[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) › [Protective and healing dhāraṇīs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection) › [Healing and Disease Pacification](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease) › [Bhadrakarātrī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri) › [འཕགས་པ་མཚན་མོ་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617) › [Auspicious Night](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000) › notes.2 # འཕགས་པ་མཚན་མ་བཟང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.2 Auspicious Night notes.2 - **Language:** English ### [notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000.notes.2) 2. However, the Denkarma (ldan dkar ma) catalog of the early phase of translation in Tibet (up to the ninth century) classifies Auspicious Night—“mistakenly,” according to Skilling, “since it is a Śrāvaka text” (Skilling 1997, 82)—as a sūtra of the Mahāyāna (see Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, 120–21). For more details on the problems of the classification and formation, nature, and later citations of Auspicious Night, see Skilling 1997, 81–84. - [Previous: notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000.notes.1) - [Next: notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000.notes.3) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000.notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d617~en-84000.notes.2) · Pramāṇa