西藏度亡经

‘The Dharma-Kaya of thine own mind thou shalt see; and seeing That, thou shalt have seen the All—The Vision Infinite, the Round of Death and Birth and the State of Freedom.’—Milarepa. Jetstin Kahbum, xii (Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s Translation. ) [BOre kK 1} (Eee a7 LBARDO MAND THE CHONYID BARDO|\ HERBIN LIETH THE SETTING-PACE-TO-FPACE HO. THE REALITY “IN THE “INTERMEDIATE SPATE: THE GREAT DELIVERANCE BY HEAR-ING WHILE ON THE AFTER-DEATH PLANE, FROM ‘THE PROFOUND DOCTRINE OF THE EMAN-CIPATING OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS BY MEDITAo1GON UPON THE PEACEFUL AND WRATHFUL WEITIES’* 1 Text: ZAB-CHOS ZHI-KHRO DGONGS-PA RANG-GROL LAS BAR-DOHI THOS-GROL CHEN-MO CHOS-NYID BAR-DOHI NGO-SPROD BZHUGS-SO (pronounced: ZAB-CHO SHI-HTO GONG-PA RANG-DOL LAY BAR-DOI THO-DOL CHEN-MO CHO-NYID BAR-DOI NGO-TOD ZHU-SO). DEATH’S MESSENGERS *Atx they who thoughtless are, nor heed, What time Death’s messengers appear, Must long the pangs of suffering feel In some base body habiting. But all those good and holy men, What time they see Death’s messengers, Behave not thoughtless, but give heed To what the Noble Doctrine says; And in attachment frighted see Of birth and death the fertile source, And from attachment free themselves, Thus birth and death extinguishing. Secure and happy ones are they, Released from all this fleeting show; Exempted from all sin and fear, All misery have they overcome.’ Anguttara-Nikaya, iii. 35° (Warren's Translation), BOOK 1] INFKODUCTORY SECTIONS 85 [THE OBEISANCES] To the Divine Body of Truth,! the Incomprehensible, Boundless Light ; To the Divine Body of Perfect Endowment,? Who are the Lotus and the Peaceful and the Wrathful Deities ; 3 To the Lotus-born Incarnation, Padma Sambhava,* Who is the Protector of all sentient beings ; To the Gurus, the Three Bodies,’ obeisance.…