564 ABSTRACT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE EGYUD. 



24th Chap. ^INX' 5' ^5'^' ^Q' i&W' Gsar-du-hchug-pahi-cJi'hos-ts'han. 

 Treatises lately added to the Tantras, on initiation, consecration, eman- 

 cipation, ho,, from y to g — fourteen volumes. 



Such are the general contents of the eighty-seven volumes of the Tantra class. 



Here follow the titles of some of the treatises contained in the above enu- 

 merated chapters : — 



Note. — The Tibetan letters prefixed denote the volume in which they may be found. By the 

 thirty single letters, without any apparent vowel sign, the Tibetans express on registers the 

 numerals from one to thirty ; afterwards, from thirty-one to sixty, by adding to each letter the 

 vowel sign ) "ii" from sixty-one to ninety, by adding ) " u;" from ninety-one to 

 a hundred and twenty, by adding ) "e;" and from one hundred and twenty-one to one 

 hundred and fifty, by adding to each letter the " o" ( ). 



{Us, ^) S^'i'QPX-'of T Dus-hji-hUhor-lo. {Kdla-chakra) the circle of time, 

 in a proper sense ; but it is taken generally as the name of a particular 

 god presiding over several other gods of inferior rank. This system 

 originated in the north of Asia, in the fabulous Shambhala, in the environs 

 of the river Sihon (or Sita), and was introduced into India in the tenth 

 century after Christ. Beside the several rites and ceremonies to be 

 observed in representing the male and female deities of this department, 

 the chief doctrine taught in this system is that on the nature of A'di- 

 BuDDHA, and the worship most acceptable to him. 



^' sf-{ qQ' T Dri-ma-med-paJd-hod. " Spotless light" is the title of « 

 large commentary on the above work. 



5^' I' QPX' ^Q' |z?' T Dus-kyi-hUhor-lohi-sgriih-fhahs. On the rituals 

 and ceremonies of the Kdla-cliakra system. 



