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We can be reasonably confident that Śākyamuni is the primary speaker because, as detailed below, he is explicitly identified in the longer text of the same title from which this dhāraṇī text was extracted. ### [notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.2) 2. Toh 508 identifies this dhāraṇī or root mantra as “the dhāraṇī called one hundred thousand ornaments of the essence of awakening, the king of ritual manuals” (rtog pa’i rgyal po byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum zhes bya ba’i gzungs). ### [notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.3) 3. The Stem Array (translated 2021). ### [notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.4) 4. Butön, rgyud ’bum gyi dkar chag, 382. Khedrub Jé also makes reference to an earlier translation that was no longer extant in Tibet in the fifteenth century (Schopen 2005, pp. 318–19). ### [notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.5) 5. Toh 508, folio 28.b. On Gönpo Kyab, see his entry (under the name Gonbujab) at The Treasury of Lives, published July 2020. The Chinese version used by Gönpo Kyab for his Tibetan translation has the title puti chang zhuangyan tuoluoni jing (菩提場莊嚴陀羅尼經, Taishō 1008) and was translated by Amoghavajra in the third quarter of the eighth century. ### [notes.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.6) 6. See Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, p. 190. The Denkarma lists a text called ’phags pa byang chub snying po rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs, as being 250 ślokas in length. The other extant imperial-era catalog, the Phangthangma, also lists a text with a similar title: byang chub kyi snying po ’bum gyi rgyan cho ga dang bcas pa as being 200 ślokas in length. ### [notes.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.7) 7. Pelliot tibétain 555. Neither the Phukdrak nor the Dunhuang version were consulted for this translation. ### [notes.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.8) 8. See Ghosh 1941, pp. 170–74, and Schopen 2005, p. 315. As Ghosh notes, the original location of the inscription is unknown. ### [notes.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.9) 9. The other four dhāraṇīs in the set are The Uṣṇīṣavijāyā Dhāraṇī , The Dhāraṇī of Vimaloṣṇīṣa , The Dhāraṇī for Secret Relics , and the “essence of dependent arising” (rten ’brel snying po) the frequently cited formula that begins oṁ ye dharma… ### [notes.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.10) 10. Schopen 2005, pp. 322–26. ### [notes.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.11) 11. This text, Toh 920, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs, e), are listed as being located in volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). However, several other Kangyur databases—including the eKangyur that supplies the digital input version displayed by the 84000 Reading Room—list this work as being located in volume 101. This discrepancy is partly due to the fact that the two volumes of the gzungs ’dus section are an added supplement not mentioned in the original catalog, and also hinges on the fact that the compilers of the Tōhoku catalog placed another text—which forms a whole, very large volume—the Vimala­prabhā­nāma­kālacakra­tantra­ṭīkā (dus ’khor ’grel bshad dri med ’od, Toh 845), before the volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur, numbering it as vol. 100, although it is almost certainly intended to come right at the end of the Degé Kangyur texts as volume 102; indeed its final fifth chapter is often carried over and wrapped in the same volume as the Kangyur dkar chags (catalog). Please note this discrepancy when using the eKangyur viewer in this translation. Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 920 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 920, , for details. ### [notes.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.12) 12. Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud ’bum, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhi­maṇḍasyālaṃkāra­lakṣa­dhāraṇī (byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs, Toh 508), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer. In the Toh 509 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in of the Toh 509 version of this text. ### [notes.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.13) 13. Toh 509 rtsa ba’i sngags; Toh 920 mU la ma+ntraM. ### [notes.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.14) 14. Toh 509 snying po; Toh 920 hri da yaM. ### [notes.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.15) 15. This could be translated as “ oṁ, beheld by all tathāgatas, victory, victory, svāhā .” ### [notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.16) 16. Toh 509 nye ba’i snying; Toh 920 u pa hri da yaM. ### [notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.17) 17. This could be translated as, “ oṁ, hulu hulu, Face of Victory, svāhā .” ### [notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.18) 18. This could be translated as “ oṁ, adamantine life, svāhā .” ### [notes.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.19) 19. The remainder of this text is found verbatim in Toh 508. ### [notes.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bodhigarbhalankaralaksadharani*bo~en-84000.notes.20) 20. This translation follows the Lhasa, Narthang, and Stok Kangyurs in reading ’di la nyan. 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