prayers

This offering prayer requests the conquerors and various worldly deities to come and dispel the obstacles facing the land of Tibet. In every instance of the appearance of the phrase "land of Tibet" (bod khams), the text has been defaced, so that thena rocharacter abovebodand some or all of the syllablekhamshave been scratched out. This may suggest that the Tibetan specificity of the text was considered undesireable at some point. The last line attributes the prayer to adge slong dpal brtsegs, perhaps identical with the famous translator and author,ska ba dpal brtsegs, although there is no similar text attributed to this figure in thebstan 'gyur. The folios are numbered from one to three, yet the text does nott seem to be continuous from one folio to the next, and begins abruptly on the first folio. Thus it appears that the numbers are a later addition, and the text is not actually complete. Some affiliation with theVajrayānais indicated by a buddha refered to as3r.2 bcom ldan 'das bder gshegs rdo rje gsang ba'i bdag.