In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Dhāraṇīmantrapada (धारणीमन्त्रपद) refers to the “mantrapadas of a Dhāraṇī)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [after as the four great kings said to the Bhagavān], “[...] Let the Bhagavān utter such mantrapadas which deliver the world under destruction by various sorts of misfortune in the last time, in the last age, which eliminate excessive rain, drought, thunderbolts, cold spells and heatwaves, which alleviate, ward off and protect from famine and calamities. Utter the dhāraṇī-mantrapadas”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Partial matches: Mantrapada, Dharani, Tarani.

Full-text (+34): Mlanakaya, Tharathara, Paritapta, Mlana, Akranda, Agnijvala, Samdahya, Mahadharani, Nagakula, Vidhvamsani, Nagavalokita, Prasvinna, Sapatha, Tathagatavalokita, Vyavalokya, Sakalabhavana, Murcchita, Anujnata, Prapatita, Sammurcchita.

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