Prayer to Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara

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Homage to the lotus king, the great compassionate Avalokitesvara, the greatly unrestricted and auspicious one. who can grant wishes for sentient beings, and has great majestic sacrosanct powers, to tame and subdue the extreme atrocities. You are the bright lamp for the dark destinies, and make all who see you have no fear.

You manifest hundreds or thousands of arms, so many as your eyes; and have fully eleven faces; your wisdom is as vast as the four great oceans.

You treasure the subtle and wonderful Dharmas, for saving all sentient beings, including tortoises, fishes, aquatic animals, and so on.

Your uppermost wisdom is like a mountain.

You give treasures to all living beings, You are the uppermost auspicious one, and have full of blessings, wisdom and sublime.

When you enter into Avichi hell, It becomes a refreshingly cool place.

All heavenly beings should make offerings to you, and bow at your feet, the one who bestows with no fear.

You expound the six Paramitas, and constantly keep the torch of Dharma burning.

Your Dharma eyes are brighter than the sun, your appearance is beautiful, sublime, and wonderful; your body is like a gold mountain, and your wonderful stomach is like a deep Dharma ocean.

The true-thus(*) is accordant with your mind, and the wonderful virtues appear in your mouth.

Having accumulated innumerable hundreds of thousands of Samadhis, and immeasurable joy, you are beautiful and sublime, and are the uppermost immortal one.

Within the horrific evil destinies, you liberate all living beings from shackles, and give alms to them with no fear.

The relatives surrounding you, can always have their wishes fulfilled, like having Mani pearls.

You demolish the city of hungry ghost, and open the way to quietness; you cure illness of the worlds, like a cover protecting streamers.

Besides your armpits, there are two dragons: Nanda and Upananda; holding in your hands, there is an infallible-lasso (Amogha-pasa).

Manifesting immeasurable majesties and virtues, you can destroy the horrors of the three realms; under the power of Diamond hand, Yaksas, Raksas, Bhutas, Vitanazini, Kumbhandas, and Apasmara, are all frightened. With the Utpala-flower-like eyes, you are the lord of enlightenment, who bestows with no fear, and liberate all living beings from myriads of afflictions. Entering into the Samadhis as many as atoms in universe, you reveal myriads of states, for all living beings in the evil destinies, to liberate them all, and make them achieve the Bodhi Way.

—from 'Buddha speaks Mahayana Sublime Treasure King Sutra'

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