Mahapratisara-Mahavidyarajni the Great Amulet Great Queen of Spells: Introduction Critical Editions and Annotated Translation
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Sata-Pitaka Series
Book: 636Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9788177421149
Length
289p., Bibliography; Index; 29cm.
Subjects
This volume provides the first critical edition and complete Western translation of an influential apotropaic scripture of Mahayana Vajrayana Buddhism, The Great Amulet, Great Queen of Spells (Mahapratisara-Mahavidyarajni). This piece of the dharani literature from around the middle of the first millennium became a member of the popular Pancaraksa collection and has remained in use in Nepal up to the present time.
After an introduction, editions of the five ...