Venerable Master Hsuan Hua chanting the first 29 lines of Shurangama
Mantra >>
LBSM Home Page 長堤聖寺主頁宣公上人念誦〈楞嚴咒〉頭二十九句咒文
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How-to:
The Great Shurangama Samadhi -- Direct the
Hearing Inward to Hear Your Own Nature >>
LBSM Home Page 長堤聖寺主頁如何修持：楞嚴大定
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反聞聞自性
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Heart of Shurangama Mantra, Vow of
Rebirth in the Pure Land, the Three Refuges, Universal Worthy
Bodhisattva's Verse of Exhortation & "Namo Amitofo"
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Amitabha
Buddha Recitation page 咒心、淨土文、三皈依、普賢菩薩警眾偈、南無阿彌陀佛 >>
持名念佛網頁
- Venerable Master
Hsuan Hua explains the Esoteric School >>
The Five Schools page
宣公上人密宗略說 >> 五教並進網頁
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- For audio, video and
text files to learn the Great Compassion Mantra, see our
Calendar page, under Great Compassion
Repentance. (You may also like to check out
The Heart Sutra for an explanation of mantras, Om Mani Padme Hum and
Medicine Master Buddha's True Words for Anointing the Crown)
學會大悲咒：唱誦和文字檔，見法會時間表網頁，大悲懺海報下（也可參看心經關於咒的解説、六字大明咒[Om
Mani Padme Hum]和藥師灌頂真言。）
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- This link has now been fixed:
Recite Mantras with a Proper and Sincere Mind... after
we learn the Shurangama Mantra, we must constantly keep a compassionate
frame of mind...Single-minded concentration is
efficacious...what's meant by single-minded concentration?.... --A Dharma talk by Venerable Master Hsuan
Hua
...Great Master Hongren, the Fifth Patriarch...decided to
try to save the people in that city....
- Why will they say the Shurangama Sutra is spurious? Because
the Shurangama Sutra tells about all their faults. It
discusses their kinds of deviant knowledge and deviant views....
- If there hadn’t been any
Shurangama Mantra in the Shurangama Sutra...there wouldn’t have
been any reason to speak the Sutra....
The History of Transmission &
Translation:
...[Great Master Zhi Yi] was moved to bow to the west in
the hope that he would one day see this Sutra...every day for 18
years...
...[Dharma Master Paramiti] cut open his arm and placed
the small scroll inside his flesh....
...“Which is more beautiful,” the
Buddha asked [Sundarananda], “these monkeys or your wife Sundari?”
..Out
of a horse’s belly into the womb of a cow. How many times back and forth
have you passed by Yama’s halls, As you go from Shakra’s palaces down
into Yama’s pot?
...Shakyamuni
Buddha was a deer, the leader of a herd of 500....
(You may like
to start with the
Contents page or the detailed outlines from the PDF files below for topics of interest such as:
- Volume 1:
The Buddha dispatched Manjushri Bodhisattva to rescue the Venerable Ananda
with the Shurangama Mantra.
- Volume 4:
Why do all conditioned appearances such as the mountains, the
rivers, and the great earth suddenly arise? ....if the nature of earth
is pervasive, how can it contain water? If the nature of water is pervasive,
then fire does not arise. Further, how do you explain that the natures of
fire and water can each pervade empty space with out displacing one another?
...the nature of earth is solid; the nature of emptiness is penetrating. How
can they both pervade the dharma-realm?
- Part 6:
The Four Clear Exhortations of Purity--the cutting off of lust, killing,
stealing and false speech, and the proclamation of Shurangama Mantra
and its benefits.
- Part 7:
the Gradual Stages, the Bodhisattva Stages, and the Seven Destinies.
May we suggest learning a couple lines a day from the text
file, and following along the audio file the best you can? It has
taken others days, weeks, months, or in some cases, even years to learn
Shurangama Mantra by heart. The length of time varies with
individuals, but all the same, the key is to be persistent. If you
ever get stuck on a line or need help, feel free to contact a branch
monastery near you. (Check the list of branches on our
home page, or search the
DRBA or
DRBA Chinese web
pages.)
If you are starting out to learn the Mantra, you might like to record
your own recitation. Since there are 5 sections to the Mantra, you
could record and learn one section at a time. 如果您開始學誦楞嚴咒，建議您錄自己的念誦。楞嚴咒分五會，一次錄一會，跟著自己的念誦學。
Since the 2nd section is the
shortest in length, you might consider starting with section 2 first.
由於第二會最短，您或可從第二會著手。
In the beginning, it might
take 30 minutes to recite the entire Mantra. In the end, it might
take less than 5 minutes. Read below for Venerable Master Hua's
commentary on how the Mantra should flow forth from your heart.
開始學，念一遍可能需30分鐘，熟了之後，不到5分鐘。以下是宣公上人解説，要能背到像自己心裏流出來。
...[T]hrough kalpa after kalpa they will not be poor or lowly, nor
will they be born in unpleasant places. I've told you that if
you can memorize the Shurangama Mantra to the point that it flows
forth from your mind and heart, then you have obtained the samadhi
of holding the mantra.
Once you obtain that, if you can recite it like flowing water which
never ceases, then at the very, very least, you can be fabulously
wealthy for seven lives. If you continue reciting it in this way for
life after life, you can be wealthy for seventy or seven hundred or
seven thousand or seven million lives; there's nothing fixed about
it. As long as you want to be a wealthy person, you can be one...
At the City of
Ten Thousand Buddhas, on Saturdays at
the close of the Shurangama Mantra Recitation for World Peace, the following
dedication verse is chanted:
Verse of
Dedication
May these
adornments and pure merit and virtue
Be dedicated to
the Dharma protecting dragons and gods,
To the mountain
and river spirits of the Three Realms,
And to the
guardians who watch over our Sangharamas.
We pray that
blessings, peace and goodness
Be an adornment
to the Unsurpassed Bodhi,
Vowing that
all--friends and foes--throughout the Dharma Realm
Will together
enter the sea of Vairochana's nature.
萬佛城平時每星期六上午念楞嚴咒，念完後的迴向偈如下：
以此嚴淨功德 迴向護法龍天
三界嶽瀆靈聰 守護伽藍真宰
祈福保安平善 莊嚴無上菩提
普願法界冤親 共入毗如性海
Some quick tips on pin yin
"q" is pronounced like
"ch",
"x" like "sh",
"zh" like
"j"
"ai" like the word
"eye",
"ao" like the
"ou" in the word
"out"
"e" like the "e" in the word "earl', e.g., e,
he and zhe; or like
"eh", e.g., ye, jie, qie and xie,
"i" like "ee",
"o" like
the word "awe",
"u" like "w" or "oo", e.g., duo and pu;
or like the word
"you", e.g., ju.
Take the first six lines for example::
1) NA MO SA DAN TUO
("MO" is pronounced "m-awe"; "TUO" is pronounced "t-w-awe",
not "2")
- "Sye" in line 4,
187, 232, 363, 434: "Sye" is pronounced "sh-ee-eh". The "s" is pronounced "sh".
The "y" is like the "ee" in "cheese", and the "e" like the
first "e" in "edge".
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Likewise, in line 553, "syin" is pronounced "sh-ee-n" just like
the word "sheen".
Quick tips:
- "Chye"
in line 2: "Chy" is like the "chee" in "cheese"; and the "e" is like
the first "e" in "edge".
- "Ye" in
line 2: The "e" i"s also like the first "e" in "edge".
- "Di" in
line 3: Like the "dee" in "deed", and the same goes for all the ending
i's such as:
Chanting
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