[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-d974) › [Auspicious Night](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000) › intro.6 # འཕགས་པ་མཚན་མ་བཟང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.6 Auspicious Night intro.6 - **Language:** English ### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.6) Auspicious Night is one among a long list of Indian Buddhist sūtras that are only fully accessible in their Tibetan translations because the Indic originals are lost or extant only as fragments. Several differing recensions of Auspicious Night have been preserved or have partly survived in Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan. The extant texts can be broadly grouped into two versions: an earlier version represented by the Pali texts and the earlier Chinese translations, and a later version represented by the Sanskrit texts, the Tibetan translation, and one of the Chinese translations (Taishō 1362). At the core of all these texts are a set of four to five stanzas that elucidate the sūtra’s main teaching on avoiding attachment, anxiety, and preoccupation with thoughts of the past, future, and present. The stanzas are framed uniquely in the different versions of the sūtra, and these differences help us understand the evolution of this teaching and the history of the texts that articulate it. - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.7) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.6) · Pramāṇa