A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Via AI Overview \\ Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
AI Overview
The mantra “Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha” is the closing phrase of the famous Mahayana Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra (Prajñaparamita Hridaya). It translates loosely to: "Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, awakening, hail!" [1, 2, 3, 4]
Word-by-Word Translation
- Gate (गते): Gone
- Gate (गते): Gone (repeated for emphasis)
- Paragate (परगते): Gone to the further shore
- Parasamgate (परसंगते): Completely gone to the further shore (using the intensive prefix sam)
- Bodhi (बोधि): Awakening, enlightenment, or the awakened mind
- Svaha (स्वाहा): A traditional Vedic sacrificial exclamation, often compared to "amen" or "hail" to seal the mantra [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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