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འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.2

One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī intro.2

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One Hundred and Eight Names of Mañjuśrī belongs to a class of texts praising a select deity through a series of one hundred and eight names, or epithets, each conveying a distinctive feature of the deity’s appearance, realization, or activity as supreme teacher. This class is also closely related to a number of texts, each likewise focused on a specific deity, that combine dhāraṇī with a praise of one hundred and eight names.¹