This is the first English translation of one of the most revered and often-used tantric texts in Tibetan Buddhism - the Manjusri-nama-samgiti. While consisting of only 160 verses and some mantra sentences, the work condenses an enormous tantric lore, so much that it garnered exalted mention in the Vimalaprabha - the great commentary on the Kalacakra - and is cited a number of times in the celebrated tantrist Naropa's Hevajratantra commentary.

Chanting the Names of Manjusri sets the English translation of this important text alongside the complete original Sanskrit, with its Tibetan translation. The format of presenting the three translations side-by-side, along with pertinent extracts from the Tanjur commentaries on the work, creates an ideal situation for study.

About the Author

Alex Wayman became Professor of Sanskrit at Columbia University in 1967 and has the title Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit, effective July 1991. among his awards are the honorary D. Litt. At Nalanda University, India (April, 1978); and a work in his honor Researches in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy (Delhi, 1993). His main contribution to Sanskrit per se is his translation of the Visvalocana lexicon (published in Japan, 1994). Otherwise, his publications have been in non-Tantric and Tantric Buddhism, using the Sanskrit and Tibetan languages, with a stream of books and articles now over a hundred and fifty, and which steadily increase. Now he is busy completing a two-volume treatise on Buddhist Logic, on which he had worked as time allowed for many years; and is continuing to write essays on important topics of Indian lore.

Contents:

FOREWORD 
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   PART ONE

   INTRODUCTION
1. BACKGROUND OF THE MANJUSRI-NAMA-SAMGITI
2. CITATIONS OF THE MANJUSRI-NAMA-SAMGITI IN 
   NARO-PA'S COMMENTARY
3. THE SEVEN MANDALAS OF THE MANJUSRI-NAMA-SAMGITI
4. REMARKS ON THE TIBETAN TEXT OF THE MANJUSRI-NAMA-SAMGITI
5. THE SIX CYCLES OF PRAISE
   TEXTS USED FOR THE SANSKRIT - TIBETAN EDITION AND 
   ANNOTATIONS 
     CORRECTIONS TO MINAFEE'S SANSKRIT TEXT
   NOTES

   PART TWO

   TRASLATION OF THE MANJUSRI-NAMA-SAMGITI WITH SANSKRIT 
   AND TIBETAN TEXTS AND ANNOTATIONS
   I. ASKING FOR INSTRUCTION
  II. THE REPLY
 III. SURVEYING THE SIX FAMILIES
  IV. ABHISAMBODHI SEQUENCE OF THE NET OF ILLUSION  
   V. THE GREAT MANDALA OF VAJRADHATU
  VI. PURE DHARMADHATU WISDOM 
 VII. PRAISING THE MIRRORLIKE WISDOM
VIII. DISCRIMINATIVE WISDOM
  IX. SAMENESS WISDOM 
   X. PROCEDURE-OF DUTY WISDOM
  XI. PRAISE OF THE FIVE TATHAGATAS
 XII. EXHIBITION OF MANTRAS
XIII. THE SUMMING UP

INDEX OF SANSKRIT FIRST PADA'S
INDEX OF TIBETAN FIRST LINES
INDEX OF THE TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATIONS

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