The ''Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti'' () (hereafter, ''Nama-samgiti'') is considered amongst the most advanced teachings given by the

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. It represents the pinnacle of all Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings, being a

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of the nondual ( advaya) class, along with the Kalachakra Tantra. The Nama-samgiti was preached by Shakyamuni Buddha for his disciple

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and his wrathful retinue in order to lead them into

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. The essence of the Nama-samgiti is that Manjushri bodhisattva is the embodiment of all knowledge. The Nama-samgiti is a short text, only circa 160 verses and a prose section. It is a fraction of the vast

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such as Avatamsaka Sutra and Prajñāpāramitā Sutras or the endless ocean of tantras such as manjushri-mula-kalpa and the mountainous

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teachings and sea of sundry extra-canonical works. And yet, the Nama-samgiti contains all of the Buddha's

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. It summarizes everything he taught. As Shakyamuni Buddha says of the Nama-samgiti, it is "the chief clarification of words". It is the "nondual reality". Therefore, all sentient beings should definitely study and recite the manjushri-nama-samgiti.

Alternative titles

*"''manjushrijnanasattvasya-paramartha-namasamgiti''" (full Sanskrit title) lit. "The chanting of the names of Manjushri , the embodiment of supreme knowledge" *Āryamañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti ཨཱརྱ་མཉྫུ་ཤྲཱི་ནཱ་མ་སཾ་གི་ཏི * * *

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A Concert of Names of Manjushri (Manjushri-namasamgiti)
''translated from the Tibetan, as clarified by the Sanskrit'' ~ Alexander Berzin, 2004

- GRETIL Transliterated Sanskrit text based on the edition by Janardan Shastri Pandey in ''Bauddhastotrasamgraha''

- GRETIL Transliterated Sanskrit text based on: Davidson, R. M.: ''The Litany of Names of Manjusri''. Buddhist tantras Mañjuśrī Tibetan Buddhist practices {{Buddhist-text-stub

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