Praṇidhānaratnarājanāma

🤓 Admin Zone 🛠️ hidden to non-admins

view on research edit on research Add an excerpt Add a bilingual page Add full text subpage

प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम

Praṇidhānaratnarājanāma

སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།

smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po

An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)

Text

LibraryTextsBibliography Full text available

Please note that many items in our library are simply pages that represent a detailed library catalog entry and citation of someone else's work, presentation, or performance. Read our General Disclaimer for more information.

Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

The Praṇidhānaratnarājanāma ("An Aspirational Prayer called 'the King of Jewels'") is a short aspirational prayer attributed to Nāgārjuna, structured as a series of bodhisattva aspirations modeled on the qualities and conduct of celebrated bodhisattvas including Mañjuśrī, Avalokiteśvara, Samantabhadra, Maitreya, Vajrapāṇi, Akṣayamati, Ākāśagarbha, Kṣitigarbha, and others. The prayer encompasses the seven-branch practice of homage, offering, confession, rejoicing in merit, requesting the buddhas to remain, and dedication, and concludes with the aspiration to benefit all beings throughout the ten directions. The text was translated into Tibetan at Samye Lhündrup Tse by the Indian paṇḍita Vanaratna and the monk Sönam Gyatso.

Read the Full Text

Reference

Nāgārjuna (slob dpon chen po klu sgrub). praṇidhānaratnarājanāma [प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम]. smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po [སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།]. [An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3729 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3729&typ=2.

Interconnections

Works related to this item

Praṇidhānaratnarājanāma/Full text

Nāgārjuna (slob dpon chen po klu sgrub). praṇidhānaratnarājanāma [प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम]. smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po [སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།]. [An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3729 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3729&typ=2.

Go to the page with the definition of 'praṇidhānaratnarājanāma'

Nāgārjuna (slob dpon chen po klu sgrub). praṇidhānaratnarājanāma [प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम]. smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po [སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།]. [An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3729 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3729&typ=2.

Go to the page with the definition of 'smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po'

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

Go to the page with the definition of 'bodhisattva'

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

Go to the page with the definition of 'bodhisattva'

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

Go to the page with the definition of 'bodhisattvas'

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

Go to the page with the definition of 'bodhisattvas'

Pāpadeśanā - The Buddhist practice of 'confession' or 'laying aside evil.' It involves honestly acknowledging past mistakes and negative actions with regret, then committing not to repeat them. This process helps clear the mind of guilt and negative karmic imprints, creating space for positive qualities to grow. Skt पापदेशना  Tib སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པ་  Ch 懺悔;披露罪過  

Go to the page with the definition of 'confession'

Anumodanā - The practice of feeling genuine joy and appreciation for the good deeds, success, and positive qualities of others. It is a powerful way to overcome jealousy and build positive energy by simply delighting in the virtue found in the world. Skt अनुमोदना  Tib རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་བ་  Ch 隨喜  

Go to the page with the definition of 'rejoicing'

Puṇya - The positive energy or potential created through performing good deeds, such as generosity or kindness. In Buddhism, accumulating this positive force is seen as essential for finding happiness in future lives, and crucial as a foundation for following the spiritual path. Skt पुण्य  Tib བསོད་ནམས་  Ch 福;功德  

Go to the page with the definition of 'merit'

Pariṇāmanā - The Buddhist practice of 'dedicating' or giving away the positive energy from one's good deeds for the benefit of others. It ensures that the goodness created is shared with all beings and directed toward the ultimate goal of enlightenment, preventing it from being exhausted. Skt परिणामना  Tib བསྔོ་བ་  Ch 迴向  

Go to the page with the definition of 'dedication'

Nāgārjuna (slob dpon chen po klu sgrub). praṇidhānaratnarājanāma [प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम]. smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po [སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།]. [An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3729 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3729&typ=2.

Go to the page with the definition of 'प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम'

Nāgārjuna (slob dpon chen po klu sgrub). praṇidhānaratnarājanāma [प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम]. smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po [སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།]. [An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3729 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3729&typ=2.

Go to the page with the definition of 'སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།'

Nāgārjuna (slob dpon chen po klu sgrub). praṇidhānaratnarājanāma [प्रणिधानरत्नराजनाम]. smon lam rin po che'i rgyal po [སྨོན་ལམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།]. [An Aspirational Prayer called "the King of Jewels" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3729 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3729&typ=2.

Go to the page with the definition of 'RKTST 3729'