Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This ritual text provides a prescriptive guide for the purification and ablution process associated with the Nāmasaṃgīti, the recitation of the names of Mañjuśrī. The text employs a structured visualization technique, directing the practitioner to mentally construct a celestial palace of wisdom and an ocean of milk emanating from specific seed syllables, namely BHRŪṂ and BAṂ. By establishing a sacred space through the visualization of a white lotus within this environment, the ritual commits the reader to a precise meditative choreography intended to prepare the practitioner for the recitation. The text functions as a liturgical manual, prioritizing the correct mental projection of symbolic architecture and elements to facilitate the purification process, thereby bridging the gap between conceptual recitation and embodied ritual practice.
Provenance
About this text
A ritual guide for the ablution of the Nāmasaṃgīti, the 'phags pa 'jam dpal gyi mtshan yang dag par brjod pa'i khrus kyi cho ga is a work of the classical Tibetan period. It is attributed to the Indian author Mañjuśrīmitra. The text is preserved in the Tengyur, specifically volume ངུ, where it comprises two pages and is situated within the Yoga Tantra Treatises collection. The work enacts a precise liturgical process of purification, directing the practitioner through a series of complex visualizations. These include the mental construction of a celestial palace of wisdom and an ocean of milk arising from the seed syllables BHRŪṂ and BAṂ, as well as the visualization of a white lotus and a white utpala. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to understand the prescriptive meditative choreography and symbolic architecture required to bridge the gap between the conceptual recitation of Mañjuśrī's names and the embodied ritual practice of purification.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “A Purification Ritual according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī”” (Toh 2548), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2548
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant for its demonstration of how seed syllables are used as the generative basis for complex visualizations in Indo-Tibetan ritual. It illustrates the intersection of mantra and imagery in the cult of Mañjuśrī, providing insight into the specific preparatory requirements for name-recitation practices.
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Description
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Purification Ritual
Instructions for the visualization of the celestial palace, the ocean of milk, and the white lotus using seed syllables.
Themes
Visualization (1)
Seed Syllables (1)
Ritual Purification (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
AnuvādaA Purification Ritual according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī”·
Homage to Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta.
The ritual for the ablution of the Nāmasaṃgīti is as follows: First, visualize the vase as a celestial palace of wisdom arising from the syllable BHRŪṂ. Within it, visualize an ocean of milk arising from BAṂ. Upon that, visualize a white lotus with its petals arising from HRĪḤ. Above that, visualize the syllable MŪṂ. As it melts into light, visualize a white utpala flower. From its melting, visualize Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta, his body white like the autumn moon, holding a blue utpala marked with a sword in his right hand and a blue utpala marked with a volume of scripture in his left. At his heart, visualize a moon disc with the syllable MŪṂ. With its light rays, invite a similar form and dissolve it into him. Recite this mantra and visualize that he melts into the water of wisdom:
OṂ SARVA DHARMĀ ABHĀVA SVABHĀVA VIŚUDDHA VAJRA CAKṢU A Ā AṂ AḤ.
By reciting this, perform the ablution with the water of wisdom to purify one’s own three doors. Conclude with the verses of praise.
The ritual for the ablution of the Nāmasaṃgīti of the Noble Mañjuśrī, composed by the master Mañjuśrīmitra, is complete.
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.