Manjushri-nama-samgiti

The "Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti." (bo|t=འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད|w='jam dpal mtshan brjod) (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 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. 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".Fact|date=October 2007 It is the "nondual reality".Fact|date=October 2007 Therefore all sentient beings should definitely study and recite the manjushri-nama-samgiti.

Alternative titles

*"manjushrijnanasattvaysa-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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Further Reading

* 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. [Reprint Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. Delhi 2006. ISBN 812081653]
*Lāl, Banārasī (1986) "Āryamañjuśrī-nāma-saṃgīti:A Text-Analysis" in Dhīḥ 1 1986 p. 220–238

External Links

* [http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/advanced/kalachakra/practice_texts/guru_yoga_prayers/concert_names_manjushri.html A Concert of Names of Manjushri (Manjushri-namasamgiti)] "translated from the Tibetan, as clarified by the Sanskrit" ~ Alexander Berzin, 2004
* [http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil/1_sanskr/4_rellit/buddh/manjnspu.htm Manjusrinamasamgiti] - GRETIL Transliterated Sanskrit text based on the edition by Janardan Shastri Pandey in "Bauddhastotrasamgraha"
* [http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil/1_sanskr/4_rellit/buddh/manjn1pu.htm Manjusrinamasamgiti] - GRETIL Transliterated Sanskrit text based on: Davidson, R. M.: "The Litany of Names of Manjusri".

ee also

*Tibetan Buddhist canon