Notes

n.1This is the title given at the beginning of the text in all versions of the Kangyur consulted. The colophon, however, titles it The Dhāraṇī of Mañjuśrī's Single Syllable (’jam dpal gyi yi ge ’bru gcig pa'i gzungs).

n.2Chapter 9 of The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī is dedicated to a similarly potent single-syllable mantra of Mañjuśrī. In that text, which is extant in Sanskrit, the single-syllable mantra is kḷlhīṁ.

n.3The Denkarma catalog is usually dated to ca. 812 ᴄᴇ

n.4Butön Rinchen Drup, chos ’byung, folio 172.a/p. 975.

n.5Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 896 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 896, n.­5, for details.

n.6Provisional translation: “It is: oṃ kṣṇīṁ.”

n.7“mu rang salt,” for unfamiliar mu rang tshwa. This may be a transliteration of the Sanskrit muraṅgī and thus refer to the refined products of Moringa oleifera, which have both culinary and medicinal applications.