page_title: Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra
section_title: Contents
hierarchical_section_title: Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra / Contents
caption_attribution_description: English: Scanned Version of Distribution of Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sacred Stone Tablets Throughout the world.
context_page_description: The Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī sūtra is a Mahayana sutra from India. An alternate longer Sanskrit title is the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī sūtra.
context_section_description: The purpose of this sūtra is said to be to help sentient beings in a troubled and tumultuous world. According to this sūtra, beings will leave suffering and obtain happiness, increasing in their prosperity and longevity, remove karmic obstacles, eliminate disasters and calamities, remove enmity and hatred, fulfill all wishes, and quickly be led onto the Buddha's way. It is held by some that when the dhāraṇī is heard, it can imbue the alaya consciousness with pure seeds that will help to lead one to buddhahood.
  According to the text, major applications of this dhāraṇī include:
  Destroy calamities and rescue those in difficulties
  Eliminate offenses and create good deeds
  Purify all karmic obstructions
  Increase blessings and lengthen lifespan
  Attain anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi
  Relieve beings in the ghost realm
  Benefit birds, animals and all crawling creatures
  Increase wisdom
  Revert the fixed karma;
  Eliminate various illness;
  Destroy hells;
  Ensure the safety of the households, and having children to inherit the family pride;
  Harmonise husbands and wives;
  Be able to reborn in Sukhavati or other pure lands;
  Heal sickness inflicted by pretas;
  Request for rain etc.
  Some quotes from the sutra text include:
  If someone hears this Dharani even just for a moment, he will not undergo karmic retribution from evil karma and severe hindrances accumulated from thousands of kalpas ago, that would otherwise cause him to revolve in the cycles of birth and death - in all kinds of life forms in the evil paths - hell, hungry ghost, animal, realm of King Yama, Asuras...ferocious animals, crawling creatures and even ants and other life forms...he will be reborn in the Buddhalands, together with all the Buddhas and Ekajati-pratibadda Bodhisattvas, or in a distinguished Brahmin or Ksatriya family, or in some other wealthy and reputable families.
caption: Distribution of Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sacred Stone Tablets Throughout The World (1993–2007) by Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Chanting Group[2]