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The [[tantra]] known as '''Upholding the Great Secret Mantra''' (Skt. ''Mahā­mantrānudhāraṇi'', Tib. གསང་སྔགས་ཆེན་པོ་རྗེས་སུ་འཛིན་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''gsang sngags chen po rjes su 'dzin pa'') is found in the [[Kriyātantra]] section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] (Toh. 563).
The [[tantra]] known as '''''Upholding the Great Secret Mantra''''' (Skt. ''Mahā­mantrānudhāraṇi''; Tib. གསང་སྔགས་ཆེན་པོ་རྗེས་སུ་འཛིན་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''gsang sngags chen po rjes su 'dzin pa'') is found in the [[Kriyātantra]] section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] (Toh. 563).


This [[tantra]] is one of five texts that together constitute the [[Pañcarakṣā]] scriptural collection, popular for centuries as an important facet of [[Mahāyāna]]-[[Vajrayāna]] Buddhism’s traditional approach to personal and communal misfortunes of all kinds. It addresses a range of human ailments, as well as misfortunes such as robbery, natural disaster, and criminal punishment, thought to be brought on especially through the animosity of non-human spirit entities.
This tantra is one of five texts that together constitute the [[Pañcarakṣā]] scriptural collection, popular for centuries as an important facet of [[Mahāyāna]]-[[Vajrayāna]] Buddhism’s traditional approach to personal and communal misfortunes of all kinds. It addresses a range of human ailments, as well as misfortunes such as robbery, natural disaster, and criminal punishment, thought to be brought on especially through the animosity of non-human spirit entities.


==English Translation==
==English Translation==
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Revision as of 20:46, 17 January 2018

The tantra known as Upholding the Great Secret Mantra (Skt. Mahā­mantrānudhāraṇi; Tib. གསང་སྔགས་ཆེན་པོ་རྗེས་སུ་འཛིན་པ།, Wyl. gsang sngags chen po rjes su 'dzin pa) is found in the Kriyātantra section of the Tibetan Kangyur (Toh. 563).

This tantra is one of five texts that together constitute the Pañcarakṣā scriptural collection, popular for centuries as an important facet of Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhism’s traditional approach to personal and communal misfortunes of all kinds. It addresses a range of human ailments, as well as misfortunes such as robbery, natural disaster, and criminal punishment, thought to be brought on especially through the animosity of non-human spirit entities.

English Translation

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