Manjushri-nama-samgiti

Varanasi: Sarnath International Nyingma Institute, 2015. — 59 p. The Manjushri Namasangiti is a profoundly important and sacred text for both Sutrayana and Mantrayana studies. The entire ground, path, and fruition of the Kalachakra Tantra can be found in the contents of the Manjushri Namasamgiti. Spoken by the Buddha, these teachings originally were preserved in 100,000 chapters, though all that remains today are the sections collected by Manjushrimitra.
For centuries, this text was revered and studied in India by the Six Charioteers, the Mahapanditas at Nalanda and
Vikramashila, and by great enlightened ones such as dGa'-rab rdo-rje, Manjushrimitra, Vimalamitra, and Guru Padmasambhava, whose Devanagari copy was found in the twelfth century at bSam-yas. In Tibet the text was translated by Rin-chen bZang-po, who had had the opportunity to read all 100,000 chapters. But there exists a Tibetan translation preserved at Tun Huang, which indicates it must have been translated earlier as well. In the late tenth or early eleventh century, Smritijnakirti made a commentary and soon after so did Rongzom Mahapandita.