ritual manual

CompareIOL Tib J 340and4593. Incomplete ritual manual for performance of a water offering. Title assumed on the basis of the item's similarity to ITJ340. Folios should be read in the following order: [1]-[11]-[3]-[12]-[2 folios missing]-[16]-[2]-[end missing].

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ritual manual

The remaining folios in this manuscript are difficult to organize. It is unclear whether they represent a single text or more than one. If a single work, it would seem to be another water offering (chu gtor) manual. It is possible that the following folios may be consecutive: [5]-[4] and (more certainly) [6]-[15]-[9]-[13]. Folio10is clearly the beginning of a text. The wording on that folio is almost identical to the opening lines to item 1, including the interlinear notes, but the two items part ways on line two. The assumption in341that this is a copy of item 1 is therefore mistaken. The first folio goes on to direct the reader to mix the offering ingredients in a bowl, "in accordance with the instructions in theRin po che sna brgyad" (IOL Tib J 341/2, 10v.2). The latter is the title of another work apparently discovered by Stein in the same bundle (Ch.73.III) at Dunhuang and written in the same hand (seeIOL Tib J 407).

Folios 5-4 describe a buddha-field, while folios 6-15-9-13 contain prayers for inviting the deities to the offering and then to accompany the water offering proper. Folios 7, 8, and 17 describe a series of visualizations, of oneself asVajrasattvaat the centre of amaṇḍala, of purification with light-rays, and of oneself asHayagrīva.