374: DESIONOLATRY. 



First of all prepare offerings of blood, milk, curdled milk, tea, 

 beer, and clean water, which must be arranged 



The offerings. properly, and the maniras or spells of "The Vast 



Sky-like Treasury" or Om-a hunrj-bajra-sparnakham must be repeated. 

 Then chant : — 



"I beg you ! all guardians and evil spirits (of the under-noted 

 " places) to attend to this invitation, viz., the dwellers 



The Prayer. u ^f ^jjg yj^g^ extending ocean of the Upper-Ngari 



" khorsum (stod-wzngah-ri-skor-ysum), the Intermediate, Central West- 

 " em — the four divisions of Tibet (bar-Jbus ^tsaug-ru-Jzhi), Amdo 

 " Kham and Gango of Eastern Tibet and Bhotan (smad-jredo-kham.s- 

 "sgang di'ug),^ India (the white plain), China (the black plain), Li-bal ^ 

 ' Mongolia (the yellow plain). Upper and Lower Turkistan, and all the 

 " kingdom of this continent (V/jsambu-r/ling), the other three great con- 

 " tinents and the eight islands {i:ule Chart of Lamaic Universe, page 

 " 320), and also the spirits of all retired nooks, deserts, rocky places, 

 " caves, cemetery, fire-hearths, fortresses, streams, oceans, ponds, foun- 

 " tains, forests, roads, euipty and uninliabited places, farms and other 

 " important places ; and also those who always attend the congregation 

 "of priests, parties of women, festivals of births, singing parties and 

 " the learners of arts, and also all the dwellers from the highest to the 

 " lowest regions of hell. 



" I beg you, 0! ye guardians of the different kinds of rgyiic/, to 

 " attend this invitation. 



" I beg you, O ! Pho-hla, mo-lha, zhang-lha, srog-lha, and yul-lha, 

 " to attend this invitation. 



" I beg you, ! f/gra-lha of noble and ancient generations, to 

 " attend this invitation. 



" I beg you, ! all ye gods of the white party who give refuge, to 

 " attend this invitation. 



" I beg you, ! all ye demons of the black party who are averse to 

 " the true path, to attend this invitation. 



" I beg you, O ! all ye goblins and demons from the highest 

 "order to the lowest, counting from J/s«?idown to sbin-Adre (life-taking 

 " demon), ^son-/idre (the demon-eater of living animals), and all the 

 "inferior classes of divinities, to attend this invitation; vis., Iha 

 "(gods), naga, Wild, Z^tsau, yamantaka ((/shin-rje), mamo, r/zah (plan- 

 " ets), rgyal-po dllu, the-u-raug, sa-Jdag, ^nyan, srin-po and the 

 " injurers of all the regions. 



' i.e.. the Lower Do (or Amdo), Kham, and "The Six Kidges " — provinces of Eastern 



Tibet. 

 ^ Xj-juI or Khoten, and Pal-y\i\ or Xepal. 



