འཕགས་པ་དཔལ་ཆན་མའ་མད intro.2

intro.2

The Sūtra of Mahāśrī is a short sūtra revealed to Avalokiteśvara in the pure land of Sukhāvatī. In essence, it is a dhāraṇī centered on twelve epithets of the goddess of wealth and a short ritual instruction concerning its recitation. Lists of the epithets of a deity are a common type of dhāraṇī, and such texts can sometimes be very long (for example, Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī).¹ This text can be said to be an alternative version of The Twelve Names of the Goddess Śrī,² from which it differs in only minor details. One significant difference, however, is that in that text the ritual instruction is not provided.