuni Buddha for his disciple
Vajrapani and his wrathful retinue in order to lead them into
buddhahood
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. The essence of the Nama-samgiti is that
Manjushri bodhisattva is the embodiment of all knowledge. The Nama-samgiti is a short text, only circa 160 verses and a prose section. It is a fraction of the vast
Sutras such as
Avatamsaka Sutra and
Prajñāpāramitā Sutras or the endless ocean of tantras such as
manjushri-mula-kalpa and the mountainous
Hinayana teachings and sea of sundry extra-canonical works. And yet, the Nama-samgiti contains all of the Buddha's
dharmas. It summarizes everything he taught. As Shakyamuni Buddha says of the Nama-samgiti, it is "the chief clarification of words". It is the "nondual reality". Therefore, all sentient beings should definitely study and recite the manjushri-nama-samgiti.
Alternative titles
*"''manjushrijnanasattvasya-paramartha-namasamgiti''" (full Sanskrit title) lit. "The chanting of the names of
Manjushri, the embodiment of supreme knowledge"
*Āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti ཨཱརྱ་མཉྫུ་ཤྲཱི་ནཱ་མ་སཾ་གི་ཏི
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See also
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Tibetan Buddhist canon
Further reading
*Sherdor, Tulku (2012) "The Wisdom of Manjushri: Teachings of the Early Dzogchen Masters on the Tantra, Professing The Qualities of Manjushri" Blazing Wisdom Publications, Delancey, NY. []
* Davidson, Ronald M. (1981) ''The Litany of Names of Manjushri - Text and Translation of the Manjushri-nama-samgiti'', in Strickmann (ed.) ''Tantric and Taoist Studies (R.A. Stein Festschrift)'', Brussels: Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises (Melanges Chinois et Bouddhiques, vol. XX-XXI) 1981
* Wayman, Alex (1985), ''Chanting the Names of Mañjuśrī: The Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti'', Shambhala, 1985.
eprint Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. Delhi 2006. *Lāl, Banārasī (1986), ''Āryamañjuśrī-nāma-saṃgīti:A Text-Analysis'' in Dhīḥ 1 1986 p. 220–238
*Shakya, Min Bahadur (ed.)(2009), ''Āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṅgīti: Sanskrit and Tibetan texts with their pronunciation'', Lalitpur, Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods.
References
External links
A Concert of Names of Manjushri (Manjushri-namasamgiti)''translated from the Tibetan, as clarified by the Sanskrit'' ~ Alexander Berzin, 2004
- GRETIL Transliterated Sanskrit text based on the edition by Janardan Shastri Pandey in ''Bauddhastotrasamgraha''
- GRETIL Transliterated Sanskrit text based on: Davidson, R. M.: ''The Litany of Names of Manjusri''.
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