[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 Purification](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification) › [Āvaraṇaviṣkambhidhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891) › [འཕགས་པ་སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo) › [The Dharani of Avaranavishkambhin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000) › notes.1 # འཕགས་པ་སྒྲབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སལ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.1 The Dhāraṇī of Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin notes.1 - **Language:** English ### [notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000.notes.1) 1. The name of this bodhisattva when he figures in this group of eight is usually given in the surviving Sanskrit literature as Sarvanivaraṇaviṣkambhin, though we do see Sarvāvaraṇaviṣkambhin attested in at least one Indic source. Nivaraṇa and āvaraṇa both mean “obscuration,” and when the bodhisattva’s name is translated into Tibetan, in both cases it is rendered as sgrib pa (thams cad) rnam (par) sel (ba). Here, both the Sanskrit title given in our text and the dhāraṇī render the name as Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin. - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000.2) - [Next: notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000.notes.2) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000.notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.avaranaviskambhidharani-d891*bo~en-84000.notes.1) · Pramāṇa