འཕགས་པ་རྡ་རྗའ་སྙང་པའ་གཟངས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.3
The Dhāraṇī of the Vajra Quintessence intro.3
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The basic meaning of the Sanskrit dhāraṇa is to “hold,” “uphold,” or “maintain,” and by extension the term is frequently used in reference to memory and learning. In the context of the present work, the terms dhāraṇī or dhāraṇī gates (dhāraṇīmukha) refer at once to teachings that are retained, the avenues for putting them into practice, and the spiritual realizations that are thereby attained in a manner parallel to the way meditative absorption (samādhi) or samādhi gates (samādhimukha) are presented in many other Mahāyāna sūtras.