Manjushri’s Sword: Your Brain’s Ultimate Decluttering Tool
chenHenryManjusri (Sanskrit: Mañjuśrī, meaning "wonderful auspiciousness") is the core Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism that symbolizes supreme wisdom. He is revered as the "teacher of all Buddhas" and the "mother of seven Buddhas". His wisdom is profound and broad, like the sea of prajnaparamita, which can eliminate all ignorance and darkness. The following is a detailed analysis of its symbolic meaning and function:
1. Core symbol (embodiment of Buddhist wisdom)
🗡️ Wisdom Sword
The sword held in the right hand: Vajra Prajna Sword, the sword tip is wrapped with wisdom flames, which can eliminate the troubles, ignorance, and attachment of sentient beings, and directly cut off the root of ignorance.
Symbol: Wisdom is like a sharp blade, which cuts off all falsehoods (in the "Vimalakirti Sutra", Manjusri Bodhisattva broke the joke of words with "silence and silence").
📖 Prajna Sutra
The left hand holds a blue lotus, holding a Sanskrit box/scripture (mostly the "Great Prajna Sutra" or "Heart Sutra"), symbolizing that the wisdom of the Buddha is as pure and untainted as a lotus.
Symbol: Wisdom is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the essence of insight into reality.
🦁 Blue Lion Mountain
The lion is the king of beasts, and its roar shakes the world. Its wisdom is like a lion's roar, awakening lost beings and shocking demons.
Blue symbolizes wisdom as boundless as the void.
👑 Five-petal crown
The five knots on the top of the head (or five-petal crown) symbolize the wisdom of the five Buddhas (great mirror wisdom, equality wisdom, wonderful observation wisdom, perfect wisdom, Dharmakaya wisdom), which summarizes the perfect wisdom of all Buddhas.
🌿 Boy's face
The face presents the image of a sixteen-year-old boy, symbolizing pure wisdom and eternal freshness (beyond time aging).
Manjushri Bodhisattva thangka pendant display:
2. Fundamental function: Wisdom Dharma incarnation
Showing Prajna wisdom
Guide sentient beings to realize the wisdom of emptiness, break the "self-attachment" and "Dharma-attachment", and directly realize the true meaning of all dharmas.
Helps with studies, eloquence, and memory
Known as the "Study-Assisting Bodhisattva", students and scholars often pray for his blessings:
✓ Improve memory and comprehension
✓ Stimulate eloquence and wisdom
Protect practitioners
Break through demonic obstacles: Use the sword of wisdom to cut off the inner demons (greed, anger, and ignorance) and outer demons (interference) in practice.
Eliminate karma: Open the light of wisdom for the penitent and transform karma.
Manjushri Bodhisattva thangka pendant display:
