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48<p class="drop">From here you can see mantras for Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other archetypal Buddhist figures; mantras associated with historical figures and teachers; miscellaneous mantras associated with peace, Śunyata, or purity, and some chants mostly from the Pāli.</p>
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58<h2 style="margin-top:10px;">Buddha Mantras</h2>
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60<li><a class="plain" href="shakyamuni.html">Śākyamuni</a>
61<li><a class="plain" href="vajrasattva.html">Vajrasattva</a>
62<li><a class="plain" href="medicine-buddha.html">Bhaiṣajyarāja / The Medicine Buddha</a>
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65<h3>Mantras of the Five Jinas</h3>
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67<li><a class="plain" href="vairocana.html">Vairocana</a>
68<li><a class="plain" href="aksobhya.html">Aká¹£obhya</a>
69<li><a class="plain" href="ratnasambhava.html">Ratnasambhava</a>
70<li><a class="plain" href="amitabha.html">Amitābha / Amitāyus</a>
71<li><a class="plain" href="amoghasiddhi.html">Amoghasiddhi</a>
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75<h3>Mantras of the Female Buddhas</h3>
76<p> (aka Consorts or Prajñās of the Five Jinas) </p>
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78Ākāśadhātvīśvarī</a>
79<li><a class="plain" href="locana.html">Locanā</a>
80<li><a class="plain" href="mamaki.html">Māmakī</a>
81<li><a class="plain" href="pandaravasini.html">Paṇḍāravāsinī</a>
82<li><a class="plain" href="green-tara.html">Tārā</a>
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85<p style="width:80%;">These mantras come from sadhanas composed by <a class="plain" href="http://vessantara.net/home/projects/female-buddhas/">Vessantara</a> for members of the Western Buddhist Order. To hear Vessantara chant these mantras go to <a class="plain" href="http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/talks/details?num=OM678">Free Buddhist Audio.</a>
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90<h2  style="margin-top:10px;">Bodhisattva Mantras</h2>
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92<li><a class="plain" href="akasagarbha.html">Ākāśagarbha</a>
93<li><a class="plain" href="avalokitesvara.html">Avalokiteśvara / Kuan Yin</a>
94<li><a class="plain" href="green-tara.html">Green Tārā</a>
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96<li><a class="plain" href="maitreya.html">Maitreya</a>
97<li><a class="plain" href="manjusri.html">Mañjuśrī / Mañjughoṣa</a> - see also <a class="plain" href="arapacana.html">the arapacana alphabet</a>
98<li><a class="plain" href="prajnaparamita.html">Prajñāpāramita</a>
99<li><a class="plain" href="vajrapani.html">Vajrapāṇi</a>
100<li><a class="plain" href="white-tara.html">White Tārā</a>
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102<h3>Mantras of Mythic Beings</h3>
103<p>Other kinds of important mythic (ie non-historical) beings who play important roles in Buddhism.
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106<li><a class="plain" href="kings.html">Caturmahārāja : The Four Great Kings</a>
107<li><a class="plain" href="kurukulla.html">Kurukullā</a>
108<li><a class="plain" href="vajrayogini.html">Vajrayoginī Ḍākiṇī</a>
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114<h2>Mantras of Historical Figures and Teachers of the Past</h2>
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116<li><a class="plain" href="kukai.html">Kūkai / Kōbōdaishi</a>
117<li><a class="plain" href="milarepa.html">Milarepa</a>
118<li><a class="plain" href="padmasambhava.html">Padmasambhava</a>
119<li><a class="plain" href="ambedkar.html">Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar</a>
120<li><a class="plain" href="thus-have-i-heard.html">Ānanda - thus have I heard...</a></li>
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129<h3  style="margin-top:10px;">Buddhist Mantras</h3>
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131<li><a class="plain" href="heart.html">Heart Sutra Mantra</a> - gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā
132<li><a class="plain" href="shanti.html">Śanti - Peace Mantra</a> - oṃ śanti śanti śanti
133<li><a class="plain" href="suddha.html">Śuddha Mantra</a> (aka "<i>the</i> Śunyata Mantra") - oṃ svabhāva śuddhāḥ sarvadharmāḥ svabhāva śuddho 'haṃ
134<li><a class="plain" href="sunyata.html">Śūnyatā Mantra</a> - oṃ śūnyata jñāna vajra svabhāvātmako 'haṃ
135<li><a class="plain" href="supratistha.html">Supratiṣṭha Mantra</a> - oṃ supratiṣṭha-vajraye svāhā
136<li>oṃ āḥ hūṃ - see <a class="plain" href="aah.html">seed syllable āḥ</a>
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139<h3>Buddhist SÅ«tras</h3>
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141<li><a class="plain" href="buddha-last-words.html">The Buddha's Last Words</a> - Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, Dīgha Nikāya 16.6.8.
142<li><a class="plain" href="infinite-life-dharani.html">Dhāraṇī of Holy Infinite-Life Resolute Radiance King Tathāgata</a></li>
143<li><a class="plain" href="door-to-the-deathless.html">The Doors to the Deathless are Open</a> - a verse from the Lalitavistara.</li>
144<li><a class="plain" href="metta-sutta.html">Karanīya Metta Sutta</a> - Pāli in Siddhaṃ and roman, and translation.
145<li><a class="plain" href="karandamudra.html">Karaṇḍamudrā dhāraṇī and bīja <i>stryi</i></a> 
146<li><a class="plain" href="heartsutra.html">Heart Sutra Text</a> - oṃ namo bhagavatyai ārya prajñāpāramitāyai!
147<li><a class="plain" href="nilakantha-dharani.html">Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī</a>
148<li><a class="plain" href="ratnagunasamcayagatha.html">Ratnaguṇasaṁcayagāthā</a> - verse one.</li>
149<li><li><a class="plain" href="thus-have-i-heard.html">Thus have I heard...</a> - Ānanda</li>
150</ul>
151<h3>Buddhist Chants &amp; Phrases</h3>
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153<li><a class="plain" href="dharma-hetuprabhava.html">Causation</a> - ye dharma hetuprabhava hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgataḥ hyavadat...
154<li><a class="plain" href="dharma-doors.html">Dharma doors</a> - akāro mukhaḥ sarvadharmāṇāṃ ādyanutpannavāt

155<li><a class="plain" href="allhappy.html">May all beings be happy</a> - sabbe sattā sukhi hontu
156<li><a class="plain" href="nobletruths.html">Noble Truths</a> - ārya satyā: duḥkha samudaya nirodha mārga
157<li><a class="plain" href="this-being-that-becomes.html">This being, that becomes...</a> - imasmiṃ sati idaṃ hoti...
158<li><a class="plain" href="three-refuges.html">Three Refuges</a> - buddhaṃ śaraṇaṃ gacchāmi...
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167<p>"Because the letters of worldly languages are already capable of expressing what reality is, Tathāgatas empower some of them and present them as mantras" - Kūkai</p>
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