[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) › [Sarvatathāgatoṣṇīṣasitātapatrā Aparājitā Mahāpratyaṅgirā Vidyārājñī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra) › [འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ཏོར་ནས་བྱུང་བ་གདུགས་དཀར་པོ་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་མ་ཕྱིར་ཟློག་པའི་རིག་སྔགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མོ་ཆེན་མོའོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo) › [Sitatapatra Born from the Ushnisha of All Tathagatas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000) › intro.7 # འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་གཙག་ཏར་ནས་བྱང་བ་གདགས་དཀར་པ་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱས་མ་ཐབ་མ་ཕྱར་ཟླག་པའ་རག་སྔགས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མ་ཆན་མའ intro.7 Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of All Tathāgatas intro.7 - **Language:** English ### [intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) The dangers Sitātapatrā can capably avert are enumerated in great detail and include a litany of physical illness and mental disorders, a vast demonology of supernatural forces that cause illness and distress, threats from kings, poisons, and animals, and even a detailed list of rival magical traditions whose spells pose a potential threat. Given this exhaustive treatment of the benefits of the spell, it is noteworthy that the path to liberation and the attainment of buddhahood are never mentioned. While it can be implicitly understood that averting disease, calamity, and supernatural dangers are requisites for the pursuit of awakening, spiritual goals are clearly subordinated in these texts to the goal of alleviating the worldly anxieties shared by all beings, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike. - [Previous: intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.6) - [Next: intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) · Pramāṇa