Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud ’bum, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhimaṇḍasyālaṃkāralakṣadhāraṇī (Toh 508, byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer.
EN
In the Toh 526 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in of the Toh 526 version of this text.
EN
In the Toh 526 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in of the Toh 526 version of this text.
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Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was dwelling together with an assembly of innumerable bodhisattvas in a pavilion ornately decorated with the seven kinds of precious jewels that was located in the firmament of the sky above Śuddhāvāsa.
EN
On that occasion, the Bhagavān said to the bodhisattvas, “Children of a noble family, may you uphold The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates for the benefit and well-being of the whole world. It is as follows:
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“As I pass through life after life in saṃsāra, whatever suffering I experience, may it not be characterized by my not understanding that it is the same for all beings.
EN
“Whatever happiness due to worldly success I experience, may I make use of it in common with all beings to bring about thorough understanding.
EN
“Whatever misdeeds and non-virtuous actions I have done, may I not fail to confess each one of them through unsurpassed confession.
EN
“Whatever demonic actions have been done to me, may I not fail to thoroughly understand them through unsurpassed thorough understanding.
EN
“Whatever roots of virtue I may have, both mundane and supramundane, endowed with the perfections, may they become the fruit of unsurpassable wisdom for all beings.
EN
“Whatever liberation I may have, through it may all sentient beings be released. May I stay neither in saṃsāra nor in nirvāṇa.
“Therefore, children of a noble family, if any sons or daughters of a noble family recite The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates three times by day and three times by night, then, having purified all their karmic obscurations, they will remember their previous lives up to seven lifetimes and will swiftly and fully awaken to unsurpassed perfect buddhahood.”
EN
When the delighted Bhagavān had spoken these words, the assembly of bodhisattvas, and the world with its devas, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced in what the Bhagavān had said.
EN
śubham astu sarvajagatām
EN
ye dharmā hetuprabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hy avadat teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃvādī mahāśramaṇaḥ
Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud ’bum, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhimaṇḍasyālaṃkāralakṣadhāraṇī (Toh 508, byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer.
EN
In the Toh 526 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in of the Toh 526 version of this text.
EN
In the Toh 526 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in of the Toh 526 version of this text.
EN
Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was dwelling together with an assembly of innumerable bodhisattvas in a pavilion ornately decorated with the seven kinds of precious jewels that was located in the firmament of the sky above Śuddhāvāsa.
EN
On that occasion, the Bhagavān said to the bodhisattvas, “Children of a noble family, may you uphold The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates for the benefit and well-being of the whole world. It is as follows:
EN
“As I pass through life after life in saṃsāra, whatever suffering I experience, may it not be characterized by my not understanding that it is the same for all beings.
EN
“Whatever happiness due to worldly success I experience, may I make use of it in common with all beings to bring about thorough understanding.
EN
“Whatever misdeeds and non-virtuous actions I have done, may I not fail to confess each one of them through unsurpassed confession.
EN
“Whatever demonic actions have been done to me, may I not fail to thoroughly understand them through unsurpassed thorough understanding.
EN
“Whatever roots of virtue I may have, both mundane and supramundane, endowed with the perfections, may they become the fruit of unsurpassable wisdom for all beings.
EN
“Whatever liberation I may have, through it may all sentient beings be released. May I stay neither in saṃsāra nor in nirvāṇa.
“Therefore, children of a noble family, if any sons or daughters of a noble family recite The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates three times by day and three times by night, then, having purified all their karmic obscurations, they will remember their previous lives up to seven lifetimes and will swiftly and fully awaken to unsurpassed perfect buddhahood.”
EN
When the delighted Bhagavān had spoken these words, the assembly of bodhisattvas, and the world with its devas, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced in what the Bhagavān had said.
EN
śubham astu sarvajagatām
EN
ye dharmā hetuprabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hy avadat teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃvādī mahāśramaṇaḥ
Sutraya