CONTENTS

01--Message from the Editor

04--Foreword

23--Preface 1
Emperor Yong Le of the Ming Dynasty

25--Preface 2
Sramana Zhi Jing

29--Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sutra
Buddhapala

39--Mantra and Sutra of Usnisa Vijaya Dharani that Eradicates Karmic Obstruction
Tripitaka Master Divakara

42--The Tang Dynasty Records of Buddhapala in Wu Tai Mountain
Volume 2 of Records of High Priests in the Song Dynasty

44--The Miracle Stories of the Revised Usnisa Vijaya Dharani
Wu Che

51--Efficacious Records of Usnisa Vijaya Dharani
Wu che

54--Glossary

 

directions and three periods of time. At the same time, they also distributed copies of Sanskrit phonetic cassettes and Malaysian newspaper articles on Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sutra to the Sangha in the respective monasteries. The remaining three tablets were presented to the HuaYen Monastery in Datong, the Da Ci En Monastery in Xian and the Guang Ji Monastery in Beijing.

On 27th June 1999, the students from Sunway College Buddhist Society, in the state of Selangor, Malaysia (Wong Shui Yun, Wu Swee Ting, etc.) erected a 72 kg Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sacred Stone Tablet, at the highest mountain in South East Asia - Mount Kinabalu (4095m above sea level), which is located in the state of Sabah, Malaysia.

Other occasions regarding the distribution of Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sacred Stone Tablets throughout the world are recorded in Appendix 8.

Summary

The Sutra carved on the stonc wall in the Zhong Yuan Monastery of Suzhou, China, reads:

   To lead all beings of four modes of birth and nine types of life form,
   To attam Maha Parinirvana,
   No being, in fact, has been liberated,
   No teoching surpasses the Vajra Sutra.
   To eradicate the offences and accumulate blessings,
   To purify all evil paths,
   No sutra supersedes the usnisa vijaya Dharani.

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