[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) › notes.9 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.9 The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence notes.9 - **Language:** English ### [notes.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.notes.9) 9. Tibetan: thos pa rgya mtsho thams cad kyi gzungs. The term gzungs/dhāraṇī is translated here as “the power of retaining” instead of being left in the Sanskrit. In this case it refers to a specific power that bodhisattvas gain, not a dhāraṇī in the sense of a set of verses that are recited as a means to attain some form of benefit. - [Previous: notes.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.notes.8) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.notes.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.buddhahrdayadharani-d515*bo-d855~en-84000.notes.9) · Pramāṇa