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The Sacred Name of Kṣitigarbha

  • Sep 7, 2014
  • 1 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོའི་མཚན་ནི།

(sa yi snying po’i mtshan ni)

The Sacred Name of Kṣitigarbha


བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།

JANG-CH’UP–SEM-PA SEM-PA-CH’EN-PO SA-YI-NYING-PO LA CH’AK-TSËL LO

I bow down to the Bodhisattva Mahāsattva, Kṣitigarbha!

མཆོད་དོ།

CH’ÖD DO

I make offerings!

སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ།

KYAP SU CH’I O

I go for refuge!

[Alternate translation:

I prostrate, venerate, and go for refuge to the Bodhisattva Mahāsattva, Kṣitigarbha!]

Translated by Erick Tsiknopoulos, September 2014

Gilded cloisonné Kṣitigarbha statue crowned and holding a monk's staff
 
 
 

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