Itgel ( Tib. སྐྱབས་ འདྲོ་ སེམས་ བསྐྱེད ། - coming to refuge and the birth of bodhichitta; Mongol. Itgel yavuulkhyn Yes - the rule of confession of faith) is a " symbol of faith " [1] in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism . The text contains the fundamental tenets of Vajrayana Buddhism and is extremely widely used in the cult practice of the Gelug school up to the present. One of the few texts whose knowledge was imputed to all believing Gelugpins in Tibet and Mongolia .
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Cult Practice
“ Such a prayer should naturally find great use for itself, and, indeed, it can be heard not only at every service, it can be found not only at every llama, but almost in the house of every commoner .” [2] This text was also at the beginning of all the confusions (“prayer books”) of the Gelug school, and was also used at the beginning of tantric practices .
Throughout Tibet ... not only llamas, but even commoners who were not entering the temple otherwise than having previously read the “men”, “itegel” ( creed ) and “ mikjim ”. Most people know these prayers by heart, but for those unaware and minors, a pillar is dug in front of the doors of the temple, on which are mentioned remembered prayers from all sides. In large monasteries, where a lot of people gather and where believers find it inconvenient to go around the pillar to read everything written on it, “ mani ”, “itegel” and “ mikchim ” are written on moving, rotating circles, poles. After reading what is written on one side of the pillar, you turn it and read what is written on the other; the more times you read, the more worthy you enter the temple.
- Pozdneev A. M. Essays on the life of Buddhist monasteries ... [3]
In other schools of Tibetan Buddhism, e.g. karma-kagyu , there are similar texts of similar use.
Text Structure
The authorship of the text is not known for certain. The text is a compilation of texts for taking Buddhist refuge, bodhisattva vows, quotes from the works of Buddhist philosophers, and an abbreviated ritual of invoking the Buddha and offering the mandala. “ If we begin to take apart this prayer in parts, we will find in it ourselves ... all parts of the rapsals : there is a confession of faith, there is praise, there is petition, there is benevolence .” [four]
Taking refuge
| Russian translation [5] | Wiley Transliteration | Tibetan text [6] |
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| We resort to excellent brilliant Teachers ; to the kind Root Teacher and the lineage, which are the nature of the merits and deeds of the body, speech and mind of all Tathagatas of the ten cardinal points and three times, the source of eighty-four thousand codes of teachings, sovereign lords of all holy sanghas . ” | phyogs-bcu bdus-gsum-gyi de-bzhin gshegs-pa thams-cad-kyi sku-gsung-thugs yon-tan 'phrin-las thams-cad-kyi ngo-bor gyur-pa. Chos-kyi phung-po stong-phrag brgyad-bcu rtsa-bzhi-'i 'byung-gnas. 'Phags-pa-'i dge-'dun thams-cad-kyi mnga-bdag dri-can rtsa-ba-dang brgyud-par bcas-pa-'i dpal-ldan bla-ma dam-pa rnams-la skyabs- su-mchi-'o | ཕྱོགས་ བཅུ་ བདུས་ གསུམ་ གྱི་ དེབ ཞིན་ གཤེགས་ པ་ ཐམས་ཅད་ ཀྱི་ སྐུ་ གསུང་ ཐུགས་ ཡོན་ ཏན་ འཕྲིན་ ལས་ ཐམས་ཅད་ ཀྱི་ ངོ་ བོར་ གྱུར་ པ ། ཆོས་ ཀྱི་ ཕུང་ པོ་ སྟོང་ཕྲག་ བརྒྱད་བཅུ་ རྩབཞིའ ི འབྱུང་ གནས ། འཕགས་ པའི་ དགེ་ འདུན་ ཐམས་ཅད་ ཀྱི་ མངའ་ བདག་ དྲིན་ ཅད་ རྩ་བ་ དང་ བརྒྱུད་ པར་ བཅས་ པའི་ དཔལ་ ལྡན་ བླ་ མ་ དམ་པ་ རྣམས་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ །། |
| I resort to the teacher. I resort to the Buddha. I resort to the Dharma. I resort to the Sangha. | bLa-ma-la skyabs-su-mchi-'o. Sangs-rgyas-la skyabs-su-mchi'o. Chos-la skyabs-su-mchi'o. dGe-'dun-la skyabs-su-mchi'o. | བླ་ མ་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ ། ། སངས་ རྒྱས་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ །། ཆོས་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ ། ། དགེ་ འགུན་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ །། |
| I resort to the protection of the host of deities of the mandala of idam, together with his entourage. I resort to excellent radiant Protectors and Patrons, who keep the Doctrine , possessing the eye of primordial knowledge | Yi-dam dkyil-'khor-kyi lha-tshogs' khor-dang dcas-pa rnams-la skyabs-su-mchi'o. dPal-mgon dam-pa chos-skyong-ba'i srung-ma ye-shes-kyi spyon-dang ldan-pa rnams-la skyabs-su-mchi'o. | ཡི་ དམ་ དཀྱིལ་ འཁོར་ ཀྱི་ ལྷ་ ཚོགས་ འཁོར་ དང་ བཅས་ པ་ རྣམ་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ ། དཔལ་ མགོན་ དམ་པ་ ཆོས་ སྐྱོང་ བའི་ སྲུང་ མ་ ཡེ་ ཤེས་ ཀྱི་ སྤྱན་ དང་ པ་ རྣམས་ ལ་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆིའ ོ །། |
| Right up to the Awakening I run To Buddha, Teaching and the Supreme Assembly. Let by giving and other paramitas I will become a buddha for the benefit of all wanderers! | Sangs-rgyas chos-dang tshogs-kyi mchog-rnams-la. Byang-chub bar-du bdag-ni skyabs-su-mchi. bDag-gis sbyin-sogs bgyi-pa 'di-dag-gis. 'Gro-la phan-phyir sangs-rgyas' grub-par-shog. | སངས་ རྒྱས་ ཆོས་ དང་ ཚོགས་ ཀྱི་ མཆོག་ རྣམས་ ལ ། ། བྱང་ ཆུབ་ བར་དུ་ བདག་ ནི་ སྐྱབས་ སུ་ མཆི ། ། བདག་ གིས་ སྦྱིན་ སོགས་ བགྱིས་ པ་ འདི་ དག་ གིས ། ། |
Taking Bodhisattva Vows
| I resort to the Three Jewels . In each of all misconduct I repent. I rejoice in the virtues of creatures. I hold the mind of the Buddha - Bodhi . Right up to the Awakening I run To Buddha, Teaching and the Supreme Assembly, For the benefit of oneself and others The Awakening Mind is engendered in itself. ” Growing an unsurpassed bodhichitta, | dKon-mchog gsum-la bdag-skyabs-mchi. sDig-pa thams-cad so-sor-bshags. 'Gro-ba'i dge-la rjes'i rang. Sangs-rgyas byang-chub yid-kyis zung. Sangs-rgyas chos-dang tshogs mchog-la. Byang-chub bar-du bdag-skyabs-mchi. Rang-gzhan don-ni rab-bsgrub-phyir. Byang-chub sems-ni bskyad-par-gyi. Byang-chub mchog-gi sems-ni bskyed-bgyis-nas. | དཀོན་ མཆོག་ གསུམ་ ལ་ བདག་ སྐྱབ་ མཆི །། སྡིག་པ་ ཐམས་ཅད་ སོ་ སོར་ བཤགས ། ། འགྲོ་ བའི་ དགེ་ ལ་ རྗེས་ ཡི་ རང ། ། སངས་ རྒྱས་ བྱང་ ཆུབ་ ཡིད་ ཀྱིས་ གཟུང ། ། སངས་ རྒྱས་ ཆོས་ དང་ ཚོགས་ མཆོག་ ལ ། ། |
- The origin of the " four immeasurable ":
| May all beings have bliss and causes of bliss! May all beings get rid of suffering and the causes of suffering! May not all beings part with bliss in which there is no suffering! May all beings abide in great equanimity, without attachment to “their own people” and hostility to “strangers”! | Sems-can thams-cad dge-ba-dang bde-ba'i rgyu-dang ldan-par gyur-cig, sems-can thams-cad sdug-bsngal-dang sdung-bsngal-gyi rgyu-dang bral-bar gyur- cig, sems-can thams-cad sdung-bsngal med-pa'i bde-ba-dang mi'bral-bar gyur-cig, sems-can thams-cad nye-ring chags-sdang gnyis-dang bral-ba'i dtang-snyems-la gnas-par gyur-cig. | སེམས་ཅན་ ཐམས་ཅད་ དགེ་བ་ དང་ དགེ་ བའི་ རྒྱུ་ དང་ ལྡན་ པར་ གྱུར་ ཅིག ། སེམས་ཅན་ ཐམས་ཅད་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་ དང་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་ གྱི་ རྒྱུ་ དང་ བྲལ་ བར་ གྱུར་ ཅིག ། སེམས་ཅན་ ཐམས་ཅད་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་ མེད་ པའི་ བདེ་ བ་ དང་ མི་ འབྲལ་ བར་ གྱུར་ ཅིག ། སེམས་ཅན་ ཐམས་ཅད་ ཉེ་ རིང་ ཆགས་ སྡང་ གཉིས་ དང་ བྲལ་ བའི་ བཏང་ སྙོམས་ ལ་ གནས་ པར་ གྱུར་ ཅིག ། |
Praise
This section consists of introductory stanzas of the works of the largest Buddhist philosophers of India.
- The interrogative stanza from “ Prajna mula nama madhyamika karika ” by Nagarjuna .
| I prostrate myself before the most excellent of the preaching perfect buddhas that I set forth interdependently arising, pacifying and completely calming [mental] constructions; [where] there is no suppression and no birth, no cessation and no constancy, no coming and no leaving, no differences and no unity | Gang-gis rten-cig 'brel-bar'byung,' Gag-pa med-pa skyes-med-pa, Chad-pa med-pa rtag-med-pa, 'Ong-ba med-pa' gro-med- pa, Tha-ded don-min don-gcig-min, sPhros-pa nyer-zhi zhi-bstan-pa, rDzogs-pa'i sangs-rgyas smra-rnams-kyi, Dam-pa de-la phyag-'tshal -lo | གང་ གིས་ རྟེན་ ཅིང་ འབྲེལ་ བར་ འབྱུང །། འགག་ པ་ མེད་པ་ སྐྱེ་ མེད་ པ ། ། ཆད་ པ་ མེད་པ་ རྟག་ མེད་ པ ། ། འོང་ བ་ མེད་པ་ འགྲོ་ མེད་ པ ། ། ཐ་ དད་ དོན་ མིན་ དོན་ གཅིག་ མིན ། ། སྤྲོས་ པ་ ཉེར་ ཞི་ ཞི་ བསྟན་ པ ། ། རྫོགས་ པའི་ སངས་ རྒྱས་ སྨྲ་ རྣམས་ ཀྱི ། ། དམ་པ་ དེ་ ལ་ ཕྱག་ འཚལ་ ལོ །། |
- Opening stanza from the Abhisamaya Alankara Nama Prajnaparamita Upadesha Sastra Asanga dedicated to Prajnaparamita :
| I prostrate myself to that Mother of buddhas and the communities of Shravak and Bodhisattvas, which, by knowing all the [foundations], leads to the complete reassurance of the seekers of peace of the Shravak, who, by knowing the ways, fulfills the goals of the world for those who benefit the wanderers, who are truly fulfilled, - sew its variety | Nyan-thos zhi-ba 'tshol-rnams kun-shes nyid-kyis nyer-zhir' khrid-mdzad gand-yin-dang, 'Gro-la phan-par byed-tnams lam-shes nyid-kyis' jig-rten don -sgrub mdzed-pa-gang, gang-dang yang-dag ldan-pa'i thub-rnams-pa kun-ldan sna-tshogs' di-gsung-pa, nya-thos byang-chub sems-pa'i tshogs- bcas sangs-rgyas kyi-ni yum de-la phyag'tshal-lo. | ཉན་ ཐོས་ ཞི་ བ་ འཚོལ་ རྣམས་ ཀུན་ ཤེས་ ཉིད་ ཀྱིས་ ཉེར་ ཞིར་ འཁྲིད་ མཛད་ གང་ ཡིན་ དང ། ། འགྲོ་ ལ་ ཕན་ པར་ བྱེད་ རྣམས་ ལམ་ ཤེས་ ཉིད་ ཀྱིས་ འཇིག་ རྟེན་ སྒྲུབ་ མཛེད་ པ་ གང ། ། གང་ དང་ ཡང་ དག་ ལྡན་ པའི་ ཐུབ་ རྣམས་ རྣམ་ པ་ ཀུན་ ལྡན་ སྣ་ཚོགས་ འདི་ གསུང་ པ ། ། ཉན་ ཐོས་ བྱང་ ཆིབ་ སེམས་ པའི་ ཚོགས་ བཅས་ སངས་ རྒྱས་ ཀྱི་ ནི་ ཡུམ་ དེ་ ལ་ ཕྱག་ འཚལ་ ལོ །། |
- Opening stanza from Pramana Vartika Kariki by Dignagi . By the "bodies" of the Buddha are meant two philosophical traditions of Buddhism - Extensive action ( Vijnanavada ) and Deep understanding ( Madhyamika ).
| Before completely eliminating the network of mind-building, Possessing a Deep and Extensive Body, Omnipotent rays Everywhere flowing - prostrate! | rTog-pa'i dra-ba rnam-bsal-cing, Dzab-cing rgya-che'i sku-mnga 'ba, Kun-tu-bzang-po'i 'od-zerdag, Kun-nas' phrol-la phyag-'thsal-lo. | རྟོག་ པའི་ དྲ་བ་ རྣམ་ བསལ་ ཅིང ། ། ཟབ་ ཅིང་ རྒྱ་ ཆེའ ི་ སྐུ་ མང་ བ ། ། ཀུན་ ནས་ འཕྲོ་ ལ་ ཕྱག་ འཚལ་ ལོ ། ། ཀུན་ ཏུ་ བཟང་ པོའ ི་ འོད་ཟེར་ དག ། ། |
Summoning and Offering a Mandala
| O Deity, protector of all beings, Tirelessly destroying mar with their hordes! Victorious, truly comprehended all phenomena, Please, surrounded by the entourage come to this place! | Ma-lus sems-can kun-gyi mgon-gyur-cig, bDud-sde dpung-bcas mi-bzed 'joms-mdzed-lha, dNgos-rnams ma-lus yang-dag mkhyen-gyur-pa'i, bChom-ldan 'khor-bcas gnas-'dir gshegs-su gsol. | མ་ ལུས་ སེམས་ཅན་ ཀུན་ གྱི་ མགོན་ གྱུར་ ཅིང །། བདུད་ སྡེ་ དཔུང་ བཅས་ མི་ བཟད་ འཇོམས་ མཛད་ ལྷ །། དངོས་ རྣམས་ མ་ ལུས་ ཡང་ དག་ མཁྱེན་ གྱུར་ པའི །། བཅོམ་ ལྡན་ འཁོར་ བཅས་ འདིར་ གཤེགས་ སུ་ གསོལ །། |
| As soon as [Sugata] is born, the deities perform ablution, Also I wash [their bodies] with divine [7] pure water | Ji-ltar bldams-pa tsam-gyi-ni, Lha-rnam kyi-ni khrus-gsol-ltar, Lha-yis chu-ni dag-pa-yis, De-bzhin bdag-gis sku khrus gsol. | ཇི་ ལྟར་ བལྟམས་ པ་ གྱིས་ ནི ། ། ལྟ་ རྣམས་ ཀྱིས་ ནི་ ཁྲུས་ གསོལ་ ལྟར །། ལྷ་ ཡིས་ ཆུ་ ནི་ དག་ པ་ ཡིས །། དེ་ བཞིན་ བདག་ གིས་ སྐུ་ ཁྲུས་ གསོལ །། |
| Introducing the abode of Buddhas , I offer this land Fragrant, strewn with flowers; Mount Sumeru Four continents decorated with moon and sun. May all the wanderers in Pure Land enjoy! ” Idam guru ratna mandala kam nirya tayami | Ca-gzhi spos-kyis byugs-shing me-tog-bkram, Ri-rab gling-bzhi nyi-zlas brgyan-pa-'di, Sangs-rgyas zhing-du dmigs-te phul-ba-yis, 'Gro-kun rnam-dag zhing-la spyod-par-shog. Yi-dam gu-ru ratna mandala kam ni-ryA ta-yA-mi. | ས་གཞི་ སྲོས་ ཀྱིས་ བྱུགས་ ཤིང་ མེ་ཏོག་ བཀྲམ །། རི་ རབ་ གླིང་ བཞི་ ཉི་ ཟླས་ བརྒྱན་པ་ འདི །། སངས་ རྒྱས་ ཞིང་ དུ་ དམིགས་ དེ་ ཕུལ་ བ་ ཡིས །། འགྲོ་ ཀུན་ རྣམ་ དག་ ཞིང་ ལ་ སྤྱོད་ པར་ ཤོག །། ཨི་ ད ྃ ་ གུ་ རུ་ རཏྣ་ མཎྡལ་ ཀ ྃ ་ ནི་ རྱཱ་ ཏ་ ཡཱ་ མི །། |
See also
- Mani
- Migdzem
- Gelug
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Notes
- ↑ Pozdneev A.M. Essays on the life of Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist clergy in Mongolia in connection with the relations of this last people. SPb. , Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1887. - p. 310
- ↑ Pozdneev A.M. Essays on the life of Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist clergy in Mongolia in connection with the relations of this last people. SPb. , Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1887. - p. 310-311
- ↑ Pozdneev A.M. Essays on the life of Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist clergy in Mongolia in connection with the relations of this last people. SPb. , Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1887. - p. 26
- ↑ Pozdneev A.M. Essays on the life of Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist clergy in Mongolia in connection with the relations of this last people. SPb. , Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1887. - p. 313
- ↑ For the first translation into Russian, see: Pozdneev A. M. Essays on the life of Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist clergy in Mongolia in connection with the relations of this last people. SPb. , Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1887. - p. 311-313
- ↑ Text given from the publication: Coming to Asylum and the Birth of Bodhichitta // Texts for Daily Practices. Sost., Per. Tenjin Gonpo, Tenjin Choydzin. M., Icarus, 2004. - ISBN 5-902-619-02-5 - ss. 25-31
- ↑ See: Texts for Daily Practices. Sost., Per. Tenjin Gonpo, Tenjin Choydzin. M., Icarus, 2004. - ISBN 5-902-619-02-5 - p. 205, approx. 24b