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Versions of the Great Compassion Mantra Examined

----Taken from Gobin? "The First Exploration of the Thousand Verses of the Great Compassion Mantra in the Fangshan Stone Scriptures

1. In 605 A.D., Venerable Jing Wan, a disciple of Master Huisi of Nanyue, the second founder of the Tiantai Sect, had his mind set on carving the sutra into stone to be passed on to future generations. He was the earliest creator of the "Fangshan Stone Scriptures", and later his disciples inherited the master's will and continued to engrave them, passing them down from generation to generation through the Tang, Liao, Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties. In these more than a thousand years, except for a few short pauses due to war, the engraving business has been continuous, to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to complete the unprecedented engraving business. The completion of the stone scriptures were buried in Beijing, Fangshan County, Yunju Temple of nine caves on the mountain of the stone scriptures, and now Yunju Temple's underground palace. ***Carved stone monument 14,278 stone, Buddhist scriptures 1,122, more than 3,400 volumes.

In the Fangshan Stone Scriptures, numbered 28, there is a dharani in Volume 13, entitled "Holy Guan Zi Zi Zai Bodhisattva Lotus Samadhi Green Neck Great Compassionate Heart Dharani", with 924 phrases of the whole mantra, and 76 phrases of "Holy Guan Zi Zi Zai Bodhisattva Vast Completeness and Perfection Unobstructed Great Compassionate Heart Dharani" (the same as the 84 phrases of the now popular Great Compassion Mantra), and if all of them are combined, the total number of phrases is 76, and it is a very large sum. If all of them are totaled, the total number of phrases is 1,000, which is similar to the "Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes" of Guanyin, isn't it? It is also the longest of all the Tang mantras, so the reader may think that these are two different systems of the Kuan Yin Great Compassion Mantra, but in fact, from the point of view of the content of the mantra, it does belong to Kuan Yin's "Great Compassion Mantra" system.

The content of the mantra is only a few lines different from the 96 lines of the "Green-necked Guanyin Mantra" (i.e., "The Great Compassionate and Greatly Compassionate Bodhisattva's Great Perfection and Unhindered Freedom of the Green-necked Compassionate Mantra") translated by the Bukong Master, but it is more different from the 84 lines of the Great Compassion Mantra of the Gavatara Dharma. In other words, although the mantra is titled "The Great Completion and Unhindered Compassion of the Holy Guan Zi Zi Zhen Bodhisattva", the content of the mantra is still based on the 96 phrases of the Bhagavatam Mantra, and it is not the version of the 84 phrases of the Great Compassion Mantra of the Gavatam Dharmakaya.

2. 96 lines of the Great Compassion Mantra translated by Bukong

Bukong's translation of the "Great Completion of the Great Compassion Mantra of the Holy Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes of Guan Zi Zi Zi Zi Bodhisattva," according to the "Zhi Yuan Dharma Treasures and General Records" (Volume 4), says: "This mantra (the "Great Compassion Mantra") is the first of its kind in the world. Volume 4: This mantra (the 96-sentence Great Compassion Mantra) and the Gavan Dharmakaya translation are "the same translation" (for details, see The Complete List of Dharma Treasures in the Dazhengzang, Volume 2, pp. 204, center-bottom), which means that the 96-sentence Great Compassion Mantra and the 84-sentence Great Compassion Mantra are "the same" Great Compassion Mantra, with only a slight difference in the content of the "translation".

The painting of the green-necked Guanyin is: "Green-necked Guan Zi Zi Zai Bodhisattva's painting. The three sides of the statue have the appearance of compassion, splendor, and joy on the front. On the right side is the face of a master (representing the realization of bodhicitta). On the left side, he has a pig's face (to show that the world is foolish and attached to birth and death). The head wears a precious crown. In the crown is the Buddha of immeasurable life. He has four arms. The first right arm holds a staff. The second arm holds a lotus flower. The first left arm holds a wheel. The second left arm holds a conch. A tiger's skin is used as a skirt. The left arm is covered with black deerskin. A black snake is used as a sacred thread. She stands on the eight-leaf lotus flower. Her body is adorned with a necklace, armlets, and a halo of light. The divine thread is passed down from the left shoulder corner. (For details, see Daishozo, Book 20, p. 490.)

3. 84 lines of the Great Compassion Mantra translated by Govind Dharma, a Buddhist monk of the Western Kingdom of Tang

The 84 lines of the Thousand-Hand, Thousand-Eyed Guanyin Mantra are the most widely practiced.

The Great Compassion Mantra, which is most familiar to the Chinese, is divided into 75, 82, 84, 88, 94 and 143 lines according to the "broken sentences.