འཕགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་མ་འཇགས་པ་རབ་ཏ་སྦྱན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4

intro.4

The Dhāraṇī That Fully Confers Freedom From All Dangers shares a great deal of intertextuality with The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [1] (Toh 761)² and, to a lesser degree, with Toh 762,³ also titled The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [2]. 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 The Dhāraṇī That Fully Confers Freedom From All Dangers and Toh 761 are, in most places, nearly identical, they are entirely different from the much shorter formulas found in Toh 762. One notably absent feature from The Dhāraṇī That Fully Confers Freedom From All Dangers but found in Toh 761 and Toh 762 is the emphasis on the dhāraṇī’s efficacy for weather control rituals aimed at favorable agriculture. 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.