Yoga ritual manual

This text is a ritual for a deceased person (tshe 'das pa): at various points in the text the name of the dead person is to be inserted into a prayer. The ritual describes a four-gatedmaṇḍala. For each gate the Sanskrit name of the direction is given in a rough Tibetan phonetic transcription. Then, for each gate, a prayer (smon lam) is given to be recited on behalf of the deceased. Each of the prayers addressesŚakyamūni, the eight greatUṣṇīṣa,"and so on," suggesting the deities of theŚakyamūni maṇḍalaof theSarvadurgatipariśodhana-tantra. At the end of each prayer the buddha specific to that direction is invoked, along with one of the five wisdoms.

This manuscript is incomplete at the end. A more complete version of the same text is found in37/2. The present manuscript, which is well-written, may be a fair copy taken from37/2, which is very roughly written. The present manuscript reproduces several errors from that version, and adds some more errors which seem to be due to misreadings of37/2.