Anybody got the Tibetan text and English transliteration for Tsongkhapas praise to Saraswati?
The English translation is:
Captivating presence, stealing my mind,
Like a lightning-adorned cloud beautifying the sky,
There amid a celestial gathering of youthful musicians.
Compassionate goddess, come here now!
Those alluring honeybee eyes in that lotus face,
That long, dark blue hair, glowing with white light,
There before me in a pose of seductive dance.
Grant me, Saraswati, your power of speech!
Those beautiful, playful antelope eyes,
I gaze insatiably upon you, seducer of my mind,
Goddess of speech with a mother’s compassion,
Make our speech as one.
More beautiful than the splendour of a full autumn moon,
A voice eclipsing the sweetest melody of Brahma,
A mind as hard to fathom as the deepest ocean,
I bow before the goddess Saraswati.
Thanks!
"My religion is not deceiving myself." Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss." The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
"My religion is not deceiving myself." Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss." The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
དྷི་རི་དྷི་རི་བུདྡྷི་ཝརྡྷ་ནི་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
dhiri dhiri buddhi vardhani soha
ཞེས་བཟླས་བློ་གྲོས་འཕེལ་བར་བྱེད།
Recite this and your intelligence will increase.
ཅེས་པའང་སྐུ་ཞབས་སི་ཏུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་དབོན་བསམ་གཏན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ནས་ལྷ་རྫས་བཅས་གསུང་གིས་བསྐུལ་བ་བཞིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་སམ་མིང་གཞན་འཇམ་དཔལ་དགའ་བའི་གོ་ཆར་འབོད་པས་དཔལ་སྤུངས་ཡིད་དགའ་ཆོས་འཛིན་དབྱངས་ཅན་དགྱེས་པའི་དགའ་ཚལ་དུ་བྲིས་པ་སིདྡྷི་རསྟུ།། །།
In response to the requests of Samten Tulku Rinpoche, the nephew of the noble Palpung Situ Rinpoche, given together with the gift of a silken scarf, I, Chökyi Lodrö, also known as Jampal Gawé Gochar, wrote this in the Joyful Grove Delighting the Goddess Sarasvati in Palpung Monastery. Siddhirastu!
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Translated by Adam
Manjushri & Sarasvati Series
Reference:
ལྷ་མོ་དབྱངས་ཅན་མ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་རབ་དགའི་དབྱངས་སྙན།, Collected Works of Jamyang Khyentse Chöyki Lödro, Vol 5, p. 339-340.
"My religion is not deceiving myself." Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss." The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Here it is - the one you asked about is called "Prayer to Sarasvati." There is also "In Praise of Sarasvati" which I'll post, too. Sorry it's only PDF - was hoping to find an actual text version, but:
I should have mentioned that's from the book "The splendor of an autumn moon: the devotional verse of Tsongkhapa
By Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa, translated by Gavin Kilty."
himalayanspirit wrote:So the Tibetan Buddhists also worship Saraswati? I thought such gods and goddesses were mythical and a result of Brahmins' colorful imaginations.
If I tell the Hindus around me about it, they will again say that the Buddhists are stealing from the Hindus, as they always do.
Buddha's eminate various forms there are even Buddhist versions of Ganesh. But they are different from the Hindu worldly gods.
Abandoning Dharma is, in the final analysis, disparaging the Hinayana because of the Mahayana; favoring the Hinayana on account of the Mahayana; playing off sutra against tantra; playing off the four classes of the tantras against each other; favoring one of the Tibetan schools—the Sakya, Gelug, Kagyu, or Nyingma—and disparaging the rest; and so on. In other words, we abandon Dharma any time we favor our own tenets and disparage the rest.
Liberation in the Palm of your hand~Kyabje Pabongkha Rinpoche.
himalayanspirit wrote:So the Tibetan Buddhists also worship Saraswati? I thought such gods and goddesses were mythical and a result of Brahmins' colorful imaginations.
If I tell the Hindus around me about it, they will again say that the Buddhists are stealing from the Hindus, as they always do.
It is only in human nature that you belong to this religion and I to that, but it is not the deities' nature to belong to one religion and not another. Some of you will be very doubtful about whether one deity can have two very different characteristics. Let me explain this to you as though we were talking about some human personality. In the first case, there is a man who is an evil person, a robber. At the same time, he is engaged by the secret police to detect and report the activities of other robbers. When he is a robber, he robs those who are not related to the police department. When he is working for the police he is not a robber but helps to capture them.
Again, there is a man who is a very bad person in his village or neighborhood and at the same time is a servant in an office in town and is controlled by the Chairman of some governmental or citizens' organization. While working, he is obedient to the Chairman or Master; so if you were to request a favour from the Chairman, through that power the servant must faithfully help you. If a favour is asked of him while he is in his own environment, he will grant it only according to the offerings given to him but not in accordance with your good wills in Tantric Buddhism. He also creates obstacles when the offerings do not please him. This is a very dangerous business! http://www.yogichen.org/cw/cw28/bk028.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
himalayanspirit wrote:So the Tibetan Buddhists also worship Saraswati? I thought such gods and goddesses were mythical and a result of Brahmins' colorful imaginations.
If I tell the Hindus around me about it, they will again say that the Buddhists are stealing from the Hindus, as they always do.
Buddha's eminate various forms there are even Buddhist versions of Ganesh. But they are different from the Hindu worldly gods.
The Female Buddha of Voice called Saraswati by Hindus is worshipped by them as a virgin for the attainment of knowledge or intelligence. Even though Hindus might say that Saraswati is the consort of Brahma, they never worship them together. When worshipped as a virgin, only the wisdom of the higher self can be attained. In Tantric Buddhism she is married to Manjusri and in this relationship denotes the highest wisdom, that which overcomes the bondage of the higher self. It is a very secret truth that the highest wisdom is in the third initiation which is called the wisdom initiation. By the "love actions" in this initiation the highest pleasure is produced and this pleasure produces the voidness of truth--the highest wisdom. The secret purport of the yoga lies in the anthropomorphic relationship between the sexes. Even in everyday life, the layman's intelligence develops during married life. According to Chinese history, the well-known work Ton-lai-po-yee was written during the author's honeymoon. http://www.yogichen.org/cw/cw28/bk028.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
himalayanspirit wrote:So the Tibetan Buddhists also worship Saraswati? I thought such gods and goddesses were mythical and a result of Brahmins' colorful imaginations.
If I tell the Hindus around me about it, they will again say that the Buddhists are stealing from the Hindus, as they always do.
The six gurus were named Purana-Kasyapa, Maskari-Gosaliputra, Sanjaya-Vairatiputra, Ajita-Kesakambala, KakudaKatyayana and Nirgrantha-Jnatrputra. They were the six heretical teachers living at the same time as Gautama Buddha. Purana-Kasyapa held to annihilationism, Maskari-Gosaliputra to naturalism, Sanjaya-Vairatipurtra to natural annihilationism as a mass of threads pulling off from a hill will finish by nature. Ajita-Kesakambala held to Asceticism. Kakuda Katyayana held to a philosophy of uncertainty, everything may be form or non-form, and Nigrantha-Jnatrputra held to fatalism. They all rejected Buddhism.
As regards the six schools of Indian philosophy, they are named Nyaya, Sankhya, Vaisesika, Yoga, Mimamsa, and Vedanta. They all occurred later than Buddhism. Vedanta means the end of the Veda and is also called Uttara Mimamsa which means later investigation. It is attributed to Jaimini of the fourth, fifth century A.D. The Sankhya school is founded by Kapila whose age is not clear to historians but had expression in a poem attributed to Isvara Krishna who lived in the fourth century A.D.
The yoga school was formulated by Patanjali. His age is mentioned in three different records; one is 200 B.C., while the other is 300 A.D. and the other is 400 A.D. No matter which one is right, they are all later than the age of Buddha Gautama. These six philosophies are later than the age of early Buddhism. http://www.yogichen.org/cw/cw28/bk031.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
