[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 goddesses](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess) › [Mārīcīdhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani) › [འཕགས་མ་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo) › [The Marici Dharani](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000) › intro.3 # འཕགས་མ་འད་ཟར་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.3 The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī intro.3 - **Language:** English ### [intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.3) The colophon to this version of The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī indicates that the text was translated into Tibetan in the eleventh century by the Indian paṇḍita Amoghavajra and the Tibetan translator Bari Rinchen Drakpa (1040–1112). However, the Denkarma¹ royal Tibetan catalog of translated works also contains a dhāraṇī titled simply Noble Mārīcī (Skt. Āryamārīcī; Tib. ’phags pa ’od zer can), which suggests that some version of The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī was translated into Tibetan at some time before the early ninth century. In the Phangthangma² royal Tibetan catalog of translated works we also find the text listed under its full title, The Noble Dhāraṇī of Mārīcī (Skt. Ārya­mārīcī­nāmadhāraṇī; Tib. ’phags pa ’od zer can gyi gzungs). One witness of The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī survives among the Dunhuang manuscript collection, which supports the existence of some version of the text either during the Imperial period or shortly after the end of the Tibetan Empire.³ It is likely, however, that this early translation of The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī belonged to a different textual tradition than The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī translated in the eleventh century by Amoghavajra and Bari Rinchen Drakpa.⁴ - [Previous: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.2) - [Next: intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.4) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.3) · Pramāṇa