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" O ! I give to you all these offerings of red blood, of sweet tea, 

 " of clean water, of intoxicating drink, and of white butter. 1 make 

 " these offerings to you all. Pray accept them : 



Those who prefer beer, please take beer ! 

 >> ,, tea ,, ,, tea . 

 J, ,, blood ,, ,, blood! 

 „ ,, water „ ,, water! 

 „ ■„ milk „ „ milk! 

 Pray accept these food offerings and do us no further injury ! 

 Pray do not injure the human beings of the upper regions ! 

 ,, ,, lower animals of the lower regions I 



,, ,, crops of the fields ! 



,, ,, moisture of the plants! 



,, ,, essence of wealth I 



„ „ good qualities of the kingdom ! 



,, „ wealth and riches ! 



,, ,, good repute and influence! 



,, ,, life and soul! 



,, ,, breath and prosperity ! 



O ! may we all be possessed of perfect minds ! 

 O ! may we all be happy and useful to each other! 

 O ! may we all obtain the highest power of Tathagatas ! 

 O ! may we all obtain the sphere of piety, and having obtained 

 it, may all our wishes be fulfilled and roach the supreme end ! 



Bajra mu ! Now I beg you all to depart to your respective 

 dwellings! 



" Let Glory come ! " " Tashi shok ! " 

 " Virtue ! " " dGe-o I » 



Exorcising the Disease-producing Demons— the "She." 



The demons who produce disease, short of actual death, are called 

 gs\\Qd (pronounced she). These are exorcised by an 

 The Disease-demon is elaborate ceremony in which a variety of images and 

 exorcsed by threats. ^^^^^^^^ ^re made. And the officiating lama. in- 

 voking his tutelary demon thereby assumes spiritually the dread guise 

 of his favourite demon, and orders out the disease-demon under threat 

 of being himself eaten up by the awful tutelary demon which now 

 possesses tlie lama. 



The directions for this exorcism are the following : — 



On the five terraces of the magic circle of Rirab [vide Mandala or 



Magic Circle, page 320) make the image of a yellow 



The offerings, and fi-og -with a nam-kha, having its belly and face 



*®^^^' yellow, and on the east, a two-headed figure with 



