Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition Practice Series
Miscellaneous Mantras
Krodha Ucchuṣma Mantra for Washing
When taking a shower, brushing your teeth, or washing any part of
your body, visualize Ucchuṣma above your crown. Imagine that you are
washing yourself using the water that she pours from her vase. When
brushing your teeth, brush your tongue and rinse your mouth out three
times. At the end, visualize that she dissolves into you and that you
receive her blessings. If you make offerings after this, you will not have
the faults of uncleanliness, pollution, and so forth.1
ༀ་ཨ་ར་ཁཾ་ཙི་ར་ཁཾ་བི་མ་ན་སེ་ཨུ་ཙུཥྨ་མཧཱ་ཀྲོ་དྷ་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཊ།
OṂ ARAKHAṂ CIRAKHAṂ VIMANASE UCUṢMA
MAHĀKRODHA HŪṂ PHAT
Mantras to Make Charity of the Contaminants of the Body
With each of these mantras, the recipients—i.e., hungry ghosts—will receive
these different substances as food. Snap your fingers while reciting the
mantras. All the merit that is accumulated through this practice of giving
should be dedicated to the enlightenment of all sentient beings. These man-
tras were extracted by Guru Vajrāsana from the sūtras and tantras.
Spit
ༀ་ཨཱཿཤླེཥྨཱ་ཧ་རེ་བྷྱཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OṂ ĀḤ ŚLEṢMĀ HARE BHYAḤ SVĀHĀ
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The deity in question (Skt. Krodha Ucchuṣma), is a black, two-armed wrathful
female deity who holds a vase in both hands. In Tibetan she is known as
Thromo Metseg (khro mo rme brtsegs).
Phlegm
ༀ་ཨཱཿཁྲེ་ར་ཨཱ་ཧ་རེ་བྷྱཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OṂ ĀḤ KHRERA ĀHARE BHYAḤ SVĀHĀ
Nasal Mucus
སྣབས་ལ། ༀ་ཨཱཿསིཾ་གྷ་ན་ཨཱ་ཧ་རེ་བྷྱཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OṂ ĀḤ SIṂGHANA ĀHARE BHYAḤ SVĀHĀ
Flatulence
ༀ་ཨཱཿམ་ལ་ཨཱ་ཧ་རེ་བྷྱཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OṂ ĀḤ MALA ĀHARE BHYAḤ SVĀHĀ
Excrement
ༀ་ཨཱཿབི་ཊ་ཨཱ་ཧ་རེ་བྷྱཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OṂ ĀḤ VIṬA ĀHARE BHYAḤ SVĀHĀ
Urine
ༀ་ཨཱཿམཱུ་ཏྲ་ཨཱ་ཧ་རེ་བྷྱཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ།
OṂ ĀḤ MŪTRA ĀHARE BHYAḤ SVĀHĀ
Mantra to Prevent Being Stained by Faults When Stepping on
Holy Objects and the Shadows of Gurus and Holy Objects
Recite this mantra whenever there is a need to step on a holy object,
such as when cleaning or painting a large statue or stūpa, and whenever
you cannot avoid stepping on the shadow of your guru or the shadows
of holy objects such as statues, stūpas, and prayer flags. Visualize lifting
up the holy object, standing under it, and recite the mantra.
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ༀ་བཛྲ་བེ་གཱ་ཀྲ་མ་ཧཱུཾ།
OṂ VAJRA VEGĀKRAMA HŪṂ
Mantra to Avert the Pollution from Consuming Offerings
When removing an offering that will be consumed from an altar, recite
this mantra seven times and blow on the offering. In this way, you will
not receive the pollution of obstructions and will be reborn in the God
Realm of the Thirty-Three.
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨི་དཾ་བི་ནི་རཏྣ་པདྨ་ཎི་པྲཎ་ནི་སྭཱཧཱ།།
TADYATHĀ IDAṂ VINI RATNA PADMAṆI PRAṆANI SVĀHĀ (7x)
Mantra to Bless Meat
If you recite this mantra seven times, it is said that the faults of eating meat
will be negated and the sentient being whose meat is being eaten will gain
a fortunate rebirth.
ༀ་ཨ་བི་ར་ཁེ་ཙ་ར་ཧཱུཾ།
OṂ AVIRA KHECARA HŪṂ (7x)
According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, any of the following mantras can
also be recited. Recite the mantras with strong compassion, blow on the
meat before you eat it, and make a strong dedication for that animal to
immediately be liberated from the lower realms and to receive a good
rebirth—a perfect human body or rebirth in a pure land.
Chenrezig Mantra
ༀ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུཾ།
OṂ MAṆI PADME HŪṂ
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Medicine Buddha Mantra
ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ༀ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ། མཧཱ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ༿་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ༾། རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུདྒ་
ཏེ་སྭཱཧཱ།
TADYATHĀ / OṂ BHAIṢAJYE BHAIṢAJYE / MAHĀ BHAIṢAJYE
BHAIṢAJYE / RĀJA SAMUDGATE SVĀHĀ
Common pronunciation:
TADYATHA / OM BEKANZAY BEKANZAY / MAHA BEKANZAY
BEKANZAY / RADZA SAMUDGATAY SOHA
Buddha Mitrugpa Mantra
ན་མོ་རཏྣ་ཏྲ་ཡཱ་ཡ། ༀ་ཀཾ་ཀ་ནི་ཀཾ་ཀ་ནི། རོ་ཙ་ནི་རོ་ཙ་ནི། ཏྲོ་ཊ་ནི་
ཏྲོ་ཊ་ནི། ཏྲཱ་ས་ནི་ཏྲཱ་ས་ནི། པྲ་ཏི་ཧ་ན་པྲ་ཏི་ཧ་ན། སརྦ་ཀརྨ་པ་རཾ་
པ་རཱ་ཎི་མེ་སརྦ་སཏྭ་ནཉྩ་སྭཱཧཱ།
NAMO RATNA TRAYĀYA / OṂ KAṂKANI KAṂKANI /
ROCANI ROCANI / TROṬANI TROṬANI / TRĀSANI TRĀSANI /
PRATIHANA PRATIHANA / SARVA KARMA PARAṂ PARĀṆIME
SARVASATVA NAÑCA SVĀHĀ
Milarepa Mantra
ༀ་ཨཱཿགུ་རུ་ཧ་ས་བཛྲ་སརྦ་སིདྡྷི་ཕ་ལ་ཧཱུཾ།
OṂ ĀḤ GURU HASA VAJRA SARVA SIDDHI PHALA HŪṂ
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Colophon:
The Krodha Ucchuṣma Mantra for Washing is sourced from pan chen bstan
pa'i nyi ma phyogs las rnam rgyal, yi dam rgya mtsh'i sgrub thams rin chen
'byung gnas kyi lhan thans rin 'byung don gsal las glegs bam dang po (Tashi
Lhunpo Edition), Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1999, p.
1038. The instructions are based on those of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, given in
Essential Buddhist Prayers: An FPMT Prayer Book, Volume I—Basic Prayers and
Practices, FPMT Inc.: Portland, 2011, p. 23. The Mantras to Make Charity of the
Contaminations of the Body are from lus kyi zag pa sbyin par gtang ba'i gzungs
in bka' 'gyur dpe bsdur ma, vol. 96, BDRC W1PD96682, Beijing: krung go'i bod
rig pa'i dpe skrun khang, 2008, p. 432. The explanations are based on the same
text. The mantra related to urine has been slightly edited based on bla ma'i
rnal 'byor dang yi dam rnams kyi bdag bskyed rin po che'i gan mdzod, Mund-
gog: Dhotul Tenzin Sherap Sangpo, 2019, p. 6. The Mantra to Prevent Being
Stained by Faults When Stepping on Holy Objects and the Shadows of Gurus
and Holy Objects is from Tsongkhapa, Tantric Ethics: An Explanation of the Pre-
cepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice, Boston, Wisdom Publications, 2005, p.
43, and has been checked against several Tibetan sources. The explanation
given with the mantra is based on the same source. The Mantra to Stop the
Pollution of Consuming Offerings Made to the Three Jewels is from Lama Zopa
Rinpoche’s personal notes. The Mantra to Bless Meat is from sha sngags dang
dpe steng mi 'gro ka med byung na sngags in zhal 'don gces btus, Bylakuppe:
Sera Mey Library, 2010, p. 12.
Mantras researched and transliterated by Joona Repo and Ven. Tenzin Tsomo,
August 2020.
