Suttas / sūtras · 2026

Śūraṅgama Mantra · 楞嚴咒

Traditional text; digital transcription by Wikipedia contributors

All five assemblies in the cited Sanskrit/Chinese transcription. Recensions and pronunciation vary. This is a reading reference, not a critical Sanskrit edition or a semantic English/Malay translation of every mantra syllable.

Traditional Chinese morning-service opening, followed by all five mantra assemblies. Read the opening line by line in Chinese/pinyin, English and Malaysian Malay. Sanskrit and modern Chinese meaning layers remain available for the mantra assemblies.
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Traditional mantra text; digital transcription reproduced from Wikipedia contributors, “Śūraṅgama Mantra”, retrieved 28 September 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: table reflow and citation-marker removal. Source/history: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Śūraṅgama_Mantra&action=history . Added phrase alignment and original study meanings, Ti-Ratana editorial project, AI-assisted, 12 October 2026: CC BY-SA 4.0; existing attribution retained. Opening Chinese text: CBETA J19nB044; existing CBETA source notice and noncommercial conditions retained. Opening English/Malay: original AI-assisted Ti-Ratana study translation, 12 October 2026.

  • Source text and edition: Traditional text; digital transcription by Wikipedia contributors: Traditional mantra text; digital transcription reproduced from Wikipedia contributors, “Śūraṅgama Mantra”, retrieved 28 September 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: table reflow and citation-marker removal. Source/history: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Śūraṅgama_Mantra&action=history .

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Current edition: 2026-10-12.3. Source revision: 482494c8c28eb2d2692bd67576a02631c4f96d94521aabed4c71afd7fd2ef94e.

  • Added reading layers and explicit language coverage. Original source preserved; new translations labelled as study drafts. Restored omitted TEI lists where present.
  • Updated reader fonts, reviewed source-line mappings and exact language coverage. Added original English/Malay Medicine Buddha and Usnisa Vijaya study translations, with phonetic blocks identified. Repaired leaked CBETA glyph metadata from retained XML.
  • Integrated phrase-by-phrase Sanskrit/Chinese correspondences and English, Malay and modern Chinese study meanings for the updated chants; retained source witnesses and marked uncertain readings. Added full English/Malay Great Compassion Sutra study translation where applicable.

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