འཕགས་པ་ངན་འགྲ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡངས་ས་སྦྱང་བ་གཙག་ཏར་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.8

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This work is one among a group of texts found clustered together in the Kriyātantra section of the Tibetan Kangyurs that contain the uṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇī and its related rituals. Unlike the other texts in this group, the title of the present work does not explicitly refer to the rituals connected with the dhāraṇī, though it does in fact include a few of the same ritual instructions found in the remaining four texts in the group.¹ The group of four more specifically ritual texts all share a similar narrative opening (nidāna) that differs from the introductory narrative in the present text. The dhāraṇī itself and several further passages, however, are shared between the present text and other works in this group. For example, after the supporting narrative for the Buddha’s recitation of the uṣṇīṣavijayā dhāraṇī, the dhāraṇī itself and nearly all the material that follows it can be found in various sections of Toh 594.