[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) › [Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya) › [འཕགས་པ་ངན་འགྲོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོངས་སུ་སྦྱོང་བ་གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984) › [The Ushnishavijaya Dharani](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000) › notes.16 # འཕགས་པ་ངན་འགྲ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡངས་ས་སྦྱང་བ་གཙག་ཏར་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.16 The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī notes.16 - **Language:** English ### [notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000.notes.16) 16. These Southeast Asian texts are not included in the official Pali Canon of the Theravāda tradition and are unknown in Sri Lanka. In mainland Southeast Asia, however, they are popular in rituals for extending life and in funeral rites. Whether they reflect the diffusion of texts and practices directly from India prior to the relatively recent evolution of Theravāda orthodoxy, or were transmitted via Chinese along with Chinese migrations and cultural influence in the region, remains an open question. For a detailed study of these texts and their possible origins, see Cicuzza (ed.) 2018. - [Previous: notes.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000.notes.15) - [Next: notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000.notes.17) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000.notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.usnisavijaya*bo-d984~en-84000.notes.16) · Pramāṇa