Toh 646Tantra
The Dhāraṇī “Giving Refuge to the Preta Flaming Mouth”
ཡི་དགས་ཁ་ནས་མེ་འབར་བ་ལ་སྐྱབས་མཛད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས།
yi dags kha nas me ’bar ba la skyabs mdzad pa zhes bya ba’i gzungs
Translator: Translated by Paul G. Hackettunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Read time: 12 min
Version: v1.0.5
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Summary
The Dhāraṇī of Refuge for the Preta Flaming Mouth recounts the nocturnal encounter of the monk Nanda with a gruesome preta (“hungry ghost”) who predicts his imminent death. After recounting his experience to the Buddha, he is taught a dhāraṇī and an associated food offering ritual to allay the sufferings of pretas and avert his prophesied fate.