As people around the world entered into successive waves of Coronavirus-induced uncertainty and sufferings, we had many of our friends and followers asking us for inspiring content to help get us through this challenging time of distancing, quarantines, and lockdowns. We are now excited to share with you a new project!

Our editorial team has fast-tracked the translation and publication of short sūtras traditionally recited for resilience and well-being, and we are bringing them together here as “Sūtras for Well-Being.” This series shares the stories behind these beautiful texts and the mantras within them that have traditionally focused minds in times of uncertainty. In such difficult times as many of us face today, remaining cognizant of the fact that all things will pass, may well be one source of resilience and well-being.

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The Dhāraṇī of Tārā
སྒྲོལ་མའི་གཟུངས།
Tārādhāraṇī
Toh 729

The Dhāraṇī of Tārā is a short incantation (dhāraṇī) that invokes the goddess Tārā, seeking her intervention in the face of obstacles and negative forces.
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh729.html

Ep. 7 | "The Dhāraṇī of Tārā" recited by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

DJKR - Interdependent Arise Mantra Whisper Version

This precious recording was captured in Taipei same time with seven diamond line prayers chanted by DJKR. I hold it for 10 years wondering what kinda music will go along with it. and magic finally happened in Kathmandu summer 2023.  Enjoy.

Youtube Music Video:
https://youtu.be/CH-Hnos_6as

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"To the one who teaches dependent arising,
Which is peace and the pacification of complexity—
No cessation, no birth,
No nihilism, no eternalism,
No coming, no going,
Not many things, not one thing—
To the perfect Buddha, the best of teachers,
We prostrate."

                                                                - Nagarjuna

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here are some links related to this mantra

it Depends. (related teaching by DJKR )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARy9PKg3xd4&t=5s

Wiki about this mantra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratītyasamutpāda_gāthā

Other recording versions from Kumarajiva Project
https://www.ymfz.org/music_toh021/?lang=en

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DJKR - interdependent Arise Mantra Whisper Version (Tadi Remix)

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DJKR - Interdependent Arise Mantra Whisper Version (Tadi's 6 min mix)

Recitation in Tibetan of the praise to the 35 Buddha for prostration.

Praise of the 35 Buddhas. Recitation For Prostrations

An assortment of Buddhist prayers and chants

King of Aspiration Prayers – Aspiration to Good Conduct

Arranged by Ricky Kej

Lead Vocals: Ani Choying Drolma
Choral Vocals and Vocal Arrangements: Devan Ekambaram
Solo Violin: Manoj George
Strings: Raveolution Orchestra
Raveolution Strings Conducted and Arranged by Manoj George
Violins: Manoj George, Augustine Sandy, Siby Manuel, Jeoffrey Martin, Reuben James, Dawn Jos
Violas: Manoj George, Augustine Sandy, Reuben James, Siby Manuel
Vocal Arrangements and Vocals: Devan Ekambaram
Keyboards and Programming: Vanil Veigas, Ricky Kej
Dan Bau: Hai Phuong
Bass: Dominic D’Cruz

Recorded by Vanil Veigas at Raveolution Studios, India
Strings recorded by Prabhakar M S at SSP Bangalore, India
Dan Bau recorded by Nguyen Duy Nghia at Musicfaces Recording Studio, Saigon, Vietnam
Mixed by Vanil Veigas, PA Deepak


CD1 Vishwa (Ani Choying Drolma, Hai Phuong)

21 Praises To Tara - Chanted By The 17th Karmapa

Ani Choying- Green  Tara  Mantra

The Mahāsūtra “On Entering the City of Vaiśālī”
ཡངས་པའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་མདོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Vaiśālīpraveśamahāsūtra
Toh 312

Invited to visit the city of Vaiśālī, which has been ravaged by a terrible epidemic, the Buddha instructs Ānanda to stand at the city’s gate and recite a proclamation, a long mantra, and some verses that powerfully evoke spiritual well-being. Ānanda does so, and the epidemic comes to an end. One of the mahāsūtras related to the literature of the Vinaya, this text, like other accounts of the incident, has traditionally been recited during times of personal or collective illness, bereavement, and other difficulties.

We are humbled to share here both a recitation in Tibetan by our Founding Chair, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, as well as a recitation in English (https://soundcloud.com/translate84000/toh-312-entering-the-great-city-of-vaishali-recited-by-gary-dyson) to help those unsure of where or how to begin.

So open the text in our Reading Room (https://read.84000.co), and recite along!
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh312.html

Ep. 1 | Tibetan | "On Entering the City of Vaiśālī" recited by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

The Mahāsūtra “On Entering the City of Vaiśālī”
ཡངས་པའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་མདོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Vaiśālīpraveśamahāsūtra
Toh 312

Invited to visit the city of Vaiśālī, which has been ravaged by a terrible epidemic, the Buddha instructs Ānanda to stand at the city’s gate and recite a proclamation, a long mantra, and some verses that powerfully evoke spiritual well-being. Ānanda does so, and the epidemic comes to an end. One of the mahāsūtras related to the literature of the Vinaya, this text, like other accounts of the incident, has traditionally been recited during times of personal or collective illness, bereavement, and other difficulties.

We are humbled to share here both a recitation in English, as well as a recitation in Tibetan by our Founding Chair, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche(https://soundcloud.com/translate84000/toh-312-entering-the-great-city-of-vaishali-recited-by-dzongsar-khyentse-rinpoche) to help those unsure of where or how to begin.

So open the text in our Reading Room (https://read.84000.co), and recite along!
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh312.html

Ep. 1 | English | "On Entering the City of Vaiśālī" recited and produced by Gary Dyson

Dedication “Protecting All Beings” (Toh 286) is a prayer of dedication that strongly resonates with the later Tibetan literature of mind training (blo sbyong). In addition to the classic element of dedication of merit to all beings, a substantial part of the text comprises a passage that enumerates the many faults, shortcomings, and afflictions that burden sentient beings, as well as the many possible attainments that they consequently may not have realized, and culminates in the wish that everything negative that would otherwise ripen for sentient beings may ripen instead for the reciter, so that all sentient beings would thus be liberated and purified.

https://read.84000-translate.org/translation/toh286.html

This second episode in our Sūtras for Well-Being series focuses on two closely related, and recently published texts:
- The Dedication “Fulfilling All Aspirations” (https://read.84000.co/translation/toh285.html) and 
- The Dedication “Protecting All Beings.” (https://read.84000.co/translation/toh286.html)

And today, we are thrilled to share with you both Tibetan and English readings of these texts by two widely respected teachers of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition: Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche (English) and Pema Wangyal Rinpoche (Tibetan).

Open the texts in our online Reading Room (https://84000.co/translations/reading-room/), and follow along with the audio in the station above!

Ep. 2.2 | English | "The Dedication: Protecting All Beings" recited by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche

The Dedication “Fulfilling All Aspirations” (Toh 285) is a prayer of dedication, and is meant to be recited. Its structure partly reflects the liturgy of “seven branches” or “seven limbs,” a set of practices that serves as the basic structure of many Mahāyāna Buddhist prayers and rituals. In this instance, however, the text consists of two sections: the first is a detailed prayer of confession, and the second a prayer of rejoicing, requesting that the wheel of the Dharma be turned, beseeching the buddhas not to pass into nirvāṇa, and extensively dedicating the merit.

https://read.84000-translate.org/translation/toh285.html

This second episode in our Sūtras for Well-Being series focuses on two closely related, and recently published texts:
- The Dedication “Fulfilling All Aspirations” (https://read.84000.co/translation/toh285.html) and 
- The Dedication “Protecting All Beings.” (https://read.84000.co/translation/toh286.html)

And today, we are thrilled to share with you both Tibetan and English readings of these texts by two widely respected teachers of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition: Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche (English) and Pema Wangyal Rinpoche (Tibetan).

Open the texts in our online Reading Room (https://84000.co/translations/reading-room/), and follow along with the audio in the station above!

Ep. 2.1 | English | "The Dedication: Fulfilling All Aspirations" recited by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche

Kuntuzangpo Molam, Bir, India - 21 June 2020
During the solar eclipse of 21 June 2020 Siddhartha's Intent hosted a global recitation of the Samantabhadra Aspiration Prayer.
We were fortunate to receive a teaching from Rinpoche, who painted a picture of the mind that, for lack of a better word, "composed" a prayer which has no composer: our naked cognisance, our naked awareness. The Kuntuzangpo prayer is just there; it's being recited and answered all the time. When a beautiful sunrise appears, if the owl doesn't see it because it's blind, too bad! If we can't see these prayers that are being answered, we're like an owl. There's not much we can do, just pray not to be an owl, which is what we do when we recite the prayer.
For comments, please visit: www.facebook.com/djkhyentse/
For more information, please visit our website: www.siddharthasintent.org

Samatabhadra Prayer

Kuntuzangpo Monlam, 21 June 2020 - Bir, India

During the solar eclipse of 21 June 2020 Siddhartha's Intent hosted a global recitation of the Samantabhadra Aspiration Prayer.

We were fortunate to receive a teaching from Rinpoche, who painted a picture of the mind that, for lack of a better word, "composed" a prayer which has no composer: our naked cognisance, our naked awareness. The Kuntuzangpo prayer is just there; it's being recited and answered all the time. When a beautiful sunrise appears, if the owl doesn't see it because it's blind, too bad! If we can't see these prayers that are being answered, we're like an owl. There's not much we can do, just pray not to be an owl, which is what we do when we recite the prayer.

For comments, please visit: www.facebook.com/siddharthasintent
For more information, please visit our website: www.siddharthasintent.org

Samantabhadra Aspiration Prayer Mix by Richard Page

Kanho Yakushiji is a zen monk and musician.

Shakyamuni Mantra by Kanho Yakushiji 釈迦如来真言

This short text marks the fifth episode in 84000's Sūtras for Well-Being series, a look at the sūtras traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them. The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm" contains a set of verses spoken by the Buddha as he put an end to the epidemic of Vaiśālī, extracted from one of the two main accounts of that episode. The verses call for well-being, especially by invoking the qualities of the Three Jewels and a range of realized beings and eminent gods. The text comprises two passages from the parent work, and of these the first and longest corresponds closely to a well-known Pali text, the Ratana-sutta, widely recited for protection and blessings. 

We hope this audio rendition in Tibetan, by Garchen Rinpoche, helps brings the power of the text alive, and we encourage you to visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series includings our IGTV video episodes: 84000.co/wellbeing

第五集 | 《大千摧破經所說誓願文》 ｜噶千仁波切親頌藏文版

84000近期推出英譯版「消災祈福」系列經典，望全球疫情早日平息，人心安樂。《大千摧破經所說誓願文》 為佛陀平息毘舍離城之瘟疫後宣說的偈頌，摘錄自記敘此事件的兩部典籍之一。頌詞稱說三寶與許多證悟者及天神之功德，為世間祈請安樂。此文有一段落與著名的巴利文佛經《寶經》之內容相仿，後者是人們為消災祈福而廣泛持誦的經典。

尊貴的噶千仁波切為我們唸誦藏文版經文。

Ep. 6 | Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm" read by Garchen Rinpoche

his short text marks the fifth episode in 84000's Sūtras for Well-Being series, a look at the sūtras traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them. The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm" contains a set of verses spoken by the Buddha as he put an end to the epidemic of Vaiśālī, extracted from one of the two main accounts of that episode. The verses call for well-being, especially by invoking the qualities of the Three Jewels and a range of realized beings and eminent gods. The text comprises two passages from the parent work, and of these the first and longest corresponds closely to a well-known Pali text, the Ratana-sutta, widely recited for protection and blessings. 

We hope this audio rendition in English, by Sarah K.C. Wilkinson, helps brings the power of the text alive, and we encourage you to visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series includings our IGTV video episodes: 84000.co/wellbeing

第五集｜《大千摧破經所說誓願文》 ｜英文版讀誦者：Sarah K.C. Wilkinson

84000近期推出英譯版「消災祈福」系列經典，望全球疫情早日平息，人心安樂。《大千摧破經所說誓願文》 為佛陀平息毘舍離城之瘟疫後宣說的偈頌，摘錄自記敘此事件的兩部典籍之一。頌詞稱說三寶與許多證悟者及天神之功德，為世間祈請安樂。此文有一段落與著名的巴利文佛經《寶經》之內容相仿，後者是人們為消災祈福而廣泛持誦的經典。

Sarah K.C. Wilkinson為我們唸誦英文版經文。

Ep. 6 | Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm" read by Sarah K.C. Wilkinson

Today we share with you a recording of Mayum Kunsang Dechen reciting the recently published, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," as well as one of Yoshiko Crow reading the text in English.  

For Tibetan Buddhists, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," [https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] is undoubtedly the most popular prayer to the deity Tārā. It is recited on a daily basis by many monks, nuns, and lay practitioners.

As the pandemic continues, and environmental and social uncertainty rage around the world, we continue on with our Sūtras for Well-Being series to bring to you the texts traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them.

Visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series: https://84000.co/wellbeing

第六集 |《度母二十一禮讚》｜藏文版唸誦者：佛母昆桑德欽

84000近期出版了新英文版《度母二十一禮讚》。在此於各位分享由佛母昆桑德欽唸誦的藏文原文，以及由Emily Yoshiko Crow唸誦的英文版新譯經文。

《度母二十一禮讚》[https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] 是藏傳佛教最受歡迎的度母禮讚文，經常出現於出家眾與在家眾的日常修持中。

在全球疫情持續蔓延的不安時期，84000特選了一些常於病疾災害降臨時被人們廣泛讀誦的「消災祈福」系列經典與大家分享，望能藉此為世界祈福。

Ep. 5 | Tibetan | "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage" recited by Mayum Kunsang Dechen

Today we share with you a recording of Mayum Kunsang Dechen reciting the recently published, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," as well as one of Emily Avery Yoshiko Crow reading the text in English.  

For Tibetan Buddhists, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," [https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] is undoubtedly the most popular prayer to the deity Tārā. It is recited on a daily basis by many monks, nuns, and lay practitioners.

As the pandemic continues, and environmental and social uncertainty rage around the world, we continue on with our Sūtras for Well-Being series to bring to you the texts traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them.

Visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series: https://84000.co/wellbeing

第六集｜《度母二十一禮讚》｜英文版唸誦者：Emily Yoshiko Crow
84000近期出版了新英文版《度母二十一禮讚》。在此於各位分享由佛母昆桑德欽唸誦的藏文原文，以及由Emily Yoshiko Crow唸誦的英文版新譯經文。

《度母二十一禮讚》[https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] 是藏傳佛教最受歡迎的度母禮讚文，經常出現於出家眾與在家眾的日常修持中。

在全球疫情持續蔓延的不安時期，84000特選了一些常於病疾災害降臨時被人們廣泛讀誦的「消災祈福」系列經典與大家分享，望能藉此為世界祈福。

Ep. 5 | "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage" recited by Emily Avery Yoshiko Crow

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