འཕགས་པ་ཡན་ཏན་བསྔགས་པ་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4

intro.4

This brief scripture is missing from some Kangyur collections but appears twice in others.⁵ Its title does not appear in any of the Kangyur collections that belong purely to the Thempangma (them spangs ma) lineage. However, the Kangyur collections that belong to the Tshalpa (tshal pa) lineage include it twice, while the mixed lineage and independent collections include it either twice or only once. In the Degé Kangyur it appears in both the Tantra Collection (rgyud ’bum, Toh 679) and the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs (gzungs ’dus, Toh 851).⁶ The dhāraṇī mantra featured in the text is also included in Butön Rinchen Drup’s (bu ston rin chen grub, 1290–1364) Collection of Dhāraṇī of the Four Classes of Secret Mantra.⁷