Toh 533 notes.2

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2. Meisezahl 1957, p. 100. The Śākyamuni dhāraṇī is found in a small tightly rolled cylinder (inventory number 71 554) of five white, printed paper strips that was wrapped with colored thread and possibly used to put in an amulet or a statue. On the first leaf is written bya rgyud kyi sde las (“From the Kriyā­tantra­piṭaka”) and “the general heart mantra” (spyi’i snying po) of Śākyamuni. Leaf number two contains the bcom ldan ’das śākya thub pa’i snying po “the heart mantra of the Bhagavat Śākyamuni.” The remaining leaves bear two more dhāraṇīs associated with Śākyamuni and the dhāraṇīs of Amitābha, Akṣobhya, and Bhaiṣajyaguru.