འཕགས་མ་འད་ཟར་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4

intro.4

The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī is included in the Tantra Collection (rgyud ’bum) and the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs (gzungs ’dus) sections of the Degé Kangyur. There are also thirty-seven sādhanas for the goddess Mārīcī in the Tengyur, seven of which were, like this text, translated by Amoghavajra and Bari Rinchen Drakpa. The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī itself, along with ritual manuals, sādhana practices, and even terma related to the goddess, has appeared in the collected works of numerous Tibetan authors since at least the thirteenth century, and Mārīcī has remained an important deity in Tibetan Buddhist traditions to this day.