CONTENTS. 



XI 



'ing of the 



The white fonn 



The green form 



Her manual of worship 



Translation of the manual 



Chapter V—Some Magic Rites and Charms 

 Description of the " mandala" or magic circle, oSer 



universe .... 

 The daily offering of the universe 

 The universe according to the Lamas 

 Its general description 

 Its dimensions and the continents 

 Mount Ei-rab (Meru) and its compartments with the heavens 



above .■•■•• 

 The eight matris . . . • 

 The seven precious things of an Emperor 



The Mode of Offering the Mandala : — 



The ceremony of making the mandala and the mental part of 



the process ..•■••• 



The daily service of presentation of offerings 



The eight essential offerings .... 



The offering of the five sensuous excellent things 



Ditto of the seven precious things . 



Ditto, of the eight glorious symbols 



Divination by Lots : — 



Lucky and unlucky days and times, omens, divination by cards, 



by the rosary 

 Manipulation of rosary 

 Results . . ■ • 

 Ordinary mode of divination by seeds or pebbles 



twenty-one, and twenty-eight 

 Dice used in divination 

 Ordinary ivory dice . 

 Wooden dice . 

 The gamble of re-birth 

 The grand coup 

 The Lamaic Zadkiel . 



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