Tibetan Buddhism

The Dhāraṇī “The Essence of Vairocana”

རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས།

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English
Period
Kangyur · 84000 translation
Tradition
Tibetan Buddhism
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The Dhāraṇī “The Essence of Vairocana”, which pays homage to the Three Jewels, the Buddha Vairocana, and the bodhisattva mahāsattva Ākāśagarbha, contains the dhāraṇī of Vairocana or Ākāśagarbha. It lists the following benefits for one who recites it: protection from weapons, fire, water, poison, poisoned food and drink, hostile magic, kings, thieves, epidemics, pain, contagions, and so forth, and the attainment of the samādhi called stainless light.

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    84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha · CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 · Bruno Galasek-Hul

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