Mahamayavijayavahinidharani, Mahāmāyāvijayavāhinīdhāraṇī, Mahamayavijayavahini-dharani: 1 definition

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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (mahayana)

Mahāmāyāvijayavāhinīdhāraṇī (महामायाविजयवाहिनीधारणी) is the name of an ancient text dealing with Dhāraṇī (rites for the protection of the state).—The setting of this scripture is Mount Svarṇaśṛṅga, the mansion of Vaiśravaṇa, where Nārāyaṇa requests help from the Buddha upon defeat by the Asuras, much like the Dhvajāgrakeyūradhāraṇī. The lord tells him that earlier, during the reign of King Ratnaśrī of Magadha, there lived Sarveśvara Tathāgata, from whom the Bhagavān learned the Mahāmāyāvijayavāhinī spell. For hundreds of thousands of years that king ruled righteously by the power of this dhāraṇī. In his next existence he was born as Māndhātā, a Bodhisattva and Cakravartin king, who practiced charity for sixty-four thousand kalpas and became a Buddha. [...]

Note: The Nārāyaṇaparipṛcchā/Mahāmāyāvijayavāhinīdhāraṇī was edited, along with the Tibetan translation by Bstan pa’i nyin byed, by Banerjee (1941) on the basis of a palm-leaf manuscript dated to 1361CE. No Chinese translation seems to be available.

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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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