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This brief dhāraṇī opens with homage to a feminine figure called the
blessed and noble Lady Who Remembers Past Lives, gives a Sanskrit formula in
Tibetan transcription, and then declares the benefits of retaining,
reciting, teaching, or writing it. The text promises recollection of former
births, the sovereignty of a wheel-turning monarch, and a body free from
illness.

The work is D4457 / Toh 4457 in the Degé Tengyur, volume 212, folios
265a.5–265a.7. The 84000 catalog calls it A Dhāraṇī for Recalling
[Previous] Lives but contains no English translation body. This independent
translation was made from the pinned Esukhia Degé etext and checked against
the same-work ACIP transcription. The work is anonymous. Its colophon names
Dharmabhadra as the Tibetan translator and says that he translated it from
an Indian exemplar written in gold.

Homage to the blessed and noble Lady Who Remembers Past Lives.

Namo bhagavate siddhi siddhe mocani mokṣaṇi mukte amale vimale nirmale
aṇḍare paṇḍare maṅgalaṃ. Hiraṇye garbhe sarvatrāpratihate svāhā.¹

Anyone who retains this dhāraṇī, reads it, teaches it, writes it down, or has
it written down will, through its power, recall their rebirths over the past
eighty-four thousand eons.²

For ninety thousand eons, that person will be a wheel-turning monarch with
dominion over the four continents.

That person will possess a body completely free from every illness.

Colophon

The Noble Dhāraṇī for Recalling Past Lives is complete. Dharmabhadra
translated it from an Indian exemplar written in gold.

Good Works Translation from Tibetan (Degé Tengyur D4457 / Toh 4457, volume
212, folios 265a.5–265a.7). Independently translated from the Tibetan source
for the Good Works Library, July 2026. The work is anonymous; the colophon
names Dharmabhadra as the Tibetan translator.

Compiled and formatted for the Good Works Library, 2026.

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Source Text: འཕགས་པ་སྐྱེ་བ་དྲན་པའི་གཟུངས།

Tibetan source text from the Esukhia digital edition of the Degé Tengyur,
D4457, folios 265a.5–265a.7. Presented complete for reference and
verification; the D-number, folio markers, spelling, and line divisions are
retained.

{D4457}བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་འཕགས་པ་སྐྱེ་བ་
[265a.6]དྲན་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །ན་མོ་བྷ་ག་ཝ་ཏེ་སིདྡྷི་སིདྡྷེ་མོ་ཙ་ནི་མོ་ཀྵ་ཎི་མུཀྟྲེ་ཨ་མ་ལེ་བི་མ་ལེ་ནིརྨ་ལེ་ཨཎྜ་རེ་པཎྜ་རེ་མངྒ་ལཾ། ཧི་ར་ཎྱེ་གརྦྷེ་སརྦ་ཏྲཱ་པྲ་ཏི་ཧ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། གང་ཞིག་གཟུངས་འདི་འཛིན་པ་དང་ཀློག་པ་དང་སྟོན་པ་དང་ཡི་གེར་འདྲི་བ་དང་ཡི་གེར་འདྲིར་འཇུག་ན། གཟུངས་འདིའི་མཐུས་དེ་བསྐལ་བ་བརྒྱད་
[265a.7]ཁྲི་བཞི་སྟོང་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་དྲན་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། །བསྐལ་པ་དགུ་ཁྲིར་གླིང་བཞི་ལ་དབང་བའི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བར་འགྱུར་རོ། །ནད་ཐམས་ཅད་དང་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བའི་གཟུགས་དང་ལྡན་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། །འཕགས་པ་སྐྱེ་བ་དྲན་པའི་གཟུངས་རྫོགས་སོ།། །།རྒྱ་དཔེ་གསེར་གྱིས་བྲིས་པ་ལས་དྷརྨཱ་བྷ་དྲས་བསྒྱུར་བའོ།། །།

Source Colophon

The controlling source is the Esukhia digital edition of the Degé Tengyur,
pinned at commit 174653137d62af481f53c6ae3dc842bf8629323e. The exact D4457
extraction is 1,705 bytes with SHA-256
2da1e7a7c23ef0bdf8ecadacad29aa2aaac4466382da86a98b9411ad3fc1f21d.
It begins with the homage at folio 265a.5, runs through Dharmabhadra's
translator statement on folio 265a.7, and ends immediately before D4458. The
Esukhia source is recorded as a mechanical reproduction of a public-domain
work.

The same-work ACIP transcription agrees on the title, homage, benefit
clauses, and translator statement. Narthang and Peking support reading
mukte where the controlling transcription has muktre, and they support
joining sarvatrāpratihate. The remaining mantra is transmitted in Tibetan
transcription and contains uncertain Sanskrit forms; it is preserved rather
than conjecturally reconstructed. Narthang's lone Dharmapālabhadra reading
is likely contamination from the immediately preceding work; Degé, ACIP, and
the 84000 catalog agree on Dharmabhadra.

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