Toh 592Tantra
The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Invincible Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of the Tathāgata”
འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གཙུག་ཏོར་ནས་བྱུང་བའི་གདུགས་དཀར་པོ་ཅན་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས།
Āryatathāgatoṣṇīṣasitātapatre aparājitānāmadhāraṇī
佛說大白傘蓋總持陀羅尼經
’phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa’i gtsug tor nas byung ba’i gdugs dkar po can gzhan gyis mi thub pa zhes bya ba’i gzungs
Translator: Translated by Samye Translationsunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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Summary
This text presents a dhāraṇī featuring the female deity Sitātapatrā (White Umbrella Goddess) that provides a magical means to avert a litany of dangers, illness, and threats. Sitātapatrā and her spell have enjoyed a long history and sustained popularity as a source of security against illness and misfortune, and her spell is widely used in contemporary Buddhist communities to this day.