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, considered to be the Dharmakāya relics (Tib. chos kyi sku’i ring bsrel) of a Stupa.

  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.
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