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into Tibetan. The ninth volume contains six, and the tenth, seven 

 different treatises. 



Each of the succeeding volumes is similarly distributed amongst a 

 greater or smaller number of different works. Thus, the 15th contains 

 nineteen tracts, the 16th, eighteen, and the 26th, thirty-three. They 

 are all of too similar a character to need particularization. Each is a 

 lecture on some topic of Bauddha belief or practice, delivered by 

 Sakya, at the request of some of his followers, or in reply to their 

 inquiries. A few particulars of some of them may be noticed. 



In the 13 th volume and 14th article is narrated a dialogue between 

 Sakya and an old woman at Brij. She puts many philosophical en- 

 quiries, to the astonishment of Sakya's pupil Kun-gah-oo, on which 

 Sakya tells him that she had been his mother in former ages for five 

 hundred generations. 



The 11th number of the 15th volume, the Chandrottara ddrikd 

 Vydkarana, contains a prophecy, that a girl named Chandrottara 

 and one of his followers shall become a Buddha ; there are similar 

 predictions of other persons in this volume. 



In the Lokana Samana Avatar a, the 1 9th article, in the same volume, 

 Sakya explains to Manju' Sri', his spiritual son, the considerations 

 which induce the Buddhas to conform their practices to the concep- 

 tions of mankind. 



The 1 9th volume commences with the Dherma Sangzti, or treatise 

 on moral merit : in this, the different virtues are enumerated, and an 

 account given of the advantages to be derived from their exercise. 

 A discussion is also detailed between two Bodhisatwas on the nature 

 of the Tathagatas or Buddhas, and in what sense the description of 

 their birth, life, and death is to be received. 



Most of the treatises in the 20th volume are intended for the bene- 

 fit of the Bodhisatwas, and shew them by what moral and virtuous 

 observances they may soonest attain the perfection and degree of a 

 Buddha. 



The first article in the 21st volume is entitled Buddha ndma sa- 

 hasra pancha, sata chatur, tri panchasat, and is, as the name implies, 

 the enumeration of 5,453 epithets of a Bnddha or Tathdgata, each 

 being descriptive of some fancied or real excellence, and being accom- 

 panied with a reverential formula. Thus, 



I adore the Tathdgata, the universally radiant sun. 



I adore the Tathdgata, the moral wisdom. 



1 adore the Tathdgata, the chief lamp of all the regions of space— 

 and so on, for 137 leaves, 



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