འཕགས་མ་སྒྲལ་མ་རང་གས་དམ་བཅས་བ་ཅས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.5

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This work is cataloged in the Degé Kangyur⁶ as part of a cycle of eight Kriyātantra (bya rgyud) texts (Toh 724–731) dedicated to the goddess Tārā. The dhāraṇī recorded here is also preserved in Butön Rinchen Drup’s (bu ston rin chen grub, 1290–1364) Dhāraṇī Collection (gzungs bsdus) from his Collected Works (gsung ’bum),⁷ and is found in a short Sanskrit ritual manual collected in the Sādhanamālā and preserved in Tibetan translation as The Instructions on the Ritual of Blessed Āryatārā from the Essence of Amitābha Tantra (Amitābhagarbhatantre bhagavatyārya­tārāyāḥ kalpoddeśaḥ, Toh 3501). ⁸ The colophon to the Tibetan translation states that this dhāraṇī is an extract from The Supreme Vajra Tantra (rdo rje mchog gi brgyud), while the colophon to Toh 3501 and the Sanskrit witness in the Sādhanamālā state that it comes from the Amitābhagarbha­tantra.⁹ There are, however, no extant texts with either of these titles.