འཕགས་པ་ལྕགས་མཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4
The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [1]; The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [1] intro.4
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The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [1] shares an identical title with another translation in the Degé Kangyur, Toh 762,² which immediately follows it. These two texts furthermore share a great deal of intertextuality with The Dhāraṇī That Fully Confers Freedom From Dangers (Toh 609/925).³ These three works share an identical narrative structure, are set in Indra’s Rock Cave, and feature Śakra as their interlocutor. While the dhāraṇī formulas in Toh 761 and Toh 609/925 are, in most places, nearly in agreement, the much shorter formulas found in Toh 762 are altogether different. Many sections of the dhāraṇī formula were challenging to comprehend. We did not attempt to venture any conjectural emendations and, instead, presented it largely as it appears in the Tibetan.