Sitatapatra Buddhist Protection Mantras – Healing, Dispelling Obstacles, Quelling Disasters MUSIC Video
@3GemsBand is honored to perform the ultimate protection mantra of Sitatapatra from Sutra, sung in original Sanskrit. Her mantra is considered the ultimate protection, whether chanted, written or just listened to. 🙏🙏🙏
🙏 Whether she is visualized in her form with 1000 arms and heads, or 2 arms, she is “Aparajita” which means “undefeatable one”. She emanated from the ushnisha of the Conqueror Shakyamuni Gautama Buddha, the ultimate aspect of Dharma Protection. (Learn more about Sitatapatra here>>)
Video (Turn on Captions to Chant-Along for extra merit and protection)
🎵 Available from your favorite music streaming service as “Sitatapatra Protection Mantra” from @3GemsBand. 🎵
Here, 3 Gems Band open properly, as with any Mahayana Practice, with Refuge in the Three jewels and an mandala offering to accumulate merit. We then chant her mantra from Sutra, as well as the activity mantra from the Dharani. The medium mantra itself is
⚠️ CAUTION Even though mantras are effective with faith, always seek help when you are in trouble!
🙏 Oṃ sarva tathāgata uṣṇīṣa sitatapatra
Hūṃ phaṭ
Her heart mantra is
🙏 Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā
We follow this with the acitivity mantra from the longer Dharani:
🙏 Sarva vighnaṃ chindayāmi
Vajreṇa kīlayāmi
And, properly, we end with Bodhichitta dedication. A full translation (in brackets) and lyrics is below.
🎵 LYRICS (OR TURN ON SUB TITLES (Translation in Brackets)
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Refuge (Saraṇa) — Opening
Buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi
Dharmaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi
Saṅghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi
Maṇḍala Verse — Short Offering
Oṃ āḥ hūṃ
Sarva maṇḍalaṃ samarpayāmi
(Oṃ āḥ hūṃ — I offer the entire maṇḍala.)
Mantra of Sitatapatra
Oṃ sarva tathāgata uṣṇīṣa sitatapatra
Hūṃ phaṭ
Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā
Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā
Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā
✨✨✨Activity Mantra
Sarva vighnaṃ chindayāmi
Vajreṇa kīlayāmi
(“I cut off all obstacles; I pin them down with the vajra.”)
Idaṃ me puṇyaṃ
Sarvopadravebhyaḥ
Sarvasattvānāṃ
Nirvāṇaprāptaye bhavatu
(“May this merit of mine be for the protection of all beings from all harms, and for their attainment of nirvāṇa.”)
✨ Description of Sitatapatra
Even her mantra is considered ultimate protection — often written on paper or carved in wood or metal and placed in front of doors or perimeters of property.
Her Sutra practice from the Śūraṅgama Sūtra and also the ārya tathāgatoṣṇīṣa sitātapatra dhāraṇī sūtra is for “healing illness, dispelling interferences and spirit possession, quelling disasters, and bringing auspiciousness.” according to the great teacher Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
⚠️ As a Sutra practice, no empowerments are required.
She can appear in any form as a beautiful white goddess bearing a protective parasol umbrella, or as ferocious as a towering deity with 1,000 heads, 1,000 arms, and countless all-seeing eyes!
Regardless of her emanation — 2 arms or 1000 — she always holds her vast protective Parasol, a symbol of impenetrable protection that emanated from the ushnisha of Shakyamuni Buddha. In Vajrayana she is considered a form of Mother Tara, the ultimate Protective Bodhisattva Goddess.
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