[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) › [Ṣaṇmukhī dhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani) › [འཕགས་པ་སྒོ་དྲུག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo) › [The Dharani of the Six Gates](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000) › intro.4 # འཕགས་པ་སྒ་དྲག་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4 The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates intro.4 - **Language:** English ### [intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.4) There are four known Tibetan commentaries on the Ṣaṇmukhī­dhāraṇī composed by the renowned scholars Butön Rinchen Drup (1290–1364), Jonang Tāranātha (1575–1634), the seventh Dalai Lama (1708–57), and the Geluk scholar Ngülchu Dharmabhadra (1772–1851). The Phangthangma, one of the imperial catalogs of translated works, also mentions two sādhanas related to the Ṣaṇmukhī­dhāraṇī, which we could not locate. There are available, however, some relatively modern recitation texts related to this dhāraṇī composed by Ngawang Khedrup (1779–1838) and Losang Tsültrim Gyatso (1845–1915). - [Previous: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.3) - [Next: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.5) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.4) · Pramāṇa