90 Trans-Himalayan Boodhist Amulets. 
nesses or works (religious, sacrificial, civil, and economical) 
are here enumerated, and all classes of divinity are requested 
not to hinder him in any of his occupations, but to assist him, 
that he may increase in prosperity, and see all his works accom- 
plished. Here also occur some mantras ; that, at the end being 
thus: Om! Supratis’ ht ha Vajrayé-Swahad, Mangalam. 
2. The second work contains in Sanscrit, short addresses 
to Shakya Muni, to Vagishw4ri, to Manipadmé, to Vajra Pani, 
and to Vajra Guru, Padma Siddhi. 
3. The third contains one sloka and a half, in Tibetan, with 
a mystical formula in Sanscrit, on the melodious recital of the 
several attributes of Manju Shri (in Tibetan, Jam-pal) the god 
of wisdom. It is pretended that this short stra, taught by 
Shakya himself, and buried underground in the country of 
Lho-brag, in Tibet, by Padma Sambhava in the 9th century 
after Jesus Christ, was taken out and divulged by Guru Chos- 
kyi d, Vang phyug. 
This is called the venerable sttra, dispelling the dark- 
ness of the ten corners of the world. The salutation is especially 
addressed to Jampal (Manju Shri, in Sans.) and to the ten 
Buddhas in the ten corners of the world. In each of the ten 
that he who carries with him this stitra, may obtain, together with 
gra handsome 
faced youth by Shakya, when he first taught him this sutra. 
_ 5. This is styled the ‘‘ Satra of eight lights.’’ The saluta- 
tion is addressed to Buddha, religion, and_ holy priests, etc. 
There are several mantras, or physical formule in Sanscrit, 
' ystical prayers for averting any evil or calamity, 
intended by Tshangs-pa (Sans. Brahma) by the great god (Sant, 
Then follows a prayer, that by the repetition OF 
! Vajra Chan 
Maha Roshana Him, Phat. Namas Chan’da Vajra Krodhdy2, 
