Literal: Effortless, without abode, possessing fire, water, and the heart, the Mount Meru, the various lotuses, moon, sun, Rāhu, and Kālāgni; the earth above and below, the nature of the higher realms, the triple-layered vajra, the precious celestial mansion radiating light, delightful, with goddesses singing songs, offering cymbals and the like, with the sounds of music, and with offerings of fragrance, garlands, lamps, and what is called nectar—offered with many such specific offerings corresponding to their respective names; at each of the gates are very high and beautiful archways, from which the sounds of bells and melodies emerge, and peacocks, geese, and others chirp and laugh; with garments, victory banners, and tinkling bells hanging down, the graceful and laughing goddesses; in the center of the mind wheel, the Wisdom Wheel, resides the consort Viśvamātā together with [the central deity], seated upon a lotus leaf, surrounded by the eight insights; at its four corners are the ghaṇṭā, the conch, the wish-fulfilling jewel, and the earth-born [Aśoka] tree; and in the wheel of great bliss are likewise Amoghasiddhi, Ratneśvara, and Vairocana, marked by the lotus, seated upon white lotuses and suns in the vajra posture; just as the Buddhas of the directions are in union with their respective consorts, so too are Locanā, Māmakī, Pāṇḍaravāsinī, and Tārā, upon red lotuses and moon seats, in the intermediate directions. In the center of the gods and goddesses, between the pillars, are vases completely filled with nectar; in the mind wheel reside the great Bodhisattvas Samantabhadra, Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin, Lokeśvara, Ākāśagarbha, Kṣitigarbha, and Vajreśvara; likewise, with right leg extended, reside Padmāntaka, Vighnāntaka, Stambhaka, and Stobhaka, in union with their respective wrathful vajra-limbed consorts; the gatekeepers of the speech wheel, including Bhīmā and the others, the sixty-four yoginīs, with Cāmuṇḍā and Aindrī at the center; the fierce goddesses seated upon deer, lions, geese, and so forth; and in the body wheel, the assembly of yoginīs seated upon their respective lotuses; in their midst reside Brahmā, Īśvara, Nārāyaṇa, Agni, Yama, Kumāra, Śakra, together with Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Varuṇa, Vāyu, and the lords of obstacles; upon chariots are Acala, Uṣṇīṣa, Nīladaṇḍa, and Sumbharāja, embraced by hosts of goddesses such as the Lūlāyī; at the archways and upon the center of the earth mandala are the Bodhi tree and so forth, the moon and sun, and likewise the goddesses of desire and individual desire; to the Omniscient Lord of Sages, the Teacher, the Supreme Refuge, the Great Wisdom, Kālacakra, the God of Gods, I prostrate, offer, and praise with joy. In some places, the Vajravega, dripping streams of blood, wearing an elephant hide, his two remaining hands busy, the King of Wrathful Deities, his body adorned by ten fierce nāgas, emitting terrifying sounds; the hosts of wrathful deities constantly strike the hosts of obstructors with blazing kīlas; seeing the blazing Caṇḍālī, they perceive the gathering of constellations, flashing lightning, and falling meteors; the profound thundering sound of "HŪṂ" is proclaimed; to the accomplished Guru Gautama, with the seven limbs extended, I shall always make offerings.
textThe 'triple-layered vajra' refers to the architectural structure of the celestial mansion (vimāna) within the mandala.
lemma: རྡོ་རྗེ་གསུམ་བརྩེགས
textThe 'wisdom wheel' (ye shes 'khor lo) denotes the central circle of the mandala's layout.
lemma: ཡེ་ཤེས་འཁོར་ལོ
textThe term 'union' (snyoms 'jug) here refers to the yuganaddha state of the deity and consort.
lemma: སྙོམས་འཇུག
textThe 'speech wheel' (gsung gi 'khor lo) is the second concentric circle of the mandala.
lemma: གསུང་གི་འཁོར་ལོ
textThe 'body wheel' (sku yi 'khor lo) is the outermost concentric circle of the mandala.
lemma: སྐུ་ཡི་འཁོར་ལོ
textThe 'blazing Caṇḍālī' (gtum mo) refers to the internal psychic heat manifested as a wrathful force.
lemma: གཏུམ་མོ
- མེ me · agni — fire
- ཟླ་བ zla ba · candra — moon; month
- ཉི་མ nyi ma · āditya — Āditya
- བདུད་རྩི bdud rtsi · amṛta — amṛta
- དབང་ཕྱུག dbang phyug · īśvara — Īśvara
- སངས་རྒྱས sangs rgyas · buddha — buddha
- ཡེ་ཤེས ye shes · jñāna — wisdom
- ཤེས་རབ shes rab · prajñā — insight
Ambiguities:- The phrase 'རང་རང་མིང་མཐུན་' is read as offerings corresponding to the specific names of the deities.
- The term 'རྟ་བབས་' is interpreted as the architectural 'archway' or 'gateway' typical of mandala descriptions.
confidence: medium