Listen to the Sanghāta

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In the Words of the Sanghāta:

From food what emerges is excrement.

Likewise, what is drunk becomes urine.

Juices transform into blood.

In the same way, from blood comes flesh.

Thus, we do not need even

nicely prepared food and drinks,

nor do we need fine garments

of woven silk or woolen cloth.

Golden bracelets we do not need.

We have no need of strands of pearls.

On our fingers, we need no rings.

All these are transient in nature.

- Ārya Sanghāta Sūtra

Japanese Translation

To download the Arya Sanghata Sutra in Japanese, click here (pdf).

At the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the Education Department of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) has taken up the task of getting the Sanghāta translated into as many languages as possible.

The Sanghāta was translated into Japanese from Tibetan by Nahoko Watanabe, a graduate of the FPMT Masters Program, studying under Geshe Jampa Gyatso at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy from 1998 through December 2004.

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