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In the middle of the night, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is immersed in meditation, Brahmā, lord of the Sahā world, appears before him and asks him how bodhisattvas can quickly achieve full awakening. In response, the Buddha gives a teaching on mindfulness of the body. The following morning, when Brahmā has departed, the Buddha relays his teaching to the monks.

In Vidyutprāpta’s Questions, the bodhisattva Vidyutprāpta asks the Buddha how to guide others to enlightenment while remaining aware of the emptiness of all phenomena. The Buddha explains five “treasures” that enable a bodhisattva to teach the Dharma without attachment, culminating in the treasure of the Dharma—knowledge of the true nature of dharmas and skill in explaining this to ordinary beings.

The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [2], the fourth of the “five beak dhāraṇīs,” is a rare Degé Kangyur scripture on weather control. In Indra’s Rock Cave, the Buddha teaches Śakra a dhāraṇī to guard against asuras, protect the Dharma, and ensure proper rainfall for abundant harvests.

The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak, one of the “five beak dhāraṇīs,” is a rare scripture in the Degé Kangyur on weather control. Set in Indra’s Rock Cave, it features the Buddha teaching Śakra a wrathful dhāraṇī for protecting the Dharma, along with ritual instructions and an exhortation for secrecy.

In The Teaching to the Venerable Nanda on Dwelling in the Womb, the Buddha describes the thirty-eight weeks of human gestation to break Nanda’s attachment to his wife and guide him toward monastic life. This sūtra, which also explores the antarābhava and the suffering of existence, became a key source for embryology in Tibetan medicine.

Set in Indra’s Rock Cave, The Dhāraṇī That Fully Confers Freedom From All Dangers describes the Buddha teaching Śakra a vidyāmantra to subdue asuras and protect against various dangers, including disease, poisons, weapons, and malevolent beings. The text emphasizes grahas as a source of affliction and provides ritual instructions for using the mantra on threads, substances, or armor for protection and success.

The Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” describes a recitation practice to dispel negative influences from the celestial grahas and protect beings from harm. This practice is part of a longstanding South Asian tradition of making offerings to appease the grahas.

The Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” provides instructions for a maṇḍala offering and dhāraṇī recitation to appease the nine celestial grahas and harmful beings. This practice is part of a longstanding South Asian tradition of making offerings to gain the favor of the grahas.

The Four Stanzas consists of six verses in total. It is a praise to the Buddha, to the places associated with his presence, and to stūpas. The praise itself comprises the first four verses, hence the text’s title. The last two verses explain the origin of the text and the benefits that accrue from its recitation.

The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī consists of two initial verses that enumerate eight obscurations and their antidote‍—the Mahāyāna teachings‍—followed by a dhāraṇī and three verses that list the ten beneficial results of reciting the text.

The Single Stanza is a praise to the Buddha in one verse. It states that there is no ascetic equal to the Buddha, neither among the gods nor in the ordinary world.

This is one of two short texts with the same title, The Noble Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara, each of which enumerates the hundred and eight “names” of Avalokiteśvara, which are more like descriptive epithets. The first part of the text describes his many excellent qualities. The second part of the text describes the benefits that result from praising Avalokiteśvara with these names.

This is one of two short texts titled The Noble Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteśvara, listing the hundred and eight names of Avalokiteśvara. The text first describes his excellent qualities, then explains the benefits of praising him with these names.

The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines is the longest of all the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras. Like the other two long sūtras, it is a detailed record of the teaching on the perfection of wisdom that the Buddha Śākyamuni gave on Vulture Peak in Rājagṛha. This newest supplement includes the first twenty-eight of the seventy-two chapters of the sūtra, and represents a little under eight of the twelve volumes.

The Exemplary Tale of Śārdūlakarṇa begins with Prakṛti, an outcaste girl, attaining liberation under the Buddha’s guidance. To explain this to Śrāvastī’s upper-caste community, the Buddha recounts a past life where he, as an outcaste king, overcame caste prejudice through wisdom, revealing the irrelevance of caste in light of karma and merit.