[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Other dhāraṇīs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other) › [Dhāraṇīs for Offerings and Homage](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja) › [Pūjameghadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani) › [མཆོད་པའི་སྤྲིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo) › [The Dharani “Cloud of Offerings”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000) › notes # མཆད་པའ་སྤྲན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes: Notes The Dhāraṇī “Cloud of Offerings” notes - **Language:** English ### Notes ### [notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.1) 1. Denkarma, folio 303.a; Herrmann-Pfandt, p. 237; Phangthangma 2003, p. 30. ### [notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.2) 2. According to Dalton and van Schaik’s catalog, the dhāraṇī texts called The Dhāraṇī “Cloud of Offerings” found at Dunhuang include IOL Tib J 140/2; IOL Tib J 141/2; IOL Tib J 366/2; IOL Tib J 369/2; PT 23/2; PT 24/2; PT 27/2; PT 70/2; PT 78; PT 310/1; PT 311; and PT 427. See Dalton and van Schaik 2006. Most of these works include essentially the same dhāraṇī that is found here in Toh 538 (with minor variants), appearing sometimes with and sometimes without an additional prayer that is not found in Toh 538. However, several of the works contain an entirely different dhāraṇī than the one found here, but which is nonetheless concerned with a pūjāmegha (“a cloud of offerings”). ### [notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.3) 3. Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud ’bum, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhi­maṇḍasyālaṃkāra­lakṣa­dhāraṇī (Toh 508, byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer. In the Toh 538 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in of the Toh 538 version of this text. ### [notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.4) 4. This text, Toh 1068, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs ’dus, waM), are listed as being located in volume 101 of the Degé Kangyur by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). However, several other Kangyur databases—including the eKangyur that supplies the digital input version displayed by the 84000 Reading Room—list this work as being located in volume 102. This discrepancy is partly due to the fact that the two volumes of the gzungs ’dus section are an added supplement not mentioned in the original catalog, and also hinges on the fact that the compilers of the Tōhoku catalog placed another text—which forms a whole, very large volume—the Vimala­prabhā­nāma­kālacakra­tantra­ṭīkā (dus ’khor ’grel bshad dri med ’od, Toh 845), before the volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur, numbering it as vol. 100, although it is almost certainly intended to come right at the end of the Degé Kangyur texts as volume 102; indeed its final fifth chapter is often carried over and wrapped in the same volume as the Kangyur dkar chags (catalog). Please note this discrepancy when using the eKangyur viewer in this translation. Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 1068 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 1068, , for details. ### [notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.5) 5. lhab lhub. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puja.pujameghadharani*bo~en-84000.notes) · Pramāṇa