Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This text, titled Paravaśamana (Subduing Others), provides a ritual procedure for inviting beings who have already entered nirvāṇa back into the realm of embodied existence. The work functions as a manual for a specific type of empowerment, combining a devotional invocation to a compassionate Noble One with a specific mantra designed to mobilize the consciousness of these beings. The text commits the practitioner to a state of intense, undistracted compassion and constant mental application, suggesting that the ritual's efficacy depends upon the practitioner's internal psychological state. By framing the invitation of nirvāṇa-gone beings as a guest-like summoning, the text outlines a method for bridging the gap between liberation and embodied activity for the sake of others.
Provenance
About this text
Defining the act of subduing others as the invitation of beings who have passed into nirvāṇa back as guests from the depths of the heart, the Paravaśīkaraṇa is a treatise belonging to the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The work is attributed to the Indian author Mitrānanda. It was translated into classical Tibetan by gnubs lo tsa ba and is preserved in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, where it extends to one page. The text enacts a ritual procedure centered on a specific mantra—Amuṣya citta mahāsādhaya cala cala pracala pracala jaḥ jaḥ—and a requirement for the practitioner to remain intoxicated with intense, undistracted compassion. It argues that the efficacy of this process depends upon the practitioner's constant mental application to the happiness of others, suggesting that such a psychological state allows the practitioner to become whatever is necessary to facilitate this summoning. A scholar or serious reader consults this work today to examine the intersection of ritualized compassion and the technical means used to bridge the gap between liberation and embodied activity for the benefit of sentient beings.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “Further Empowerments To Be Done” (Toh 2471), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2471
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant for its focus on the ability to recall beings from nirvāṇa, a concept that highlights the tension between final liberation and the bodhisattva's commitment to universal salvation. For the modern reader, it illustrates the technical intersection of mantra, mental discipline, and compassion in Indo-Tibetan ritual practice.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
1
Invocation and Purpose
Provides the Indian and Tibetan titles and an homage to a compassionate Noble One, establishing the goal of inviting beings from nirvāṇa.
2
Ritual Application
Presents the specific mantra and the required mental state of the practitioner.
Themes
Compassion (karuṇā) (1-2)
Ritual Invitation (1)
Mental Concentration (2)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
In the language of India: Paravaśamana. In the language of Tibet: Pha rol dbang du bya ba (Subduing Others). Homage to the Noble One endowed with great compassion.
With a mind overwhelmed by intense compassion,
For embodied beings who have passed into nirvāṇa,
Inviting them as guests from the depths of one’s heart—
That is the explanation of subduing others.
At dawn, when darkness arrives,
At the time of falling asleep or waking,
And when joy or longing arises—
The ritual for that is Avalokiteśvara.
Whatever body I have is the deity;
Speech is the four syllables themselves.
The conceptual and non-conceptual mind
Are great compassion and emptiness.
The two eyes are the blazing sun and moon;
The tongue is adorned with the garland of vowels and consonants.
In the center of the swirling fire-hearth of the navel,
Is the glorious goddess of desire.
For the person to be subdued,
At the brow, the heart, and the center of the navel,
Are joy, faith, and longing itself.
The bindu, the lotus, and the form of the letter A,
Are the stream of the letter A of loving-kindness.
Through the touch born of my emanation,
The one with unbearable compassion
Is completely melted by the gaze of joy.
With the great intelligence of immeasurable equanimity,
Reciting the five syllables, the lotus opens.
OṂ ĀḤ HRĪḤ JAḤ HŪṂ.
Without distraction, perform the approach and accomplishment
For five hundred thousand recitations with a superior intention, free from obstacles.
With the relics of the Sugatas, bathing the image and so forth,
The compassionate ones should use mantra-water.
Having washed the face with red flowers,
Recite the mantra with honey in the center of the tongue:
OṂ ĀḤ HRĪḤ LOKANĀTHA MAHĀKĀRUṆIKA HO SA MA HAṂ.
[The mantra:] Amuṣya citta mahāsādhaya cala cala pracala pracala jaḥ jaḥ!
"O one of excellent intelligence, if you are intoxicated with compassion and constantly, day and night, without distraction, apply your mind to this thought: 'By what means and through what activity might these beings be made happy? If they could be made so, it would be easy for me to become whatever is necessary,' then by this Yogarāja-vidhi, in three, six, or nine days, they will undoubtedly come under your power, like a branch struck by a hook. This paravaśīkaraṇa (subjugation of others) was translated by Gnubs Lo-tsā-ba."
Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).
Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.