Notes

n.1Denkarma, folio 303.a; Herrmann-Pfandt, p. 237; Phangthangma 2003, p. 30.

n.2According to Dalton and van Schaik’s catalog, the dhāraṇī texts called The Dhāraṇī “Cloud of Offerings” found at Dunhuang include IOL Tib J 140/2; IOL Tib J 141/2; IOL Tib J 366/2; IOL Tib J 369/2; PT 23/2; PT 24/2; PT 27/2; PT 70/2; PT 78; PT 310/1; PT 311; and PT 427. See Dalton and van Schaik 2006. Most of these works include essentially the same dhāraṇī that is found here in Toh 538 (with minor variants), appearing sometimes with and sometimes without an additional prayer that is not found in Toh 538. However, several of the works contain an entirely different dhāraṇī than the one found here, but which is nonetheless concerned with a pūjāmegha (“a cloud of offerings”).

n.3Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud ’bum, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhi­maṇḍasyālaṃkāra­lakṣa­dhāraṇī (Toh 508, byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer.

n.4Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 1068 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 1068, n.­4, for details.

n.5lhab lhub.