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The '''five great [[dharani]]s''' or more literally the '''five classes of great dharanis''' (Tib. གཟུངས་ཆེན་སྡེ་ལྔ་, ''zung chen dé nga'', [[Wyl.]] ''gzungs chen sde lnga'') — the [[Fifth Dalai Lama]] said that the most important relic of the [[dharmakaya]] (Wyl. ''chos kyi sku’i ring bsrel'') in a [[stupa]] are dharanis.<ref>Bentor  Yael “On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan Practice of Depositing Relics and Dhāraṇī in Stūpas and Images,” in ''Journal of the American Oriental Society 115, (2),'' 1995: 254.</ref> In particular, Tibetan scholars, group together five classes of dharanis, which are inserted as dharmakaya relics. [[Jamgön Kongtrul]] explains that, whether elaborate or short, one kind of each of these five dharanis must be inserted in every stupa together with the ''Kriyayogatantra'', ''Spotless Rays of Light'' (Skt. ''Raśmivimalā''; [[Wyl.]] ''’od zer dri med'').<ref>Kunsang Namgyal Lama, "Tsha Tsha Inscriptions: A Preliminary Survey," in ''Tibetan Inscriptions: Proceedings of a Panel held at the Twelfth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010,'' (Leiden: Brill, 2013): 25 - 26.</ref>

#[[Ushnishavijaya]] (Skt. ''Uṣṇīṣavijayā''; Tib. གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ་, ''Tsuktor Namgyalma'', Wyl. ''gtsug tor rnam rgyal ma'') dharani
#Vimaloshnisha (Skt. ''Vimaloṣṇīṣa''; Tib. གཙུག་ཏོར་དྲི་མེད་, ''Tsuktor Drimed'', Wyl. ''gtsug tor dri med'') dharani
# Guhyadhatu (Skt. ''Guhyadhātu''; Wyl. ''gsang ba ring bsrel'') dharani
# Bodhigarbhalamkaralaksha (Skt. ''Bodhigarbhālaṃkāralakṣa''; Wyl. ''byang chub rgyan 'bum'') dharani
#[[Essence of Dependent Origination dharani]] (Skt. ''Pratītyasamutpādahṛdaya''; [[Wyl.]] ''rten 'brel snying po'')

==References==
* See Kunsang Namgyal Lama. "Tsha Tsha Inscriptions: A Preliminary Survey." In ''Tibetan Inscriptions: Proceedings of a Panel held at the Twelfth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010.'' Edited by Kurt Tropper, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Leiden: Brill, 2013: 1 - 42.
* Bentor, Yael. "On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan Practice of Depositing Relics and Dhāraṇī in Stūpas and Images." In ''Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115 (2),'' 1995: 248 - 261.
* Bentor, Yael. "The Content of Stūpas and Images and the Indo-Tibetan Concept of Relics." In ''The Tibet Journal 28 (1-2),'' 2003: 21 - 48.

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