Eight More Syllable-Gates
The list continues: Jña, Pha, Bha, Cha, Sma, Hva, Ha, and Gha, each opening its own named gate of perfect wisdom.
From Jña to Gha
「……唱壤字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名作世間了悟因；唱頗字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名智慧輪，斷生死；唱婆字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名一切宮殿具足莊嚴；唱車字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名修行戒藏各別圓滿；唱娑摩字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名隨十方現見諸佛；唱訶娑字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名觀察一切無緣眾生，方便攝受，令生海藏；唱訶字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名修行趣入一切功德海；唱伽字時，入般若波羅蜜門，名持一切法雲堅固海藏；……」
"… Reciting the letter Jña, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named becoming the world's own cause of awakened understanding. Reciting the letter Pha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named the wheel of wisdom, severing birth and death. Reciting the letter Bha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named every palace fully adorned. Reciting the letter Cha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named cultivating the treasury of precepts, each fully perfected. Reciting the letters Sma, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named beholding every buddha of the ten directions as they appear. Reciting the letters Hva, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named contemplating every sentient being without conditions, gathering them in through skillful means, causing the ocean-treasury to arise. Reciting the letter Ha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named cultivating entry into the ocean of every merit. Reciting the letter Gha, he enters the prajñā-pāramitā gate named upholding the firm ocean-treasury of every Dharma-cloud … [the list continues]"
Two syllables transliterated identically elsewhere in this collection — 婆 and 伽 — each recur here as distinct letters from their earlier appearances (as Ba and Ga respectively, in Part 226 and Part 227), most likely representing the voiced aspirates Bha and Gha in the underlying Sanskrit. Where the Chinese transliteration cannot distinguish plain and aspirated consonants, this translation follows each syllable's own distinct gate-name as the guide to treating it as a separate letter, consistent with the text's own explicit count of forty-two.
Part 229 In Progress
Thirty-four of forty-two syllable-gates are now complete. The final eight follow in Part 230.
Continue to Part 230 →