The Kangyur
Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
གཟུངས་འདུས།
Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha
The actual collection of 250 dhāraṇī texts.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Threefold Ritual
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Trailokyavijayakalpa
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རྒྱུད་གསུམ་པ།
The Threefold Ritual contains a short liturgy for invoking the pantheon of worldly deities, inviting these beings to seize the rare opportunity to listen to the Dharma, and proclaiming the aspiration that all the worldly beings that have gathered to hear the Dharma receive their share of the merit one has generated.
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The Threefold Invocation Ritual
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སྤྱན་འདྲེན་རྒྱུད་གསུམ་པ།
The Threefold Invocation Ritual invokes all the deities of the threefold world that have “entered the path of compassion” and are “held by the hook of the vidyāmantra” to gather, pay heed to the person reciting this text (or the person for whom it is recited), and bear witness to the proclamation of that person’s commitment to the Buddhist teachings. A profound aspiration to practice ten aspects of a bodhisattva’s activity is then followed by a dedication and a prayer for the teachings.
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The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch
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Ratnolkādhāraṇī
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དཀོན་མཆོག་ཏ་ལ་ལའི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch starts with a profound conversation between the Buddha and the bodhisattvas Samantabhadra and Mañjuśrī on the nature of the dharmadhātu, buddhahood, and emptiness. The bodhisattva Dharmamati then enters the meditative absorption called the infinite application of the bodhisattva’s jewel torch and, at the behest of the millions of buddhas who have blessed him, emerges from it to teach how bodhisattvas arise from the presence of a tathāgata and progress to the state of omniscience. Following Dharmamati’s detailed exposition of the “ten categories” or progressive stages of a bodhisattva, the Buddha briefly teaches the mantra of the dhāraṇī and then, for most of the remainder of the text, encourages bodhisattvas in a long versified passage in which he recounts teachings by a bodhisattva called Bhadraśrī on the qualities of bodhisattvas and buddhas. Some verses from this passage on the virtues of faith have been widely quoted in both India and Tibet.
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The Dhāraṇī of the Tathāgata Jñānolka
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Jñānolkadhāraṇī
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ཡེ་ཤེས་ཏ་ལ་ལའི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī of the Tathāgata Jñānolka opens with a description of a group of four tathāgatas and four bodhisattvas, who are seated in the celestial palace of the Sun and the Moon. The deities of the Sun and Moon return to their celestial palace from elsewhere and, seeing these tathāgatas and bodhisattvas, both wonder whether they might obtain a dhāraṇī that would allow them to dispel the darkness and shine a light upon all beings. The tathāgatas, perceiving the thoughts of the Sun and Moon, provide them with the first dhāraṇī in the text. The bodhisattva Samantabhadra then provides a second dhāraṇī and instructs the deities of the Sun and Moon to use it to free beings who are bound for rebirth in the lower realms—even those who have been born in the darkest depths of the Avīci hell.
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The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (1)
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Aparimitāyurjñānasūtra
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ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་མདོ།
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 Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom”
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Aparimitāyurjñānahṛdayadhāraṇī
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ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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. He then provides a unique description of Sukhāvatī, followed by instructions for two practices, related to the text’s dhāraṇī, that can grant rebirth in Sukhāvatī in the next life.
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The Dhāraṇī Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One
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Aparimitaguṇānuśāṁsadhāraṇī
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ཡོན་ཏན་བསྔགས་པ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་གཟུངས།
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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The Seven Buddhas
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Saptabuddhaka
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སངས་རྒྱས་བདུན་པ།
The Seven Buddhas opens with the Buddha Śākyamuni residing in an alpine forest on Mount Kailāsa with a saṅgha of monks and bodhisattvas. The Buddha notices that a monk in the forest has been possessed by a spirit, which prompts the bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha to request that the Buddha teach a spell to cure diseases and exorcise demonic spirits. The Buddha then emanates as the set of “seven successive buddhas,” each of whom transmits a dhāraṇī to Ākāśagarbha. Each of the seven buddhas then provides ritual instructions for using the dhāraṇī.
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The Twelve Buddhas
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Dvādaśabuddhaka
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སངས་རྒྱས་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།
The Twelve Buddhas opens at Rājagṛha with a dialogue between the Buddha Śākyamuni and the bodhisattva Maitreya about the eastern buddhafield of a buddha whose abbreviated name is King of Jewels. This buddha prophesies that when he passes into complete nirvāṇa, the bodhisattva Incomparable will take his place as a buddha whose abbreviated name is Victory Banner King. Śākyamuni then provides the names of the remaining ten tathāgatas, locating them in the ten directions surrounding Victory Banner King’s buddhafield Full of Pearls. After listing the full set of names of these twelve buddhas and their directional relationship to Victory Banner King, the Buddha Śākyamuni provides an accompanying mantra-dhāraṇī and closes with a set of thirty-seven verses outlining the benefits of remembering the names of these buddhas.
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The Discourse of the Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence
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Buddhahṛdayadhāraṇīdharmaparyāya
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སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས།
The Discourse of the Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence is a short work in which the Buddha Śākyamuni, addressing an immense gathering of bodhisattvas, teaches two dhāraṇīs to be recited as a complement to the practice of recollecting the Buddha, and then explains the beneficial results of reciting them. The significance of the teaching is marked by miraculous signs, and by the gods offering flowers and ornaments. The text also provides a set of correspondences between the eight ornaments offered by the gods and eight qualities that ornament bodhisattvas.
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The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence
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Buddhahṛdayadhāraṇī
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སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence is structured as a dialogue between the Buddha and a retinue of gods from the Śuddhāvāsa realm. The dialogue revolves around the Buddha’s parinirvāṇa and the role that the gods of Śuddhāvāsa can play in continuing to guide beings in his absence until the next tathāgata appears in the world. The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence is then introduced as the specific instruction that the gods of Śuddhāvāsa should preserve and propagate after Śākyamuni has departed. The Buddha then provides a list of benefits that members of the saṅgha can accrue by reciting this dhāraṇī.
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The Dhāraṇī Endowed with the Attributes of All the Buddhas
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Sarvabuddhāṅgavatīdhāraṇī
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སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་དང་ལྡན་པའི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī Endowed with the Attributes of All the Buddhas details a brief exchange between the Buddha and the four guardian kings of the world, that is, the four divine beings who rule over the cardinal directions in the Indian Buddhist tradition. Pursuant to a description of the fears that plague mankind, the Buddha declares that he will provide remedies for them. Invoking the presence of numberless buddhas in the limitless world systems described in Buddhist cosmology, the Buddha and the four kings provide several mantras of varying lengths meant for daily recitation, with the stated benefits not only of averting all manner of calamities—untimely death, illness, and injury chief among them—but of attracting the attention and blessings of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, and ensuring good health and benefit for the practitioner and all beings.
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The Dhāraṇī, the Sandalwood Branch
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Candanāṅgadhāraṇī
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The Dhāraṇī of Agrapradīpa
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Agrapradīpadhāraṇī
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སྒྲོན་མ་མཆོག་གི་གཟུངས།
The Noble King of Spells, the Dhāraṇī of Agrapradīpa presents six distinct dhāraṇī formulas that can be used for protection from threatening forces and illness, to facilitate the path to awakening, and to bring the practitioner into harmony with other beings. As the Buddha Śākyamuni resides at Jeta Grove near the city of Śrāvastī, he is visited by two bodhisattvas sent as emissaries by the Buddha Agrapradīpa, who resides in a distant buddhafield named Infinite Flowers. These bodhisattvas present the first of the six dhāraṇīs as an offering to Śākyamuni from Agrapradīpa. Inspired by their example, additional dhāraṇīs are then presented: one each by Maitreya and Mañjuśrī, two by Śākyamuni himself, and a final formula recited by the Four Great Kings. After the presentation of each dhāraṇī, the Buddha tells Ānanda of the rarity of such dhāraṇīs and describes the benefits that accrue from their recitation.
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The Dhāraṇī of Abhiṣecanī
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The Essence Dhāraṇī of Śākyamuni
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རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Essence Dhāraṇī of the Tathāgata Bhaiṣajyaguru
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དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་སྨན་གྱི་བླའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of Amitābha
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This short untitled text teaches a dhāraṇī and a rite for its practice.
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The Dhāraṇī of Padmanetra
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Calling Amitābha to Mind
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Recollecting the Name of Moonlight
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ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཀྱི་མཚན་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ།
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Recollecting the Common Essence of the Tathāgatas
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དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྤྱིའི་སྙིང་པོ་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ།
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Recollecting the Names of the Buddha Ratnaśikhin
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སངས་རྒྱས་རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན་གྱི་མཚན་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ།
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The Dhāraṇī known as "Distinctive"
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Viśeṣavatī dhāraṇī
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The One Hundred and Eight Names of Lord Buddha along with the Dhāraṇī
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སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་གཟུངས་སྔགས་དང་བཅས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara
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Avalokiteśvarāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Maitreya
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Maitreyanāmāṣṭottaraśatakaṃ dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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བྱམས་པའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Khagarbha [Ākāśagarbha]
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Khagarbhāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Samantabhadra
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Samantabhadrāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Vajrapāṇi
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Vajrapāṇyaṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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One Hundred and Eight Names of Youthful Mañjuśrī Accompanied by His Dhāraṇī-Mantra
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Mañjuśrīkumārabhūtāṣṭottaraśatakanāmadhāraṇīmantrasahita
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འཇམ་དཔལ་གཞོན་ནུར་འགྱུར་པའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་གཟུངས་སྔགས་དང་བཅས་པ།
One Hundred and Eight Names in Praise of Youthful Mañjuśrī Accompanied by His Dhāraṇī-Mantra is a text notably combining two genres of Buddhist literature: the dhāraṇī and the stotra or praise text. As a praise text, it may be further categorized within the subgenre of praises of one hundred and eight names. The text opens with homage and praise to the buddhas of the ten directions and two brief praises to Mañjuśrī. Then Mañjuśrī himself articulates a Sanskrit dhāraṇī, which precipitates miracles and prompts the assembled gods to praise him by way of reciting a litany of his hundred and eight names. Upon its conclusion, Mañjuśrī expresses his pleasure, whereupon the Tathāgata expounds the dhāraṇī’s benefits, blesses the gods who spoke the hundred and eight names in praise, and lastly explains in considerable detail the practice of the praise’s recitation and the benefits thereof.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
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Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhināmāṣṭottaraśatakaṃ dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ་གྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Kṣitigarbha
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Kṣitigarbhāṣṭottaraśatakanāma dhāraṇīmantrasahitam
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སའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པའི་གཟུངས་སྔགས།
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The Sūtra of the Eight Maṇḍalas
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Aṣṭamaṇḍalakasūtra
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དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་བརྒྱད་པའི་མདོ།
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The Dhāraṇī for Secret Relics
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Guhyadhātudhāraṇī
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གསང་བ་རིང་བསྲེལ་གྱི་གཟུངས།
On his way to honor a brahmin’s invitation for a midday meal, the Buddha comes across an old stūpa that resembles a rubbish heap. Subsequently, while in conversation with Vajrapāṇi, the Buddha reveals that the stūpa contains the doctrinal synopsis for a dhāraṇī that embodies the essence of the blessings of innumerable buddhas. He also explains that the stūpa is, in fact, made of precious materials and that its lowly appearance is merely due to the lack of beings’ merit. The Buddha then extols the merit that results from copying, reading, and worshiping this scripture, and he enumerates the benefits that arise from placing it in stūpas and buddha images. When he pronounces the actual dhāraṇī, the derelict old stūpa is restored to its former glory.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya
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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. The main dhāraṇī, with the name vimaloṣṇīṣa, “stainless uṣṇīṣa,” was widely used in central and northeast Asian Buddhism, especially in the context of purification, consecration, and inauguration rituals.
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Dhāraṇī
Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Dhāraṇī of the Sovereign Practice of the Supreme Secret Found Especially in the Great Jewel Palace
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Mahāmaṇivipulavimānasupratiṣṭhitaguhyaparamarahasyakalparājadhāraṇī
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ནོར་ཆེན་རྒྱས་པའི་གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་ཤིན་ཏུ་རབ་ཏུ་གནས་པ་གསང་བ་དམ་པའི་གསང་བའི་ཆོ་ག་ཞིབ་མོའི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī “Heap of Flowers”
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Puṣpakūṭadhāraṇī
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མེ་ཏོག་བརྩེགས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī, Lord of the Earth
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Mahāmahīndradhāraṇī
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སའི་དབང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Great Dhāraṇī
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Mahādhāraṇī
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གཟུངས་ཆེན་པོ།
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Essence of Sukhāvatī
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བདེ་ལྡན་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
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The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Pledge
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Maitreyapratijñādhāraṇī
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བྱམས་པས་དམ་བཅས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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 Dhāraṇī of Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin
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Āvaraṇaviṣkambhidhāraṇī
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སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བའི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī of Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin presents two short dhāraṇīs that purify evil deeds, ease the dying process, and bring about birth in the heavenly realms.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
Spoken by Mañjuśrī Himself
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Mañjuśrīsvākhyāta
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འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་ཞལ་ནས་གསུངས་པ།
Spoken by Mañjuśrī Himself provides an incantatory practice taught by Mañjuśrī. The dhāraṇī has two sections: the first extols Mañjuśrī as a tathāgata, an arhat, and a perfectly awakened buddha, and the second invokes a bhagavatī who is praised as an illuminator and supplicated for protection.
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Mañjuśrī’s Sworn Oath
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འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱིས་དམོད་བཙུགས་པ།
Mañjuśrī’s Sworn Oath provides instruction in an incantatory practice focused on Mañjuśrī, in the form of a vidyā that Mañjuśrī himself pronounces. The vidyā unfolds in a series of forceful imperatives suggestive of battle, conquest, and celebration, and after enunciating it, Mañjuśrī explains that its recitation will lead to virtuosity in the memorization of scriptural verses. The benefits of recitation are then enumerated in more detail, relative to the number of times it is recited and whether the recitation is accompanied by ritual performance. As indicated by the title, Mañjuśrī then swears an oath to assure the vidyā’s efficacy, pledging to take on the karmic burden of the five misdeeds with immediate retribution should its promised benefits fail to ensue.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Epithets of Mañjuśrī
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འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་མཚན།
The Epithets of Mañjuśrī is a concise scripture consisting of a salutation to Mañjuśrī that highlights the qualities of his speech, a thirty-six-syllable Sanskrit dhāraṇī, and a one-sentence statement of the benefit accrued by twenty-one recitations thereof.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Noble Lord Mañjuśrī’s Dḥāraṇī for Increasing Insight and Intelligence
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Mañjuśrībhaṭṭārakasya prajñābuddhivardhana
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རྗེ་བཙུན་འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་ཤེས་རབ་དང་བློ་འཕེལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས།
Mañjuśrī’s Increasing of Insight and Intelligence is a short dhāraṇī scripture centered on the figure of Mañjuśrī. It opens with a salutation to the Three Jewels, followed by the Sanskrit dhāraṇī proper, and concludes with an enumeration of the benefits accrued by its memorization. These include the swift attainment of intelligence, a melodious voice, and a beautiful appearance. It also extols physical contact with the material text, which is said to enable recollection of one’s former lives. The scripture concludes with a brief statement of the benefits accrued by extensive recitation, which culminate in beholding the very face of Mañjuśrī.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Procedure for Mañjuśrī’s Single-Syllable Mantra
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འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱི་སྔགས་ཡི་གེ་འབྲུ་གཅིག་པའི་ཆོ་ག།
The Procedure for Mañjuśrī's Single-Syllable Mantra is a pithy text extolling an exceedingly secret and potent single-syllable mantra. Following a note regarding its universal efficacy, the remaining portion of the text outlines ritual applications for the remediation of specific ailments through the consecration of common items as sacral implements in rites of healing.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
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
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Avalokiteśvaraikādaśamukhadhāraṇī
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཞལ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara
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Avalokiteśvarasya nāmāṣṭaśatakam
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ།
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The Sūtra, The Essence of Amoghapāśa
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Amoghapāśahṛdayasūtra
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དོན་ཡོད་ཞགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོ།
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Dhāraṇī of the Ten Grounds
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Daśabhūmidhāraṇī
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ས་བཅུ་པའི་གཟུངས།
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Dhāraṇī, Fulfilling the Six Perfections of Amoghapāśa
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Amoghapāśapāramitāṣaṭparipūrakadhāraṇī
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དོན་ཡོད་ཞགས་པའི་ཕར་ཕྱིན་དྲུག་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་ཀྱི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Samantabhadra
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Samantabhadradhāraṇī
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ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Nīlakaṇṭha
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Nīlakaṇṭhadhāraṇī
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ནཱི་ལ་ཀཎྛའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Avalokiteśvara Hayagrīva
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Avalokiteśvarahayagrīvadhāraṇī
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཧ་ཡ་གྲཱི་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Mekhalā
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Mekhalādhāraṇī
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མེ་ཁ་ལའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī, Undeterred Through Compassion
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Karuṇānāvṛttadhāraṇī
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སྙིང་རྗེས་མི་བཤོལ་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī “The Mother of Avalokiteśvara”
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Avalokiteśvaramātādhāraṇī
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཡུམ་གི་གཟུངས།
In this short sūtra, the bodhisattva Samantabhadra asks the Buddha to reveal The Mother of Avalokiteśvara, a powerful dhāraṇī that helps practitioners progress on the path to awakening. The Buddha grants his request and relates how he had himself received the dhāraṇī. Samantabhadra then speaks the dhāraṇī, after which the Buddha states its benefits.
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Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
The Dhāraṇī of Avalokiteśvara
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Avalokiteśvaradhāraṇī
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་གཟུངས།
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The Essence of Avalokiteśvara
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
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The Dhāraṇī of Siṃhanāda’s Promise
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སེང་གེ་སྒྲས་དམ་བཅས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of the Apex of Compassion
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Karuṇāgradhāraṇī
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སྙིང་རྗེའི་མཆོག་གི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī for Achieving the Boundless Gate
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Anantamukhasādhakadhāraṇī
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སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī, The Excellent Method
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Sumukhadhāraṇī
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The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates
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Ṣaṇmukhīdhāraṇī
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སྒོ་དྲུག་པའི་གཟུངས།
While the Buddha is abiding in the space above the Śuddhāvāsa realm with a retinue of bodhisattvas, he urges them to uphold The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates and presents these gates as six aspirations that vanquish the causes of saṃsāric experience. He then presents the dhāraṇī itself to his listeners and instructs them to recite it three times each day and three times each night. Finally, he indicates the benefits that come from this practice, and the assembly praises the Buddha’s words. This is followed by a short dedication marking the conclusion of the text.
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The Six Syllable Spell
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Ṣaḍakṣaravidyā
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ཡི་གེ་དྲུག་པའི་རིག་སྔགས།
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Gāthādvayadhāraṇī
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ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་གཉིས་པའི་གཟུངས།
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Dhāraṇī for a Beautiful Slender Physique
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Ruciraṅgayaṣṭidhāraṇī
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ལུས་ཀྱི་དབྱིབས་མཛེས་ཀྱི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī “One Hundred Thousand Ornaments of the Essence of Awakening”
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Bodhigarbhālaṅkāralakṣadhāraṇī
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བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན་འབུམ་གྱི་གཟུངས།
This short text presents a set of mantras that, when placed inside a stūpa, multiply the merit of having built one stūpa by one hundred thousand. These dhāraṇīs are specifically said to be of benefit to future generations whose merit will be weak.
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The Dhāraṇī that Makes Erecting One Reliquary Like Erecting Ten Million
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མཆོད་རྟེན་གཅིག་བཏབ་ན་བྱེ་བ་བཏབ་པར་འགྱུར་བའི་གཟུངས།
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Cūḍāmaṇidhāraṇī
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གཙུག་གི་ནོར་བུའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī of Dhvajāgrakeyūrā
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Dhvajāgrakeyūrādhāraṇī
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རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན་གྱི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī Known as “Golden”
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Kāñcanavatī dhāraṇī
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གསེར་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī that Confers Fearlessness
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Sarvābhayapradā dhāraṇī
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མི་འཇིགས་པ་རབ་ཏུ་སྦྱིན་པའི་གཟུངས།
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The Dhāraṇī that Purifies All Hindrances
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Sarvāntarāyikaviśodhanī dhāraṇī
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བར་གཅོད་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བའི་གཟུངས།
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The King of Spells of Dramiḍa
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Āryadramiḍāvidyārāja
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འགྲོ་ལྡིང་བའི་རིག་སྔགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
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Aparājitā, who Grants Fearlessness
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Abhayapradāparājitā
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གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་པ་མི་འཇིགས་པ་སྦྱིན་པ།