PREFACE

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Chapter VI

Dharani – Mudra - Yantra – Mandala and Magic

Circles of Secret Buddhism in China – Tibet – Japan

and Cambodia

I. SIX LETTERS DHARANI KING SUTRA

Shi Yi recorded in the Liang

Dynasty Thich Vien Duc

translation from Chinese to

Vietnamese.

As I have heard, once Buddha was in Svavasti country, in
the forest of Jetjeta, there was a secular woman (Candala), who
used sorcery on Ananda and many others. She worshipped the
Asuras of mountains and trees, the sun, the moon, the five stars,
the Asuras of the Great Bear constellation, ghosts and evil spirits.
When the Buddha saw Ananda in distress from her spells, he felt
compassion for beings in the three generations and revealed the
Six Words Dharani. He said: “The Buddhas of the past have
given this Dharani, today I also give it”. Then he recited:

“...... (Dharani)”

If anyone from heaven, or from ghosts, Dragons, yaksas,
rakchasas, kumbhandas, putanas, pishachas, Abamala (blue
Demons), Upamala, Krstya (Demons who possess cadavers) and
other Demons, Sramana Brahmane monk, Khattiya, (2nd class
ruling India) Vaisya (3rd of the four castes-the settlers) Sudra (the
workers in the field), Matanga, Candala (the lowest class), or