Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sutra

CONTENTS

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

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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