[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) › [Dhāraṇīs of buddhas and uṣṇīṣas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha) › [Aparimitaguṇānuśāṁsadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani) › [འཕགས་པ་ཡོན་ཏན་བསྔགས་པ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo) › [The Dharani Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000) › intro.2 # འཕགས་པ་ཡན་ཏན་བསྔགས་པ་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.2 The Dhāraṇī Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One intro.2 - **Language:** English ### [intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000.intro.2) The Dhāraṇī Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One consists of a short dhāraṇī praising Buddha Amitābha and a brief description of the benefits one accrues by reciting this dhāraṇī. These benefits range from the purification of negative deeds to having visions of the bodhisattva Maitreya, the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, and the buddha Amitābha himself. The Sanskrit term for the English “immeasurable” (aparimita) that appears in the title of this work can be interpreted as referring both to the Buddha Amitābha as “The Immeasurable One” and to the fact that the qualities that Amitābha possesses are themselves “immeasurable.” The phrase “The Immeasurable One” is used here to give coherence to the title in English, but the reader is invited to entertain the dual significance of the term when reading or reciting the text—that Amitābha is both immeasurably vast and possesses immeasurable qualities.¹ - [Previous: intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000.intro.1) - [Next: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000.intro.3) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000.intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.aparimitagunanusamsadharani*bo~en-84000.intro.2) · Pramāṇa