A PART OF THE TIBETAN SACRED WORKS. 



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4. In the 4th class are enumerated ninety faults. 



5. The 5th kind of faults or sins are such as must be confessed. 

 Besides these rules, are numerous instructions regarding decent behaviour, 

 dress — attitude or posture of the body — manner of eating and drinking, 

 and when giving religious instruction to others. 



On leaf 30 to 32. Praise of religious discipline in general, (in verse.) 



From leaf 33 to 74. Several stories on fornication or adultery. 

 J5zANG-BYiN, a priest, commits adultery. Shaky a is informed of the 

 fact. He is cited— rebuked — and expelled. A rule is made that thence- 

 forth all adulterers shall be expelled. The circumstances of this story 

 may be seen, leaf 33 to 40, together with the terms Shakya used in 

 rebuking the guilty. 



From leaf 74. On stealing or robbery. 



Anecdotes — kinds and modifications of theft — several instances of 

 cheating, tricks and frauds in eluding the duties at custom-houses, &c. 



Leaf 105. There are likewise several instances, how traders have 

 defrauded the custom-houses, in putting some of their precious things into 

 the bags of the monks. 



Leaf 155 to 166. The consequences of lust and theft — fabulous his- 

 tory of the origin of evil in the world. 



From leaf 162 to 239. Several stories of suicide and poisoning 

 amongst the monks, or of causing themselves to be slain or deprived of 

 life, out of grief or despair, upon hearing of the various kinds of miseries 

 or calamities of life. Shakya prohibits discoursing on the miseries of 

 life, so as to bring others to desperation thereby.* 



Leaf 270 to 274. Pretended supernatural knowledge attributed to the 

 communication or inspiration of any divinity. Terms for rebuking such 

 pretenders. 



* For a similar story, see Ainsworth's Dictionary under Hegesias in the Index Norn, 

 prop. 



"Hegestas, a philosopher of Gyrene, who displayed the miseries of life with such eloquence, that several 

 slew themselves to be out of them ; for which reason he was commended by Ptolemy to discourse uo more on 

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