Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་ Dorje Sempa
100 syllable Vajrasattva mantra is for purification of negative karma and repentance practice.
Tibetan script and Sanskrit mantra (with short translated meaning):
ཨོཾ་
OM
Oṃ
(Syllable of the most supreme exclamation of praise).
བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ས་མ་ཡ་
BENZAR SATO SA MA YA
Vajrasattva Samaya
(Vajrasattva’s Samaya),
མ་ནུ་པ་ལ་ཡ།། བཛྲ་སཏྭ་
MA NU PA LA YA BENZAR SATO
Manupālaya Vajrasattva
(O Vajrasattva, protect the samaya).
ཏྭེ་ནོ་པ་ཏིཥྛ། དྲྀ་ཌྷོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ།
TE NO PA TISHTHA DRI DHO ME BHA WA
Tvenopatiṣṭha Dṛḍho Me Bhava
(May you remain firm in me).
སུ་ཏོ་ ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ།
SU TO KA YO ME BHA WA
Sutoṣyo Me Bhava
(Grant me complete satisfaction).
སུ་པོ་ ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ།
SU PO KA YO ME BHA WA
Supoṣyo Me Bhava
(Grow within me {increase the positive within me}).
ཨ་ནུ་ར་ཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ།
ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA
Anurakto me bhava
(Be loving towards me).
ས་རྦ་སི་དྡྷི་མེ་པྲ་ཡ་ཙྪ།
SARVA SIDDHI ME PRA YATSA
Sarvasiddhiṃ Me Prayaccha
(Grant me all the accomplishments,)
ས་རྦ་ཀ་རྨ་སུ་ཙ་མེ
SARVA KARMA SU TSA ME
Sarvakarmasu Ca Me
(As well as all the activities).
ཙི་ཏྟཾ༌ཤེ་ཡཿ་ཀུ་རུ་
TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU
Cittaṃ Śreyaḥ Kuru
(Make my mind virtuous).
ཧཱུྂ།
HUNG
Hūṃ
(Syllable of the heart essence, the seed syllable of Vajrasattva).
ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་
HA HA HA HA
Ha Ha Ha Ha
(Syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, and the four kāyas).
ཧོཿ
HO
Hoḥ
(Syllable of joyous laughter in them).
བྷ་ག་བ་ན་ ས་རྦ་ ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ་
BHA GA WAN SARVA TA THA GA TA
Bhagavan Sarvatathāgata
(Bhagawan, who embodies all the Vajra Tathāgatas),
བཛྲ་མཱ་མེ་མུ་ཉྩ།
BENZRA MA ME MUNTSA
Vajra Mā Me Muñca
(Do not abandon me).
བཛྲཱི་བྷ་ཝ་
BENZRI BHA WA
Vajrī Bhava
(Grant me realization of the vajra nature).
མ་ཧཱ་ས་མ་ཡ་སཏྭ
MA HA SA MA YA SATO
Mahāsamayasattva
(O great Samayasattva),
ཨཱཿ །།
AH
Āḥ
(Make me one with you. Syllable of uniting in non-duality).
Short Mantra:
Om Benza Sato Hum
Oṃ Vajrasattva Hūṃ
- Source of the translated meaning can be found here.
- Vietnamese phonetics transliteration.
100 syllable Sanskrit mantra (extensive translated meaning):
Oṃ Vajrasattva
(The most excellent exclamation of praise, the qualities of Buddha’s holy body, speech, and mind; all that is precious and auspicious. Vajrasattva, you whose wisdom is inseparable bliss-emptiness),
Samaya Manupālaya
(And whose pledge must not be transgressed, lead me along the path you took to enlightenment),
Vajrasattva Tvenopatiṣṭha
(Make me abide close to your holy vajra mind),
Dṛḍho Me Bhava
(Please grant me a firm and stable realization of the ultimate nature of phenomena),
Sutoṣyo Me Bhava
(Please grant me the blessing of being extremely pleased and satisfied with me),
Supoṣyo Me Bhava
(Bless me with the nature of well-developed great bliss),
Anurakto Me Bhava
(Bless me with the nature of love that leads me to your state),
Sarva Siddhiṃ Me Prayaccha
(Please grant me all-powerful attainments),
Sarvakarmasu Ca Me Citta śriyaḥ Kuru
(Please grant me all virtuous actions and your glorious qualities),
Hūṃ
(HUM, Seed syllable of the vajra holy mind, the heart essence and seed syllable of Vajrasattva),
Hā Hā Hā Hā Hoḥ
(Seed syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, the four kayas, and the five wisdoms),
Bhagavan Sarva Tathāgata Vajra
(You, who are the vajra of all who have destroyed every obscuration, of all who have attained all realizations, of all who have passed beyond suffering, and of all who have realized emptiness and know things just as they are),
Mā Me Muñca
(Do not abandon me),
Vajra Bhava
(Grant me the nature of indestructible union, the realization of your vajra nature),
Mahāsamaya Sattva
(You, the great pledge being with the holy vajra mind),
Āḥ
(Make me one with you. Syllable of uniting in non-duality).
Hūm
(Syllable of the wisdom of great bliss).
phat
(Syllable that clarifies the wisdom of inseparable bliss-emptiness and destroys the dualistic mind that obstructs realization).
- Audio recording of The 17’th Karmapa teaching how to recite the 100 syllable Sanskrit Vajrasattva mantra. (Watch the video teaching here).
- ཀརྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ། Karma Dorje doing an audio recording recitation of the Sanskrit version of the mantra.
- ཀརྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ། Karma Dorje doing an audio recording recitation of the Tibetan version of the mantra.
100 syllable Tibetan script mantra:
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ས་མ་ཡ། མ་ནུ་པཱ་ལ་ཡ། བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཏྭེ་ནོ་པ་ཏིཥྛ། དྲྀ་ཌྷོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། སུ་ཏོ་ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། སུ་པོ་ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། ཨ་ནུ་ར་ཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། ས་རྦ་སི་དྡྷི་མྨེ་པྲ་ཡ་ཙྪ། ས་རྦ་ཀ་རྨ་སུ་ཙ་མེ ཙི་ཏྟཾ༌ཤྲེ་ཡཿ་ཀུ་རུ་ཧཱུྂ། ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧོཿ བྷ་ག་ཝཱན། ས་རྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ། བཛྲ་མཱ་མེ་མུ་ཉྩ། བཛྲཱི་བྷ་ཝ་མ་ཧཱ་ས་མ་ཡ་སཏྭ་ཨཱཿ །།
- ཀརྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ། Karma Dorje compiled this page as a supplemental guide and motivational support for others, please forgive him for any errors.
