འཕགས་པ་རག་པའ་རྒྱལ་མ་ས་སར་འབྲང་བ་ཆན་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང intro.2

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The Noble Queen of Incantations: The Great Amulet is the third scripture in a series of five works that are widely popular in the Buddhist world for their power to bring about practical and liberative benefit. In addition to The Great Amulet, the other four texts are Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm (Mahā­sāhasrapramardanī­sūtra, Toh 558),¹ The Great Peahen (Mahāmāyūrīvidyārājñī, Toh 559),² The Sūtra of the Great Cool Grove (Mahā­śītavatī­sūtra, Toh 562),³ and Great Upholder of the Secret Mantra (Mahā­mantrānusāriṇī­sūtra, Toh 563).⁴ Together these scriptures have been apotheosized in the Mahāyāna tradition as five goddesses known collectively as the Pañcarakṣā, or the Five Protectresses. In the Tibetan tradition this collection is known as the gzungs chen grwa lnga, the Five Great Dhāraṇīs.