The Kangyur
Action tantras
བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད།
Kriyātantra
Tantras of the Action class, mainly emphasizing external worship and ritual, and classified into six “families” of principal deities (Toh 502-808).
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The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī with Its Ritual Manual (2)
Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇīkalpasahitā
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The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī with Its Ritual Manual is a short work in which the Buddha Amitāyus teaches the uṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇī along with its benefits and a number of short rites for its recitation.
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The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī with Its Ritual Manual (3)
Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇīkalpasahitā
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གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་གཟུངས་རྟོག་པ་དང་བཅས་པ།
The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī with Its Ritual Manual is a short work in which the Buddha Amitāyus teaches the uṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇī along with its benefits and a short rite for its recitation.
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The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī
Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇī
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གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་གཟུངས།
The Noble Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī That Purifies All Lower Rebirths opens with an account of the god Supratiṣṭhita, who seeks the god Śakra’s advice after learning of his own impending death and rebirth in the lower realms. Realizing that the Tathāgata is the only true refuge from lower rebirth, Śakra goes to the Buddha, who explains to him the benefits of the Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī and a number of rituals related to it that can liberate Supratiṣṭhita and all beings from rebirth in the lower realms.
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A Ritual Manual for the Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī
Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇīkalpa
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གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་གཟུངས་རྟོག།
A Ritual Manual for the Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī is a short work in which the Buddha Amitāyus teaches the uṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇī along with its benefits and a number of short rites for its recitation.
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The Dhāraṇī of Vimaloṣṇīṣa
Uṣṇīṣaprabhāsasarvatathāgatahṛdayasamayavilokitadhāraṇī
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The Dhāraṇī of Uṣṇīṣājvālā
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The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya
Caityadhāraṇī
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མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya is a short manual on the ritual preparation for and casting of small caityas from clay. The ritual has three main parts: a description of the general transformative power of the dhāraṇī, the preparation rituals for the ground and clay, and rituals for the consecration of the cast images.
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The Dhāraṇī that Makes Erecting One Reliquary Like Erecting Ten Million
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The Dhāraṇī of the Apex of Compassion
Karuṇāgradhāraṇī
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སྙིང་རྗེའི་མཆོག་གི་གཟུངས།
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The Secret Tantra of the Wrathful Conqueror
Krodhavijayakalpaguhyatantra
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The Dhāraṇī of Vajrabhairava
Vajrabhairavadhāraṇī
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རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī of Vajrabhairava is a short text presenting both a series of “vajra statements” (Tib. rdo rje tshig), which it calls the “essence of all vidyā and mantra,” and a dhāraṇī, followed by instructions for the dhāraṇī's associated rites. These include rites for countering and repelling enemies, subjugating nāgas and preventing hail, curing illness, and even protecting liquor from spoilage.
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The Dhāraṇī of Mahādaṇḍa
Mahādaṇḍadhāraṇī
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The Jeweled Rosary, The Unconquerable
Ratnamālāparājita
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The Dhāraṇī that Purifies All Hindrances
Sarvāntarāyikaviśodhanī dhāraṇī
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བར་གཅོད་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī that Confers Fearlessness
Sarvābhayapradā dhāraṇī
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The King of Spells of Dramiḍa
Āryadramiḍāvidyārāja
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འགྲོ་ལྡིང་བའི་རིག་སྔགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
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The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī
Gāthādvayadhāraṇī
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ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་གཉིས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Dhvajāgrakeyūrā
Dhvajāgrakeyūrādhāraṇī
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རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན་གྱི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of the Goddess Cundā
Cundādevīdhāraṇī
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ལྷ་མོ་སྐུལ་བྱེད་མའི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī of the Goddess Cundā consists of an homage, invocation, and description of the Goddess Cundā followed by a request to Cundā for protection and good fortune.
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The Dhāraṇī, The Excellent Method
Sumukhadhāraṇī
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The Dhāraṇī, Reliance upon Many Sons
Bahuputrapratisaraṇadhāraṇī
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The Dhāraṇī, Seven Zombies
Saptavetālakadhāraṇī / saptavetāḍakadhāraṇī
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Auspicious Night
Bhadrakarātrī
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མཚན་མོ་བཟང་པོ།
In Auspicious Night, the deity Candana appears before a monk in Rājagṛha and asks if he knows of the Buddha’s teaching called Auspicious Night. Since the monk has never heard of it, the deity encourages the monk to ask the Buddha himself, who is staying nearby. At the monk’s request, the Buddha teaches him how to continuously remain in a contemplative state by following these guidelines: do not follow after the past, do not be anxious about the future, and do not be led astray or become distracted by presently arisen states. The Buddha then teaches several mantras and incantations for the welfare of all sentient beings and explains the apotropaic and salvific benefits of the instructions.
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The Sūtra of Taking Back Vitality
Ojaḥpratyañjanasūtra
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The Spell for Cleansing the Eyes
Cakṣurviśodhanavidyāmantra
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The Sūtra for Assuaging Eye Disease
Akṣirogapraśamanasūtra
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The Sūtra for Assuaging Hemorrhoids
Arśapraśamanasūtra
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The Dhāraṇī for Assuaging All Illnesses
Sarvarogapraśamanī dhāraṇī
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ནད་ཐམས་ཅད་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་བྱེད་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī for Assuaging All Illnesses
Sarvarogapraśamanī dhāraṇī
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The Dhāraṇī for Assuaging Epidemic Fevers
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The Dhāraṇī for Assuaging Epidemic Fevers
Jvarapraśamanī dhāraṇī
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རིམས་ནད་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī for Assuaging Smallpox
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འབྲུམ་ནད་ཞི་བར་འགྱུར་བའི་གཟུངས།
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Not Taking Back Vitality
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The Mahāsūtra “On Entering the City of Vaiśālī”
Vaiśālīpraveśamahāsūtra
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ཡངས་པའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་མདོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Invited to visit the city of Vaiśālī, which has been ravaged by a terrible epidemic, the Buddha instructs Ānanda to stand at the city’s gate and recite a proclamation, a long mantra, and some verses that powerfully evoke spiritual well-being. Ānanda does so, and the epidemic comes to an end. One of the mahāsūtras related to the literature of the Vinaya, this text, like other accounts of the incident, has traditionally been recited during times of personal or collective illness, bereavement, and other difficulties.
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The Dhāraṇī for Triumphing Over Bandits
Cauravidhvaṃsanī dhāraṇī
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མི་རྒོད་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra for Eliminating All Hindrances
Sarvāntarāyikasaṃgrāsadhāraṇīmantra
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བར་གཅོད་སེལ་བའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Acala
Acaladhāraṇī
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མི་གཡོ་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The Shorter Tantra for the Practice of the King of Vajra Wrath
Vajrakrodharājakalpalaghutantra
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རྡོ་རྗེ་ཁྲོ་བོའི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་རྟོག་པ་བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད།
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The Dhāraṇī Known as “Golden”
Kāñcanavatī dhāraṇī
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གསེར་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara
Avalokiteśvarāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Maitreya
Maitreyanāmāṣṭottaraśatakaṃ dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Khagarbha [Ākāśagarbha]
Khagarbhāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Samantabhadra
Samantabhadrāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Vajrapāṇi
Vajrapāṇyaṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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One Hundred and Eight Names of Youthful Mañjuśrī Accompanied by His Dhāraṇī-Mantra
Mañjuśrīkumārabhūtāṣṭottaraśatakanāmadhāraṇīmantrasahita
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འཇམ་དཔལ་གཞོན་ནུར་འགྱུར་པའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་གཟུངས་སྔགས་དང་བཅས་པ།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Kṣitigarbha
Kṣitigarbhāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī
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One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī belongs to a class of texts praising a select deity through a series of one hundred and eight names, each conveying a distinctive feature of the deity’s appearance, realization, or activity as supreme teacher. The present text includes a brief mantra and concludes with a brief description of the benefits of retaining, reciting, and recollecting the names throughout one’s life, especially at the time of death.
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The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Pledge
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The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Pledge is a short dhāraṇī centered on Maitreya, the bodhisattva who will, as alluded to in this text, awaken as the next buddha in our world. Its dhāraṇī consists of a root mantra, heart mantra, and auxiliary heart mantra and is followed by Maitreya’s vow to benefit beings. The benefits of the dhāraṇī range from receiving prophecies for awakening to acquiring one’s desired material enjoyments. Since these benefits also extend to animals, the text advocates reciting its dhāraṇī so that animals may hear it as well.
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The Sūtra of the Eight Maṇḍalas
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The Dhāraṇī, The Production of Ambrosia
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The Dhāraṇī of Refuge for the Preta Flaming Mouth
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The Dhāraṇī of Refuge for the Preta Flaming Mouth recounts the nocturnal encounter of the monk Nanda with a gruesome preta (“hungry ghost”) who predicts his imminent death. After recounting his experience to the Buddha, he is taught a dhāraṇī and an associated food offering ritual to allay the sufferings of pretas and avert his prophesied fate.
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The Bali Ritual to Relieve the Female Preta Flaming Mouth
Mañjuśrībhaṭṭārakasya prajñābuddhivardhana
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This short text narrates Ānanda’s nocturnal encounter in the Banyan Grove in Kapilavastu with a gruesome female preta, or “hungry ghost,” with a burning mouth. The ghost tells Ānanda that he will die imminently and be reborn in the realm of the pretas unless he satisfies innumerable pretas with offerings of food the following morning. Terrified, Ānanda goes quickly to the Buddha and asks for advice. The Buddha then teaches Ānanda a dhāraṇī and an associated food offering ritual that together will satisfy innumerable ghosts and will cause offerings to the Three Jewels to multiply. The Buddha then instructs Ānanda to memorize and widely propagate this practice.
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The Dhāraṇī for Overcoming Hindrances
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Essence of Meteoric Gnosis
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The Dhāraṇī for Developing Insight
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The Dhāraṇī for Retaining What One Hears
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The Dhāraṇī of the Bodhisattva Supreme Conqueror
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The Mahāsūtra, the Sūtra of the Great Assembly
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The Dhāraṇī of the Ocean of Dharma
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The Dhāraṇī which Removes Hindrances
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The Mahāsūtra, the Āṭānāṭīya Sūtra
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The Great Cloud (2)
Mahāmegha
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This brief discourse is identified more precisely in its colophon as a supplementary chapter from The Great Cloud on “the array of winds that bring down rainfall.” It describes a visit from the Buddha Śākyamuni to the realm of the nāgas. The assembly of nāgas pays homage to the Buddha with a grand panoply of magically emanated offerings, and their king asks him to explain how the nāgas can eliminate their own suffering and aid sentient beings by causing timely rain to fall. The Buddha, in response, extols the benefits of loving-kindness and then teaches them a dhāraṇī that when accompanied by the recitation of a host of buddha names will dispel the nāgas’ suffering and cause crops to grow. At the nāga king’s request, the Buddha then teaches another long dhāraṇī that will cause rain to fall during times of drought. The discourse concludes with instructions for constructing an altar and holding a ritual rainmaking service.
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The Essence of All the Nāgas, The Great Cloud Chapter on the Array of Winds
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The Dhāraṇī, The Questions of the Nāga King Tejasvin
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The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas”
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The Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas”
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The Dhāraṇī of Vasudhārā
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The Heart Mantra of Gaṇapati
Gaṇapatihṛdaya
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The Buddha teaches The Heart Mantra of Gaṇapati to Ānanda at Vulture Peak. He recites the mantra, then gives a brief account of the protective benefits accrued by its daily recitation.
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The Tantra of Great Gaṇapati
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The Tantra of Great Gaṇapati is a work in fifteen chapters that detail offering rites, mantra recitation practices, and meditation practices for propitiating various forms of the elephant-headed deity Gaṇapati.
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The Tantra of Glorious Mahākāla
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The Tantra of Glorious Mahākāla opens with Hayagrīva summoning Mahākāla from his abode in the palace called Joyous, located in a sandalwood grove in the great southeastern charnel ground, Aṭṭahāsa. This prompts the great king Virūpakṣa to request that Hayagrīva teach the rites and practices related to Mahākāla. Hayagrīva then delivers a series of instructions on the propitiation and worship of Mahākāla and rituals for destroying the enemies of the Buddhist teachings.
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The Dhāraṇī of Glorious Mahākāla
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The Dhāraṇī of Glorious Mahākāla opens at the Vajra Seat under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgayā shortly after the Buddha Śākyamuni has defeated Māra and his demonic horde and attained awakening. As Śākyamuni sits under the Bodhi tree, Mahākāla approaches him, prostrates at his feet, sits to one side, and offers to give him a vidyā, or “spell,” as a gift. Mahākāla then pronounces his vidyā and tells Śākyamuni that it can be used to prevent diseases and ward off potentially harmful spirit beings. The text then concludes with Mahākāla’s promise to Śākyamuni to act as a guardian of temples and maṇḍalas and to protect the Three Jewels.
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The Mahākāla Dhāraṇī: A Cure for All Diseases and Illnesses
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The Mahākāla Dhāraṇī: A Cure for All Diseases and Illnesses is a short work that contains a Mahākāla dhāraṇī recitation practice for removing illness from various parts of the body. The dhāraṇī progresses through a list of body parts, invoking Mahākāla to free each region from illness and disease.
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The Dhāraṇī of Devī Mahākālī
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The Dhāraṇī of Devī Mahākālī opens at the Bodhi tree in Bodhgayā shortly after the Buddha Śākyamuni has attained perfect awakening. As Śākyamuni sits at the base of the Bodhi tree, Devī Mahākālī circumambulates him three times and offers a vidyā, or “spell,” in homage at the Blessed One’s feet. Śākyamuni then expresses his wish that Mahākālī’s vidyā be used to bind all beings from the highest heaven down through the lowest hell of the desire realms.
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The Royal Tantra “Praises to Śrīdevī Kālī”
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The Essence of Aparimitāyus
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This extremely brief text provides a mantra of the Buddha Aparimitāyus, thus seeming to confirm its existence as a mantra on its own as well as being part of the dhāraṇī contained in the most widely used version of The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra.
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The Praise by Indra
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The Buddha, while at the Jetavana monastery in Śrāvastī, tells Mañjuśrī of a buddha realm far above the world, in which lives the Buddha Aparimitāyurjñāna. He states that those who recite, write, hear, and so on, the praise of this buddha, or make offerings to this text, will have numerous benefits, including a long life and a good rebirth. As vast numbers of buddhas recite it, the mantra, or dhāraṇī, of this buddha is repeated numerous times. This is the best known of the two versions of this sūtra in the Kangyur.
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The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (2)
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The Buddha, while at the Jetavana monastery in Śrāvastī, tells Mañjuśrī of a buddha realm far above the world, in which lives the Buddha Aparimitāyurjñāna. He states that those who recite, write, hear, and so on, the praise of this buddha, or make offerings to this text, will have numerous benefits, including a long life and a good rebirth. As vast numbers of buddhas recite it, the mantra, or dhāraṇī, of this buddha is repeated numerous times. This is the lesser known of the two versions of this sūtra in the Kangyur, but possibly represents the earlier translation.
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The Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom”
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The Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom” opens at a pool by the Ganges, where the Buddha Śākyamuni is seated with five hundred monks and a great saṅgha of bodhisattvas. The Buddha begins with a short set of verses on the Buddha Aparimitāyus, who dwells in the realm of Sukhāvatī, telling the gathering that anyone who recites Aparimitāyus’ name will be reborn in that buddha’s realm.
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of Amitābha
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Calling Amitābha to Mind
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The Dhāraṇī Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One
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The Dhāraṇī that Praises the Qualities of the Immeasurable One contains a short dhāraṇī mantra praising the tathāgata Amitābha and brief instructions on the benefits that result from its recitation.
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Essence of Sukhāvatī
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The Web of Lotuses, the Root Tantra of Avalokiteśvara
Avalokiteśvarapadmajālamūlatantrarāja
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་རྩ་རྒྱུད་པདྨ་དྲ་བ།
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The Sūtra, The Essence of Amoghapāśa
Amoghapāśahṛdayasūtra
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དོན་ཡོད་ཞགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོ།
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The Dhāraṇī, The Essence of Amoghapāśa
Amoghapāśahṛdayadhāraṇī
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དོན་ཡོད་ཞགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī, The Questions of Nārāyaṇa
Nārāyaṇaparipṛcchādhāraṇī
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སྲེད་མེད་ཀྱི་བུས་ཞུས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Nāgadatta, The Essence of the Nāgas
Nāgadattadhāraṇīnāgahṛdaya
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ཀླུ་བྱིན་པའི་གཟུངས་ཀླུའི་སྙིང་པོ།
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The Sovereign Ritual of Amoghapāśa
Amoghapāśakalparāja
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དོན་ཡོད་པའི་ཞགས་པའི་ཆོ་ག་ཞིབ་མོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
The Amoghapāśakalparāja is an early Kriyātantra of the lotus family. Historically, it is the main and largest compendium and manual of rites dedicated to Amoghapāśa, one of Avalokiteśvara’s principal emanations, who is named after and distinguished by his “unfailing noose” (amoghapāśa). The text is primarily soteriological, with an emphasis on the general Mahāyāna values of compassion and loving kindness for all beings. It offers many interesting insights into early Buddhist ritual and the development of its terminology.
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The Dhāraṇī, Fulfilling the Six Perfections of Amoghapāśa
Amoghapāśapāramitāṣaṭparipūrakadhāraṇī
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དོན་ཡོད་ཞགས་པའི་ཕར་ཕྱིན་དྲུག་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་ཀྱི་གཟུངས།
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Dhāraṇī of the Ten Grounds
Daśabhūmidhāraṇī
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ས་བཅུ་པའི་གཟུངས།
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Procedures for the King of Practices of Amoghapāśa
Amoghapāśakalparājavidhināma
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དོན་ཡོད་ཞགས་པའི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཆོ་ག་
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Detailed Procedures for the Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ལག་སྟོང་མིག་སྟོང་གི་ཆོ་ག་ཞིབ་མོ།
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The Dhāraṇī of the Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་སྟོང་སྤྱན་སྟོང་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī, The Wish-Fulfilling Wheel of Avalokiteśvara
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཡིད་བཞིན་འཁོར་ལོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of the Eleven Faced Avalokiteśvara
Avalokiteśvaraikādaśamukhadhāraṇī
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཞལ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པའི་གཟུངས།
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