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Vol. oy ay 4.] Gyantse Rock Inscription. 97 
re there are heaped up light blue ' images beautiful like 
the aT basins. It is Be a na ery, n of the Register 
(Kar-chag) that old ones d (the new any that 
were) erec re those of) Guru Hadkaaate bhava) in eight 
orms,* —— (Lohita Rudra), pialasaaaaabhcqaaitein na 
3 mas who combat against avidya 
ayas consec ~— 
(Cosmic ""Hilodaems). Be born in the line of Majijughosa,' 
practitioners of pr who are the essence of the Omniscient- 
ge 
1 Here some of the letters have been broken away. 5°§%|I means 
‘white stone. If the reading is 4 Ya, hich seems probable, the 
eng ape be: ‘light prntd Sa the meaning is either ‘light sas 
mages’ or ‘images of white sto 
2 Padma-sambhava generally called Pad- tea Se = Guru was the founder = 
He 
Lamaism in Tibet. has been deified and receives now more worship t 
Buddha himself. Hewas a native of Udyana, a “follower of the. Yogaca aed 
School, and astudent of the College at Nalanda. the invitation of King 
Khrisrong-de-tsan he visited Tibet in a.p. 747 sgh phe the monastery o 
Sam-ye, which is the first Tibetan monastery, in 4.D. 749. His eight forms 
are thus enum _ 
(i) tie three wordt, “Born of a Lotus” for the happiness of 
(ii) @ he es nn by the religious doctrine. 
(iii) Gur! Padma ok Si e king of the three sametonis of scrip- 
(iv) Gara pane eg gro-lod, “ The Diamond comforter of all.” 
(v) Garn fii-ma hod- -2er, ' ‘ The enlightening sun of darkness.” 
(vi) Gura-Sakya Senge, “ The a Sakyasimha.” 
(a) Gera Senge, sgra- oo i, Spa of religion in the six 
pata with the roaring lion’ 
(viii) Guru blo- Idan- -mchog-sred, ‘‘ The Son verer of knowledge to all.” 
Cf, Waddell’s Lamaism, p, 379. 
8 aN'H, waRTa, “The body of law or the absolute body” is 
Buddha in the Nirvna. QON'H, aaa, “the body of happiness 
or glory ” is Buddha in the perfection of a conscious and active life of bliss 
in heaven. guy, fasiaranra, “the body of transformation and incar- 
nation ” is Buddha as man on earth (Vide Jischke, under és ). 
4 The reading is obsonre. qq6"085 probably is the same as 
wafarfarm consecrated. If the reading is FQG'QSS it would mean “of 
eight powers.” 
5 Mafijughosa ( QRH 5acN ) is the god of wisdom whose chief func- 
tion is the dispelling of ignorance or cosmic blindness, ‘‘ Born in the line of 
Mafijughosa” nei “ very learned,” and refers specially to the Lamas of 
the Sakyapa se 
