Anantamukhanirhāradhāraṇīṭīkā
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आर्न्मखनिर्हारधारणीटीका
Anantamukhanirhāradhāraṇīṭīkā
འཕགས་པ་སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་གཟུངས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ
'phags pa sgo mtha' yas pa sgrub pa'i gzungs kyi rgya cher 'grel pa
An Extensive Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Attaining Limitless Doors (84000)
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Jñānagarbha (slob dpon ye shes snying po). anantamukhanirhāradhāraṇīṭīkā [आर्न्मखनिर्हारधारणीटीका]. 'phags pa sgo mtha' yas pa sgrub pa'i gzungs kyi rgya cher 'grel pa [འཕགས་པ་སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་གཟུངས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ]. [An Extensive Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Attaining Limitless Doors (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 1519 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=1519&typ=2.
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The Anantamukhasādhakadhāraṇī (also called The Incantation for Achieving the Boundless Gate) is an important Buddhist dhāraṇī text from the Mahāyāna tradition. It belongs to the early dhāraṇī literature that eventually developed into full tantric practices.
The text likely dates to around the 3rd-4th century CE, originating during the later development of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India. Like many dhāraṇī texts, its specific author is unknown, as these works were typically attributed to the Buddha himself or were considered to have emerged from collective spiritual practice rather than individual authorship.
The text contains mantras and incantations believed to possess spiritual power. It focuses on the concept of "unimpeded" or "infinite entrances" (anantamukha) to dharma realization. The dhāraṇī is recited to remove obstacles to spiritual practice and to gain insight into the nature of reality.
The Anantamukhasādhakadhāraṇī was influential in several ways:
- It was translated into Chinese multiple times, including versions by Zhiyan in the 5th century and later by Xuanzang.
- It contributed to the development of esoteric Buddhist practices in East Asia
- It served as an important text in the transition from earlier Mahāyāna Buddhism to later tantric forms.
- Elements of its practices were incorporated into various Buddhist rituals across Asia. (Generated by Claude.ai Apr 4, 2025)
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The Ānantamukhanirhāradhāriṇīvyākhyānakārikā is a collection of versified commentary verses (kārikā) authored by the 8th-century Indian Buddhist master Jñānagarbha. The title translates to "A Versified Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Attaining Limitless Doors." It is a foundational commentarial text preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur canon (Tohoku 2697 / RKTST 1518) under the Tibetan title: འཕགས་པ་སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་གཟུངས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ ('Phags pa sgo mtha' yas pa sgrub pa'i gzungs rnam par bshad pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa).
