CONTENTS. 



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Side-chapels 



Upper flat ..... 

 Description of the pictorial wheel of life 



The altar 



Its tiers ...... 



Its accessories ..... 



The offerings 



Food offering ..... 



Candles ...... 



The essential offerings 



Order of offerings .... 



Accompanying worship 



Special banquet to the host of gods and demons 



When given ..... 



Its arrangement . . ; . 



Other articles on altar 



The Lama's table .... 



Lamaic rosaries, their origin and uses 

 Description of the rosary and its appendages, 

 its number of beads 1 08 



The head beads .... 



The coimters 



Use of counters .... 



Material of beads .... 



Yellow rosary . . ■ . . 



White rosary ..... 



Crystal, sandal-wood, coral, human skull, 

 nan-ga pani, snake spines, and lay rosaries 



Mode of telling the beads . 



Mystic formulas for the beads . 



Origin of the formula " Om mani " . 



List of the masks .... 



Dress of masquers .... 



Lamaic library .... 



Kan-gyur (the translated commandments) 



Tengyur (translated doctrinal commentaries) 



Divisions of Kah-gyur .... 



"Bum," "Nyi-thi," " Gye-tong-ba," Dorje 

 Pedma kah-thang, " Namthars," Lepcha 

 cellaneous books ..... 



vernacular 



ilephant-stone, rak-sh 



name 



chijpa, D6-mang, 

 Scriptures and mis- 



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