Tibetan Buddhist Mantras
Shakyamuni Buddha
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་མུ་ནེ་མུ་ནེ་མ་ཧཱ་མུ་ན་ཡེ་སྭ་ཧཱ།
TADYATHA OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNAYE SOHA
(The origin of Buddhism is from Buddha Shakyamuni who
attained enlightenment in present day India-Nepal. He is the source of
all our teachings, as such he is one of the most important Buddhas.)
(Chant ‘Tadyatha Om Muni Muni Maha Munaye Soha’ 7 times and then switch to ‘Om Muni Muni Maha Munaye Soha if you are not a monk.)
About Shakyamuni Buddha’s Mantra
Amitabha, Buddha of Boundless Light
ཨོཾ་ཨ་མི་དྷེ་ཝ་ཧྲཱིཿ
OM AMI DEWA SHRIH
(Amitabha Buddha is the Buddha of Infinite Light, all other
Buddhas from his family are emanated and manifested through him and his
activity.)
About Amitabha Buddha’s Mantra
Medicine Buddha
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མ་ཧཱ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུདྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
TADYATHA OM BHEKANZE BHEKANZE MAHA BHEKANZE RADZA SAMUNDGATÉ SOHA
(The Medicine Buddha is good for people who are sick or prone to
sickness. When you receive an empowerment for the Medicine Buddha, then
you can use his mantra to bless your own medicine so that it becomes
more effective and can help cure your illness.)
(Chant ‘Tadyatha Om Bhekanze Bhekanze Maha Bhekanze Radza
Samundgate Soha’ 7 times and then switch to ‘Om Bhekanze Bhekanze Maha
Bhekanze Radza Samundgate Soha’)
About the Medicine Buddha’s Mantra
Mantra of Vajrasattva (Hundred Syllables)
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ས་མ་ཡ༔ མ་ནུ་པཱ་ལ་ཡ༔
བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཏྭེ་ནོ་པ་ཏིཥྛ་དྲྀ་ཌྷོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ༔ སུ་ཏོ་ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ༔
སུ་པོ་ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ༔ ཨ་ནུ་རཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ༔ སརྦ་སིདྡྷི་མྨེ་པྲ་ཡཙྪ༔
སརྦ་ཀརྨ་སུ་ཙ་མེ༔ ཙིཏྟཾ་ཤྲེ་ཡཾཿ ཀུ་རུ་ཧཱུྂ༔ ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧོཿ བྷ་ག་ཝཱན༔
སརྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་བཛྲ་མཱ་མེ་མུཉྩ་བཛྲཱི་བྷ་ཝ་མ་ཧཱ་ས་མ་ཡ་སཏྭ་ཨཱཿ
OM BADZAR SATO SA-MA-YA, MANU PA-LA-YA, BADZAR SA-TO TE-NO-PA TITHRA, DRI DHRO ME-BHA-WA, SU-TO KHAYO ME BHA-WA, SU-PO KHAYO ME-BHA-WA, A-NU RAKTO ME-BHA-WA, SARWA SIDDHI ME-PRA YA-TSHA, SARWA KARMA SU-TSA-ME, TSITTAM SHRE-YAM, KU-RU HUNG, HA HA HA HA HO, BHA-GA-WAN, SARWA TA-THA GA-TA BADZAR MAME MUNTSA BADZRI BHA-WA MA-HA SA-MA-YA SATO AH
(Vajrasattva is the Buddha of Purification, he pledged that
whoever recited his mantra would be purified of all their negative
actions and obscurations. His name refers to the indestructible purity
of the nature of mind.)
Short Mantra of Vajrasattva
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཧཱུྂ༔
OM BADZAR SATO HUNG
About Vajrasattva’s Mantra
Guru Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche)
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྂ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྂ༔
OM AH HUNG BENZA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUNG
(Guru Rinpoche came from India to Tibet about one-thousand and
three-hundred years ago. Before in Tibet, Buddhism was there, but it was
not strongly established. When Guru Rinpoche came, he strongly
established Buddhism throughout the entire country. He was invited by
the Dharma King Trisong Detsen and through his great magical powers and
abilities, he helped established the Tibetan Buddhist culture that we
know today.)
About Guru Padmasambhava’s Mantra
Avalokiteshvara
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ཧྲཱིཿ
OM MANI PADME HUNG SHRIH
(Avalokiteshvara (Chenrizig in Tibetan) is the Bodhisattva of
Compassion, he has a karmic relation to Tibet and is the Tibetan
countries’ main deity.)
About Avalokiteshvara’s Mantra
Manjushri
ཨོཾ་ཨ་ར་པ་ཙ་ན་དྷཱིཿ
OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHI
(Manjushri is the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. Doing his practice can
help a practitioner increase their memory, eloquence of speech, keeps
one’s mind fresh, eliminate confusion, and increase one’s overall
ability of intelligence and wisdom.)
About Manjushri’s Mantra
Vajrapani
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་པཱ་ཎི་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཌ།
OM BENZA PANI HUNG PHET
(Vajrapani, one of the eight great bodhisattvas and lords of the
three families. He represents the power of the buddhas and is usually
depicted as blue in colour and holding a vajra.)
About Vajrapani’s Mantra
Green Tara
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OM TARE TU TARE TURE SWAHA
(Green Tara is very good for helping people to fulfill their
wishes and she can also help people overcome their difficulties arising
from the eight types of fears.)
About Green Tara’s Mantra
Amitayus Buddha
ༀནམོབྷགཝཏེེེ། ཨཔརིམིཏཨཱཡུརྫྙཱནསུབིནིཤྩིཏཏེཛོརཱཛཱཡ། ཏཐཱགཏཱཡ།
ཨརྷཏེསཾམྱཀྶཾབུདྡྷཱཡ། ཏདྱཐཱ། ༀཔུཎྱེཔུཎྱེ། མཧཱཔུཎྱེ། ཨཔརིམིཏཔུཎྱེ
ཨཔརིམིཏཔཎྱཛྙཱནསཾབྷཱརོཔཙིཏེ། ༀསརྦསཾསྐཱརཔརིཤུདྡྷདྷརྨཱཏེགགནསམུ
དྒཏེསྭབྷཱཝབིཤུདྡྷེམཧཱནཡཔརིཝཱརེསྭཱཧཱ།
OM NAMO BHAGAWATIE APARIMITA AHYU/ JNANA SUBINI TSITA TEJA RAJAYA/ TATHAGATAYA/ ARHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA/ TADYATHA/ OM PUNAYE PUNAYE/ MAHA PUNAYA APARIMITA PUNAYE APARIMITA PUNAYE/ JNANA SAMBHA ROPA TSITE/ OM SARWA SAMSKARA PARI SHUDDHA DHARMATE/ GAGANA SAMUDGATE SVABHAWA VISHUDDHE/ MAHA NAYA PARIWARIE SOHA/
About Amitayus’ Mantra
White Tara
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མམ་ཨཱ་ཡུརྤུཎྱེ་ཛྙཱ་ན་པུཥྚིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་ཡེ་སྭཧཱ།
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA AYUR PUNYE JNANA PUSHTIM KURU YE SVAHA
(White Tara helps us to fulfill our wishes, but her practice is
mainly for longevity and helping people to achieve a long life. Her
practice is good for those who are close to death and need to extend
their lives.)
About White Tara’s Mantra
Hayagriva Mantra
ཨོཾ་ཧྲིཿཔདྨ་ཏན་ཀྲིད་བཛྲ་ཀྲོ་དྷ་ཧ་ཡ་གྲི་ལྦ་ཧུ་ལུ་ཧུ་ལུ་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཌ།
OM SHRI PEMA TAHN DRIN BENZA TROH DHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUNG PHET
དབང་བསྡུས་སྔགས་ནི་
Empowering Mantra (Avert Negativity)
ཨོཾ་ཧྲིཿ པདྨ་ཏན་ཀྲིད་བཛྲ་ཀྲོ་དྷ་ཧ་ཡ་གྲི་ལྦ་ཧུ་ལུ་ཧུ་ལུ་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཌ།
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་དུན་བྷྱོ་ཏྲིག་ནན་ཛ་ཛ་ས་མ་ཡ་ཏྭཾ། ལས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ སྔགསནི་ ས་མ་ཡཛ།
ས་མ་ཡ་བཟློག། ས་མ་ཡ་བྷྱོ། ས་མ་ཡ་གཏུབས། ས་མ་ཡ་དབྱེར་ ས་མ་ཡ་སྦད་ ས་མ་ཡ་སྦད་
ས་མ་ཡ་ སྦད་སྦུད་ཕཊ་ཡ་ གནོད་ བྱེད་འབྱུང་པོ་མ་ར་ཡ་ཛ་ཛ་ ཉེར་གཅིག་ཙམ་བཟླ །
OM SHRI PEMA TAHN DRIN BENZA TROH DHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUNG PHET, OM BENZA DHUN-JOH TRIG-NEN ZHA-ZHA SAMAYA TON, SAMAYA-ZHA SAMAYA-DHOG SAMAYA-JOH SAMAYA-TOOP, SAMAYA-JER SAMAYA-BEH SAMAYA-BEH-BOOH-PHET YA NYOD-JEH, JOONG-PO MARAYA ZHA-ZHA
(Recite the Empowering Mantra up to 21 times max, do not do more)
(Hayagriva is the wrathful emanation of Avalokiteshvara and
chases away all ignorance. Anyone who prays to Hayagriva shall be
blessed with abundant knowledge and wisdom. He is especially beneficial
in these degenerate times when suffering and illness is rampant.)
(Please do not do this practice without the transmission (lung) from a qualified master. If interested please contact us.)
About Hayagriva’s Mantra
Sengdongma, the Lion Faced Dakini
ཨཿ ཀཿ སཿ མཿ རཿ ཙཿ ཤཿ དཿ རཿ སཿ མཱཿ རཿ ཡཿ ཕཊཿ
AH KA SAMA RATSA SHADA RA SAMA RAYA PHET
About Sengdongma’s Mantra
Prajnaparamita
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་ག་ཏེ་ག་ཏེ་པཱ་ར་ག་ཏེ། པཱ་ར་སཾ་ག་ཏེ། བོ་དྷི་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
TADYATHA OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SOHA
(Prajnaparamita means transcendent wisdom wisdom or the ‘Perfection of Wisdom’. This mantra is associated with emptiness.)
About the Prajnaparamita Mantra
Yellow Jambhala
ཨོཾ་ཛམ་བྷ་ལ་ཛ་ལེནྡྲ་ཡ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OM JAMBHALA JALENDRAYE SVAHA
(Jambhala is a Buddhist Wealth deity and is known to be very
effective for creating the means of wealth and abundance. It is also
traditional to do his mantra while pouring water over his head in statue
form.)
About Yellow Jambhala’s Mantra
The Dharani of Buddha Aksobhya (Miktropya)
ན་མོ་རཏྣ་ཏྲ་ཡཱ་ཡ། ན་མོ་བྷ་ག་ཝ་ཏེ་ཨཀྵོ་བྷྱ་ཡ། ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་ཡ།
ཨརྷ་ཏེ་སམྱཀྶཾ་བུདྡྷཱ་ཡ། ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་ཀཾ་ཀ་ནི་ཀཾ་ཀ་ནི། རོ་ཙ་ནི་རོ་ཙ་ནི།
ཏྲོ་ཌ་ནི་ཏྲོ་ཌ་ནི། ཏྲཱ་ས་ནི་ཏྲཱ་ས་ནི། པྲ་ཏི་ཧ་ན་པྲ་ཏི་ཧ་ན།
སརྦ་ཀརྨ་པ་རཾ་པ་རཱ་ཎི་མེ་སརྦ་སདྭ་ནཱཉྪ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA | NAMO BHAGAVATE AKSHOBHYAYA TATHAGATAYA
ARHATE SAMYAK SAMBUDDHAYA | TADYATHA | OM KAMKANI KAMKANI ROTSANI
ROTSANI TROTANI TROTANI TRASANI TRASANI PRATIHANA PRATIHANA SARVA KARMA
PARAMPARANI ME SARVA SATO NANTSA SOHA
About the Mantra of Buddha Aksobhya
The Vajra Armor (Dorje Gotrab)
ཨོཾ་པདྨ་ཤ་བ་རི་ཕཊ༔ ནན་པར་ཤིག༔ ནཱ་ག་ནན༔ ཏདྱ་ཐཱ༔ སརྦ་ཝི་རི་ཏ༔ ཧ་ན་ཧ་ན་བཛྲེ་ན་རཀྵ་རཀྵ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OHM PEMA SHAWARI PEH, NAMBER SHU NANGA NAN, TADYATHA SARWA WIRITA, HANNAH HANNAH BANZHINA, RAKCHA RAKCHA SOHA
(Recite without distraction and then blow inside your shirt for
protection against illness and negative energy – it is important to not
do any unethical behavior while you are practicing the Vajra Armor, this
includes killing of any kind, insects etc.)
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