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Ahorātra Yajña Vidhi manuscript preview

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Ahorātra Yajña Vidhi

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Ahorātra Yajña Vidhāna is an esoteric Vajrayāna fire-offering ritual. This ritual has Cakrasaṃvara and Vajravārāhī as the central deities; however, the offering of bali e...

Sindūrārcana Pūjā manuscript preview

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Sindūrārcana Pūjā

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Sindūrārcana is an esoteric Vajrayāna ritual dedicated to Cakrasaṃvara and Vajravārāhī. Sindūrārcana literally means the “offering of sindūra” and focuses on the visualiz...

Śrāddha Vidhi manuscript preview

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Śrāddha Vidhi

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Śrāddha Vidhi manuscript is a ritual text concerning the funeral rites in the Newar Buddhist community. At the beginning, it entails the pacificatory rites of Puṭalikā Da...

Āryatārā Devīyā Saptavidhānuttara Pūjā manuscript preview

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Āryatārā Devīyā Saptavidhānuttara Pūjā

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Āryatārā Pūjā Vidhi is a detailed ritual text describing the Saptavidhānuttara Pūjā dedicated to the Bodhisattva Tārā. It contains ritual instructions in Nepalbhasha and...

Cacā Safū manuscript preview

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Cacā Safū

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The Cacā Safū manuscript contains two sets of Caryāgītis. The first set comprises sixteen Caryāgītis, while the second consists of eighteen. These include Madhye Meru, Sa...

Dvādaśatīrtha Nāgapūjāvidhi manuscript preview

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Dvādaśatīrtha Nāgapūjāvidhi

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The manuscript deals with the ritual for the worship of the twelve great nāgas residing at the twelve tīrthas of the Kathmandu Valley. It is a ritual text in which the pr...

Homakriyā tathā Mahāvali manuscript preview

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Homakriyā tathā Mahāvali

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Homakriyā tathā Mahābali Pūjā Manuscript is a ritual text describing the performance of fire rites (homa) conducted for the peace, prosperity, and well-being of the yajam...

Dikṣāyā cacā manuscript preview

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Dikṣāyā cacā

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Dīkṣāyā Cacā is a collection of fourteen caryāgīti songs performed within esoteric Vajrayāna ritual contexts as described in the Āgamas. The manuscript preserves a struct...

Śuddhāvāsika Sukuṇḍaladeva Putroddhāraṇa Prakaraṇa manuscript preview

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Śuddhāvāsika Sukuṇḍaladeva Putroddhāraṇa Prakaraṇa

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Śuddhāvāsika Sukuṇḍaladeva Putroddhāraṇa Prakaraṇa is a chapter from the Ārya Guṇakāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra. It narrates the story of the celestial being Sukuṇḍaladeva, who suff...

Vimalāvadāna manuscript preview

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Vimalāvadāna

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Vimalāvadāna is a distinctive avadāna narrative concerning Vimala and his spiritual journey toward Buddhahood. The text is structured through three narrative layers. In t...

Mahāsattvāvadāna manuscript preview

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Mahāsattvāvadāna

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This peculiar set of manuscripts is from the popular Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra. One of its chapters is the Vyāghrī Jātaka, also known as the Mahāsattvāvadāna. The first page...