ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ་གཉས་པའ་གཟངས intro.6

intro.6

The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī is also found among the Dunhuang manuscripts. There exists one fragment¹⁵ and two complete manuscripts with colophons.¹⁶ The two complete manuscripts are almost identical to the canonical Two Stanza Dhāraṇī, yet they omit the dhāraṇī and have a different title: The Presentation of The Two Stanzas together with Their Benefits.¹⁷ Though none of the versions in the Kangyur include a translator’s colophon, both complete Dunhuang manuscripts state that Paltsek Rakṣita was the translator and editor. If this attribution is correct, The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī must have been translated at some point in the late eighth or early ninth century when Paltsek Rakṣita was active as a translator.