[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) › [Buddhist tantras and tantric exegesis](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra) › [Action tantras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya) › [General Rites and Tantras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general) › [Dhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani) › [Caityadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani) › [ཤེས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པར་གྲུབ་པའི་མཆོད་རྟེན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884) › [The Dharani for a Caitya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884~en-84000) › intro.1 # ཤས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཐར་ཕྱན་པར་གྲབ་པའ་མཆད་རྟན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.1 The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya intro.1 - **Language:** English ### [intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884~en-84000.intro.1) The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya is a short manual on the ritual preparation for and casting of small caityas from clay. The ritual has three main parts: a description of the general transformative power of the dhāraṇī, the preparation rituals for the ground and clay, and rituals for the consecration of the cast images. The main dhāraṇī, with the name vimaloṣṇīṣa, “stainless uṣṇīṣa,” was widely used in central and northeast Asian Buddhism, especially in the context of purification, consecration, and inauguration rituals. - [Next: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884~en-84000.intro.2) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884~en-84000.intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.general.dharani.caityadharani*bo-d884~en-84000.intro.1) · Pramāṇa