MONASTIC ROUTINE. 305 



Then he assumes the meditative posture of " the seven attitudes," in 



order to subjugate the five senses. These attitudes 

 J Meditative" pos- are-(l) sitting with legs flexed in the well-known 



attitude of Buddha ; (2) the hands resting one above 

 the other in the lap ; (3) head slightly bent forwards; (4) eyes fixed on 

 the tip of the nose; (5) shoulders "floating like the wings of avultm-e;" 

 (6) spine erect and " straight like an arrow ;" (7) tongue arched 

 upwards to palate like the curving petals of the eight-leaved lotus. 

 While in this posture he must think that he is alone in a wilderness. 

 The three original sins of the body are then got rid of accordino- 



to the humoural physiology of the ancients in the 

 thr^e olSnal Sins ^hree series of dbuma, roma, and rkyang-ma. After 



taking a deep inspiration, the air of the t^oina veins 

 is expelled three times, and thus " the white wind" is let out from the 

 right nostril three times in short and forcible expiratory gusts. This 

 expels all Anger. Then from the left nostril is thrice expelled in a 

 similar way " the red air," which rids from Lust. The colourless central 

 air is thrice expelled, which frees from Ignorance. On concludino- 

 these processes, the monk must mentally realize that all ignorance, 

 lust, and anger — the three Original Sins— have disappeared like frost 

 before a scorching sun. 



He then says the "a-lia-ki," keeping his tongue curved like a 



lotus petal. This is followed by his chanting the 

 ummery. Jlamai rnal-/ibyor or "the Yoga of the Lama," 



during which he must mentally conceive his Lama-guide as sitting 

 overhead upon a lotus flower. 



Then, assuming the spiritual guise of his Yidam or tutelary 

 . deity, he chants the Four Preliminary Services — 



the sngon-gro hzi-hhyox. These are the Refuge 

 formula or skjahs-hgro — vide page 308 — which cleanses the darkness of 

 the Body, the Hundred Letters or Yige-J?-gyapa, which cleanses all 

 obscurity in Speech ; and the magic circle of rice — the Mandala, see 

 page 324 — which cleanses the Mind; and the j)rayer ^sol-/idebs, 

 classifying the lamas up to the most perfect one, confers Perfection 

 on the monk himself. 



This is followed by the chanting of 51a-grub, " the obtaining of 

 the Lama," and "the obtaining of the ornaments snyen-grub." 



The mild deity in this worship is called "The Agreeable One" 

 (wthun) and the demon (drag-po) is called " The Repulsive " (izle-pa). 

 The demoniacal form must be recited that full number of times which 

 the lama bound himself to do by vow before his 

 ^^Eepetition of man- spiritual tutor, viz., 100, 1,000, or 10,000 times 

 daily. Those not bound in this way by vows repeat 

 the charm as many times as they conveniently can. 



