Fó shuō Zhāntánxiāngshēn tuóluóní jīng 佛說栴檀香身陀羅尼經
Sūtra of the Candanāṅga-dhāraṇī (Sandalwood-Bodied)
by 法賢 (譯)
About the work
A short single-juan dhāraṇī-sūtra translated at the Sòng 譯經院 by 法賢 Fǎxián. Zhāntánxiāngshēn 栴檀香身 = Skt. Candana-aṅga / Candana-gandha-aṅga (“Sandal-fragrant-bodied”) — a Buddha-epithet, attested as a dhāraṇī-name in the related Maitreya-pratijñā / Candanāṅga cluster catalogued in CANWWW under T1407.
Abstract
The Buddha addresses Ānanda: there is a dhāraṇī called Zhāntán-xiāngshēn of great power, conferring vast accumulated merit on its reciter and extinguishing extreme prior karmic obstructions, securing supreme rewards in the future. The text further specifies a darśana-rite for those who would behold Avalokiteśvara: in a place of purity, on an auspicious day, the practitioner is to recite the spell to perfection, then perform the visualisation. The work belongs to the Sòng-Institute praṇidhāna / darśana class — short vidyā texts whose function is to enable the practitioner to behold a particular bodhisattva. Recorded in the Dàzhōngxiángfú fǎbǎo lù; Nanjio N0887.
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