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L. A. Waddell —Description of Lhasa Cathedral . 
[No. 3, 
“ As we emerge (from the chapel) these images are placed in the 
outer court-yard of the gandhalcuta, namely the revelation-finder 1 King 
T’ap-stoq, 2 made by himself, the holy Buddha, the siddhi Birwapa, 8 
and the great Ka^miri Pandit Qakya§ri. 
“ Above the door of the building sit the Buddhas of the three 
periods. 
“ The translator Zags-mk’ar, 4 who transmitted the holy religion to 
this snowy land by translating the Sanskrit books into the Tibetan 
language, made an image of the reverend lord Maitreya, 5 from the 
earth which had been wetted by the stream where the King (Sroq 
bsfcan) and his two consorts used to bathe, and he named it ‘ the bathed 
or baptised Maitreya f 6 
“ In the lap of Maitreya are the sandal-wood image of Manju^ri 
offered by the mGo-yod temple and the white Amiidyus , the tutelary 
image of the Suvarnadvlpa 7 monk who was the teacher of Atl^a, 8 also 
V ajrapani,CUo> four-arm eddy aldhita, the JmuTsog-k’a-pa, the funeral urn 9 
of Legs-pal-s’es-rab (the Lama of) dKon-^ner-dpon who is the author 
of the Chronicle of the Kings, 10 (and of) Ary a Tard t (P and of) the glokas 
written for the remission of the sins of the butcher rMa-ru-rtse, the 
funeral urn of frTson-’grus-snirj-po of mNah-ri, and the votive stone-lamp- 
bowl called ‘ the glorious shining fire ’ which belonged to the Jina 
Tsog-K’a-pa. 
“ There also are the bathing slab of piled-up lotuses, 11 on which the 
king (Srog-frtsan) and his two wives bathed, the image of the great 
doctor, the omniscient Cdnta-raJcsita , and Padma-sambhava who knows 
the (events of the) three times (the present, past and future). These 
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I l flTer-sfon. Conf. my Buddh. of Tibet. 
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8 | This is a Nig-ma Lama who is famous as having built several of 
the still extant iron suspension-bridges across the the Tsag-po and other rivers in 
Tibet. 
8 An Indian monk before the 11th century, A.D. 4 T i 
® | rJe-ttsun byam-mgon. 
6 t b Yam-pa k’rus-mdsad. 
7 From the Burmese monastery of ‘ Thaton ’ (or Chersonesus) near Maulmain. 
8 I ^Nam-med jo-wo ch’en-po. 
9 | srDur| -rten. 
10 | rGyal-rabs ^sal-bai me-log. 
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II } K Wrdo padma spugs-pa. This slab, lam told, is 
circular in shape and about five feet in diameter. 
