Prayer to Buddha and Bodhisattva Manjushri <br />Prayer to Manjushri <br />Obeisance to my Guru and Protector, Manjushri. <br />You hold to your heart a scripture symbolic of seeing all things as they are. <br />Your sun-like understanding shines unclouded by defilements or traces of ignorance. <br />With the loving compassion of a father for his only son, <br />You teach in sixty ways all beings caught in the prison of samsara, who are confused in the darkness of their ignorance and overwhelmed by suffering. <br />Your dragon-thunder proclamation of the Dharma arouses us from the stupor of our delusions and frees us from the iron chains of our karma. <br />Your powerful sword of wisdom hews down suffering wherever its sprouts appear, clearing away the darkness of all ignorance. <br />Your princely body is adorned with the 112 marks of a Buddha. <br />You have completed the ten stages, achieving the highest perfection of a Bodhisattva. <br />You have been pure from the beginning. I prostrate to You, Manjushri. <br />OM A RA PA TZA NA DHIH <br />Compassionate One, with the brilliance of your wisdom, illuminate the darkness enclosing my mind. <br />Enlighten my intelligence and wisdom, so that I may gain insight into the Buddha's words and the texts that explain them.
