[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) › [Buddhahṛdayadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855) › [The Dharani of the Buddha’s Essence](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000) › intro.4 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4 The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence intro.4 - **Language:** English ### [intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.intro.4) The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence does not appear in the Kangyurs of mainly Thempangma lineage, but it is present in the predominantly Tshalpa Kangyurs and in a number of mixed, Bhutanese, and Mongolian Kangyurs, and is mentioned in the catalog of the old Mustang Kangyur.³ Butön recorded the mantra from this text in his Collection of Dhāraṇī of the Four Classes of Secret Mantra (gsang sngags rgyud sde bzhi’i gzungs ’bum).⁴ - [Previous: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.intro.3) - [Next: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.intro.5) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.intro.4) · Pramāṇa