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or body {plmng-po), 5. province or region {viz, of senses) {k'//ams), 6. passion 

 and affection {hdod-c/ihags), 7. the state of coming forth, duration, and ces- 

 sation {ski/e-va, gnas-pa, dang hgag-pa), 8. , the maker or doer, and the 

 work or deed {hyed-pa-po-dang-las), 9. former existence {sna-rol-iia-gnas-pa), 

 10. fire and the burning wood {me-dang-hud-sh'mg), 11. anterior and posterior 

 limits (of worldly existence), Tib. snon-dang-p'hyi-mahi-mfhah, 12. done by 

 one's self and done by another, {hdag-gis-b?/as-pa-da?ig-gzha7i-gi/is-hijas- jm), 

 13. composition, or the forming of notions {hdu-bj/ed), 14. the act of meet- 

 ing {hp'hrad-pa), 15. self-existence or nature, (rang-hzhm), 16. tied and libe- 

 rated {hchmgs-pa-da?ig-fhar-pa), 17. work and fruit {las-dang-hhras-bu), 

 18. I or Ego, (bdag), 19- time (dus), 20. imion, (of cause and efficient causes), 

 Tib. ts'Jiogs-pa {rgyu-dang-rkyhi), 21. origin or beginning, and destruction, 

 {hbyung-va-dang-hjig-pa), 22. Tathdgata or Buddha {DS-hzhin-gshegs-pa), 

 23. wrong, error, or falsehood, (p'hym-cki-log), 24. excellent truth {hp7iags- 

 paM-hden-pa), 25. deliverance, or delivered from pain {myd-nnn-las-hdas-^m), 

 26. dependent connexion, or causal concatenation, {vten-hbrel), 27. critique of 

 theories {\ta-va-hr fag-pa). These are the principal topics of the Madhydmikd 

 philosophy. I have thought proper to enumerate them here, because they are 

 similar to the subjects of the Prajnd pdramitd. 



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III. (P'HAL-CH'HEN.) 



The third division of the Kdh-gijur is styled, in Tibetan, C*^'^) " Sangs- 

 rgyas-plial-po-cJi'he" or by contraction, P'lml-clihenr Sanscrit, " Buddha- 

 vatdn Satigha," (or as here is, Buddha avatdng saJea), association of Buddhas 

 (or of those grown wise). This is called a siUra of great extent. In Sanscrit, 

 " Mahdvaipulya Sutrai" in Tibetan, " Shiii-tu-xgyas-pa-chlien-pohi-mdo.'" 

 This is contained in six volumes, marked with the six first letters of the Tibe- 

 tan alphabet. The number of the leaves in each is as follows: 1.^^*) 384; 



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