Ten Small Mantras

Full digitalized text of a 1900 edition of the Chanmen Risong (禪門日誦), a compilation of liturgical texts for daily and regular Chinese Buddhist ritual services that has been used since the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) to the modern period. The Ten Small Mantras are listed in this text as part of the morning liturgical service.

The Ten Small Mantras (Chinese: 十小咒; pinyin: Shíxiǎozhòu, Sanskrit: Daśa Cula Mantra), or the Ten Mantras (Chinese: 十咒, pinyin: Shízhòu, rōmaji: Jusshu, Vietnamese: Thập Chú), is a subgrouping of esoteric Buddhist mantras or dharanis in Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Ōbaku Zen Buddhism as well as Vietnamese Buddhism.