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This short text―'''The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm”''' (Tib. སྟོང་ཆེན་མོ་རབ་ཏུ་འཇོམས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ།, [[Wyl.]] ''stong chen mo rab tu 'joms pa’i smon lam'') ―contains a set of verses spoken by [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] as he put an end to the epidemic of [[Vaishali]], extracted from one of the two main accounts of that episode. The verses call for well-being, especially by invoking the qualities of the [[Three Jewels]] and a range of realized beings and eminent gods. The text comprises two passages from the parent work, and of these the first and longest corresponds closely to a well-known Pali text, the Ratana-sutta, widely recited for protection and blessings.

The parent text in question, Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm (Toh 558), is itself one of the texts that belong to the  [[Pancha Raksha]] group, a set of works centred on five protector goddesses each of whom both personifies and is invoked by a specific dharani, and is found in the [[Action Tantra]] section of the Tantra Collection in the  [[Derge Kangyur]]. .<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>

==Text==
The Tibetan translation of this text can be found in the Aspiration section of the [[Dharani]] section of the Tibetan [[Dergé Kangyur]], [[Toh]]1098. It is also catalogued as Toh 813 in the [[Dedication]] & Aspiration section of the Tantra Collection.

*English translation: {{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh1002.html| The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm”}}

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