Notes

n.1Compiled probably during the second or third century ᴄᴇ and extant in Chinese: Mahāvibhāṣā (Apidamo da piposha lun 阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論 ), Taishō 1545, 27.890b25–26.

n.2Saṅghabhadra’s Abhi­dharma­kośaśāstra­kārikā­bhāṣya (Toh 4091), Yaśomitra’s Abhi­dharmakośa­ṭīkā (Toh 4092), Pūrṇavardhana’s Abhi­dharmakośa­ṭīkā­lakṣaṇānusāriṇī­nāma (Toh 4093), and Sthiramati’s Abhi­dharmakośa­bhāṣya­ṭīkā­tattvārtha­nāma (Toh 4421). For parallels in the Chinese canon see Kano 2011, p. 85, n. 52.

n.3The Ekagāthābhāṣya (Toh 3988) is also included in Vasubandhu’s Gāthāsaṃgraha­śāstrārtha­nāma (Toh 4103).

n.4Ekagāthāṭīkā (Peking Kangyur 2063, missing in Degé).

n.5Kano concludes this by studying the sūtras listed in Ratnākaraśānti’s Muktāvalī (Toh 1189), Kāṇha’s Yogaratnamālā (Toh 1183), and Advayavajra’s Kudṛṣṭi­nirghātana, as well as by analyzing the structure of the Tibetan canonical collections, the Nepali collections of dhāraṇīs, and several Tibetan commentaries.

n.6Ṣaṇmukhī­dhāraṇī , Toh 141, 526, 916.

n.7Gāthādvaya­dhāraṇī , Toh 143, 611, 918.

n.8Caturgāthā , Toh 324.

n.9Bhadracaryā­praṇidhāna , Toh 1095, 4377.

n.10Cambridge manuscript Add.1680.8 (fragmentary, in palm leaf, ca. twelfth/thirteenth century). See Hidas 2021, p. 32.

n.11His sources are four manuscripts from Nepal, three on paper (one from 1792), and one palm leaf manuscript: Matsunami no. 419 (A.D.1792 = samvat 912), no. 202 (date unknown), NGMPP A131/9, and Asiatic Society of Bengal no. 9987. See Kano 2011, pp. 61–65.

n.12Denkarma, folio 309.a. See also Herrmann-Pfandt, pp. 370–71; Yoshimura 1950, p. 67, no. 659; and Phangthangma 2003, p. 45.

n.13The Egoo, Stagrimo, Stongde, Bardan, and Reruk collections.

n.14The Single Stanza is not listed in the imperial catalogs as an independent text, but it is included in Butön’s History of Buddhism. See Butön Rinchen Drup (bu ston rin chen grub), folio 161.b.

n.15The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates (Toh 141, 526, 916), The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī (Toh 143, 611, 918), and The Four Stanzas (Toh 324). See Jonang Jetsün Tāranātha (jo nang rje btsun tA ra nA tha), pp. 709–54.

n.16In the Phukdrak Kangyur and the Bardan, Stagrimo, and Stongde collections, The Single Stanza, The Four Stanzas, and The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī also appear in sequence. In the Bardan collection, The Prayer for Good Action comes before The Single Stanza, so that the four texts are grouped together.

n.17Kano’s Sanskrit edition (2011): oṃ namo buddhāya. “Oṃ! Homage to the Buddha!”