འཕགས་པ་ཡ་ཤས་ཏ་ལ་ལ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས་འགྲ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡངས་ས་སྦྱང་བ 2

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-raṇī-sarvagati-pariśodhanī. In the language of Tibet: 'phags pa ye shes ta la la zhes bya ba'i gzungs 'gro ba thams cad yongs su sbyong ba (The Noble Dhāraṇī Called "The Torch of Wisdom" that Purifies All Destinies). Homage to the Omniscient One! Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas! Homage to the Blessed One, the Tathāgata Jñānolka! Homage to the Tathāgata Suvarṇaprabhāsa-kūṭa-prabhāsa! Homage to the Tathāgata Satyavādin! Homage to the Tathāgata Bhairavaghoṣarāja! Then, the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrīkumārabhūta, the Bodhisattva Dhāraṇīśvararāja, and the Bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi—these four bodhisattvas and those tathāgatas were dwelling in the mansions of the moon and the sun. Then, the two devaputras, the Moon and the Sun, went to where those tathāgatas were dwelling and to where those bodhisattvas were. Having gone there, they saw the tathāgatas seated upon jeweled lion thrones, and they also saw those bodhisattvas seated within pavilions crowned with victory banners of rose-apple. Then the two devaputras, the Moon and the Sun, thought to each other: "How might we receive from these tathāgatas and these bodhisattvas the dhāraṇī-mantra that has risen to bestow light on all sentient beings and dispel darkness and obscurity, called 'Endowed with the Mind Pervading the Ten Directions', by whose power we may illuminate all sentient beings?" Then, those tathāgatas and those bodhisattvas knew in their minds the thoughts of those devaputras, the Moon and the Sun. At that time, those tathāgatas,