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Manjushri (Sanskrit: मञ्जुश्री, romanized: Mañjuśrī) is a bodhisattva who represents prajñā (transcendent wisdom) of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
The Āryamañjuśrīmūlakalpa (The Noble Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī) is a Mahāyāna sūtra and a Mantrayāna ritual manual (kalpa) affiliated with the bodhisattva of wisdom, Mañjuśrī.
Many of Mañjuśrīmitra's works deal with a tantric text Mañjuśrīnāmasamgīti.. He was the person who divided the Dzogchen teachings into three series of Semde, Longdé and Manngagde.
The Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti (Tibetan: འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད, Wylie: 'jam dpal mtshan brjod) (hereafter, Nama-samgiti) is considered amongst the most advanced teachings given by the Shakyamuni Buddha.
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
The layman Vimalakīrti debates Manjusri, Dunhuang Mogao Caves. In the Vimalakirtinirdeśa, composed some time between the first and second century CE, [108] the bodhisattva Vimalakīrti appears as a layman to teach the Dharma. This is seen by some as a strong assertion of the value of lay practice. [109]
The tantra literature, however, says that the Mantrayana leads one to Buddhahood in a single lifetime. [49] According to the literature, the mantra is an easy path without the difficulties innate to the Paramitayana. [49] Mantrayana is sometimes portrayed as a method for those of inferior abilities. [49]
Mantrayana ritual theory generally held that the use of esoteric practices like mantras and mudras allowed the tantric practitioner to reproduce and embody the power of the Buddhas. [35] This could be used to achieve liberation or for other magical means. For example, according to the Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī, a Mantrayana ritual ...