Yoga ritual manual

Incomplete at the beginning. A description of amaṇḍalawhich is mapped onto different parts of the body. The mapping is accomplished by means of reciting a series ofmantras while imagining a corresponding buddha at each of the body's extremities--eyes, nose, each finger, and so forth. Themantras are written in the main text while the buddhas and their bodily locations are provided in the interlinear notes. A similar passage, with the information in the interlinear notes moved to the main text, is found inIOL Tib J 495.

Yoga ritual manual

Another ritual text, probably continuing from item 1. It begins with a series of praises to the buddhas. This is followed by the bestowal ofsamaya(dam tsig) by means of "waters of mundane pleasures" (srid pa bde ba chu). Then a ritual (yid la 'dod pa'i cho ga) for worshipping the buddhas by means of the "supreme blisses of union" (sbyor ba'i bde ba mchog rnams). It is unclear what this means, which makes it also unclear how to classify this item and item 1, to which it probably linked. Assuming these two items are part of the same ritual system as items 3 and 4, however, the the whole manuscript is probably one longYoga tantra abhiṣekaritual manual.

Yoga ritual manual

This item provides the lama instructions on generating amaṇḍala. OnRf.10v.4themaṇḍalain question is referred to as theVajradhātu maṇḍala(rdo rje dbyings kyi dkyil 'khor). The item is cut off by the end of the recto. It would probably continue on the verso, but that is missing. The last folio is a cover page for the entire manuscript, made from silk mounted on cardboard.

Yoga ritual manual

Because this item is incomplete at the beginning, it is unclear if it should be considered a continuation of item 3 or a new item. It is the longest of the five items in the manuscript, containing directions for granting an empowerment. As the beginning is missing, we cannot be sure how many empowerments are granted in all. We join the ritual in the midst of the "wealth empowerment" (dbyig gi dbang) After this, nine more empowerments follow, for a total of ten: (1) wealth, (2) secretmantra, (3) learning, (4)mudrā, (5) rosary, (6) crown, (7)cakrāvartin, (8) conferral of the wisdom being, (9) name, (10) karma. Thecakrāvartinempowerment is further subdivided into twenty-eight empowerments (seeVf.3v.3-Vf.12r.5). There is no mention of the further empowerments that usually indicate aMahāyogasystem. Thus, according to these criteria at least, this would be considered aYoga tantraempowerment by later Tibetan exegetes. This would seem to strengthen the possible link between this empowerment manual and the "Vajradhātu"maṇḍaladescribed in item 3.

Yoga prayers

This is series of verses which agree in part with theSarvatathāgatha-tattvasaṃgraha(112: 13a.5-20a.1), the section of the tantra in which the sixteen bodhisattvas are summoned byVairocana, each one being invoked by hismantra. This text is incomplete at the end, as there is a lacuna in the manuscript between the last page of this item and the first page of item 6.

Yoga treatise

This item is incomplete at the beginning. It is a discussion on maintaining the vows. It may be the closing advice intended for disciple(s) who have just received the empowerments granted in item 4. The same passage, also incomplete, is found atIOL Tib J 282/2.

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