Toh 942 intro.3
The Dhāraṇī to Uphold “The King of Samādhis Sūtra” intro.3
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Such short texts served a variety of purposes, the primary being that by reciting them one could acquire the positive karmic benefits of reciting an entire, sometimes extremely long, text. On a practical level, the recitation of these short texts also served as equivalent to the recitation of the parent text, should a prescribed ritual so require.