མཆད་པའ་སྤྲན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4

intro.4

Indeed, at Dunhuang we find a number of manuscripts that include texts entitled The Dhāraṇī “Cloud of Offerings”, yet none of them is an exact match for the recension in the Kangyurs. Some of the recensions at Dunhuang include just a dhāraṇī, which is essentially the same as the one found in the Kangyur recensions, with minor variants; others include this same dhāraṇī with an additional prayer, rather than the rite described in The Dhāraṇī “Cloud of Offerings” as it appears in the Kangyurs; still another group include an entirely different dhāraṇī that nonetheless bears the same name.²