Five classes of great dharanis

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Five classes of great dharanis (Wyl. gzungs chen sde lnga). Tibetan scholars groups together five classes of dharanis, which, when inserted in a Stupa constitute the the Dharmakāya relics (Tib. chos kyi sku’i ring bsrel).

  1. Ushnishavijaya (Skt. Uṣṇīṣavijayā; Tib. གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ་, Tsuktor Namgyalma; Wyl. gtsug tor rnam rgyal ma)
  2. Vimaloshnisha (Skt. Vimaloṣṇīṣa; Tib. གཙུག་ཏོར་དྲི་མེད་, Tsuktor Drimed; Wyl. gtsug tor dri med)
  3. Guhyadhatu (Skt. Guhyadhātu; Wyl. gsang ba ring bsrel)
  4. Bodhigarbhalamkaralaksha (Skt. Bodhigarbhālaṃkāralakṣa; Wyl. byang chub rgyan 'bum)
  5. Essence of Dependent Origination dharani (Skt. Pratītyasamutpāda; 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, Y. On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan Practice of Depositing Relics and Dhāraṇī in Stūpas and Images. JAOS, 115 (2), 1995: 248 - 261.
  • Bentor, Y. The Content of Stūpas and Images and the Indo-Tibetan Concept of Relics. The Tibet Journal 28 (1-2), 2003: 21 - 48.