དཔལ་གྱ་ལྷ་མའ་མཚན་བཅ་གཉས་པ intro.2
The Twelve Names of the Goddess Śrī intro.2
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The Twelve Names of the Goddess Śrī is a short text 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 extremely long (for example, Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī).¹ An alternative version of this text is The Sūtra of Mahāśrī,² from which it differs in only minor details.