ID: 901001355 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001355	Record Type: Literature

	Great Compassion Mantra (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century)

Note: Mahayana Buddhist incantation, said to have been spoken by the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. From the Sutra of Compassion, used for protection or purification. Translated into Chinese 7th/8th century.

Display Date: translated into Chinese 7th/8th century

Names:

	Great Compassion Mantra (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century) (preferred,t,English-P,D,P)
	Mahākaruṇā Dhāraṇī (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century) (Sanskrit (transliterated),U,P)
	Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century) (Sanskrit (transliterated),U,P)
	大悲咒 (Chinese,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Philosophy, Religion> (P)
		............Great Compassion Mantra (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century) (I)

Related Iconography:

	source is .... Sutra of Compassion
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named sutras, Sutra of Compassion (Buddhist literature)) [901001667]

	author is .... Avalokiteshvara
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Buddhist iconography, Buddhist characters, Avalokiteshvara (Buddhist bodhisattva)) [901000085]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... dharani
	.....(incantations, Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Buddhism
	.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Great Compassion Mantra (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Dunhuang Research Academy, Mogao Grottoes (2000-)
	Mahākaruṇā Dhāraṇī (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī (incantation, Buddhist, translated 7th/8th century)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	大悲咒
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%ABlaka%E1%B9%87%E1%B9%ADha_Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%AB

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Larmer, Caves of Faith (2010)