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Manjushri Bodhisattva of Great Wisdom (one with Yamantaka-Vajrabhairava) – Mañjushri (Skt. Mañjuśrī; Tib. འཇམ་དཔལ་, འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་, Jampalyang; Wyl. ‘jam dpal dbyang; Chi.: 文殊, Wenshu, Pin. Wénshū)) or Mañjughosha (Skt. Mañjughoṣa; Tib. འཇམ་དབྱངས་, Jamyang; Wyl. ‘jam dbyangs; ‘the Gentle Voiced’) is one of the eight great Bodhisattvas who were the closest disciples of the Buddha. In this form, he sometimes appears whitish-green in color and holding a lily to symbolize renunciation of the destructive emotions.

He is the embodiment of the knowledge and wisdom of all the Buddhas, traditionally depicted with a sword in his right and a text in his left hand.

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo says: “In definitive terms, Mañjushri, you are now, and from the very beginning you have always been, a genuine Buddha, in whom all the qualities of abandonment and realization are totally perfected, because you completely traversed all ten Bhumis, such as the Joyous and so on, and purified the two obscurations, together with any latent habitual tendencies, many incalculable aeons ago. Nevertheless, from a merely provisional perspective, you appear as the foremost of all the Bodhisattvas, and demonstrate the means of training as a Bodhisattva in the presence of all the victorious ones and their heirs throughout the ten directions. Moreover, from the perspective of the Mantrayana, there is no doubt whatsoever that you, Mañjushri, are a Buddha. In fact, this is even stated in the sutras. In the Sutra of the Array of Mañjushri’s Pure Land, for example, it says you have completed the ten bhumis. And in two other sutras—the Shurangama-samadhi Sutra and the Angulimala Sutra—you are clearly referred to as a
Buddha.

Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Skt. Manjushri Nama Samgiti – Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti) Tib. འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད་, Wyl.‘jam dpal mtshan brjod) (Toh. 360) — a famous praise of Manjushri, sometimes known as the ‘king of all tantras‘. Taught directly by Buddha Shakyamuni, the tantra lists names that praise Manjushri, who is here to be understood not as a bodhisattva but as the embodiment of the primordial wisdom of all buddhas. It consists of 160 verses and mantra sentences. In spite of the text’s length and difficulty, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö famously memorized it after reading it only once.^[1]

Chanting the Names of Manjushri consists of 160 verses and mantra sentences of praise to Manjushri, the bodhisattva of transcendent wisdom. 15 Pages. 2003 Edition. (B00WHAJK02)

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The very first entry in the tantra section of the Buddhist canon translated into Tibetan, right before the Kalachakra root tantra, is the Jampal Tsenjod (‘jam dpal ye shes sems dpa’i don dam pa’i mtshan yang dag par brjod pa)—Professing The Qualities of Manjusri (Chanting the Names of Manjushri)

The Indian Buddhist masters who first brought their tantric tradition to Tibet treated this text as fundamental to the view and practice of both maha yoga and ati yoga (or dzogchen), the non-dual dharma.

Presented here, alongside a new translation of the root text that seeks to convey its poetic brilliance as a classical masterpiece of world literature, are three original commentaries, two by Indian masters (Vimalamitra and Garab Dorje) and one by the renowned eleventh century Tibetan master Rongzom Mahapandita, which together provide a complete view of the critical meaning and importance of this text within the Nyingma tradition, and for the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings in general.