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
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The Miracle Stories of
the Revised Usnisa Vijaya Dharani
(Narrated by Wu Che, the Emperor's Court Couneillor and Assistant)
The Usnisa Vijaya Dharani is the secret treasure of all the Tathagatas, a
Dharani Dharma-door, which is also the wisdom seal of the Maha Vairocana Tathagata.
Auspicious, excellent and pure, this powerful divine Mantra is able to eradicate
sufferings of all evil paths.
During the Tang dynasty in the years of Yi Feng (676-678 AD), the edition of this Dharani
translated by Buddhapala was circulated to all Buddhist monasteries in China. Cultivators
who upheld It were numerous.
From a very young age, I had already been upholding and reciting It. In the first year of
Yong Tai (765 AD), after the death of my wife, I became even more sincere and vigorous in
my cultivation and practice, seeking the Way to transcend the world of Samsara. Then there
was a palace official called Jiang Xing, who also constantly upheld and chanted this
divine Mantra. One day, he came to visit me in my private quarters and told me very
happily, "I have now found the ultimate Way (Supreme Way) which is extremely
difficult to encounter!"
I sincerely and respectfully asked how this was so, and it turned out that he had obtained
a complete version of the Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Mantra. There and then, I invited him to
recite it once and found that the version of the Mantra he recited had more sentences and
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