འཕགས་པ་ངན་འགྲ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡངས་ས་སྦྱང་བ་གཙག་ཏར་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.3

intro.3

When Śakra tells the Buddha of the god Supratiṣṭhita’s impending death and rebirth, light rays emerge from the Buddha’s uṣṇīṣa, illuminating all the worldly realms before returning to his mouth. The Buddha then explains the qualities of the uṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇī, which include destroying the obscurations, purifying lower rebirths, attaining rebirth as a god, attaining a long life, and attaining rebirth in buddha fields, divine abodes, and the abodes of bodhisattvas. The Buddha bestows the dhāraṇī and again enumerates its benefits. He then requests Śakra to proclaim the dhāraṇī to Supratiṣṭhita so that Supratiṣṭhita will avoid unfortunate future rebirths and be born into the bodhisattva lineage. The Buddha adds that Supratiṣṭhita should contemplate, meditate upon, and recall the dhāraṇī in order to benefit beings in the god realms and all the beings in Jambudvīpa.