[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Aparimitāyurjñānahṛdayadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh) › [འཕགས་པ་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850) › [The Dharani “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000) › intro.6 # འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.6 The Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom” intro.6 - **Language:** English ### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.6) The Tibetan translation that survives to this day in the Kangyur dates to the eleventh century ce, but the text must have been in circulation in India considerably earlier, since a Chinese translation (Taishō 370) had been completed by an unknown translator during the Liang dynasty in the early half of the sixth century.⁴ The Tibetan translation was made by the Indian preceptor Puṇya­sambhava and the Tibetan Lotsāwa Patsap Nyima Drak (b. 1055). Almost nothing is known of Puṇya­sambhava, while Patsap Lotsāwa was responsible not only for bringing to Tibet the philosophical works for which he is best known, but also for introducing new lineages of a few tantric practices from Kashmir, where he studied for twenty-three years. - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.7) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.intro.6) · Pramāṇa