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L. A. Waddell — Description of Lhclsa Cathedral. [No. 3, 
In the middle of the Bed-bar (room) 1 is the picture of Cri Devi , 
of great blessedness, made during the time of the king (Srog-6t<san). 
In the north is the siddhi room of Lama Z’ag, and in the south is the 
residence of ‘ the great Guru ’ (Padma sambliava). 
Under the golden top-ornament of ‘ the Great Pitying One 1 (a form 
of Avalokita) 2 is ‘the Jina Cdkya Muni (and) the seven Medical Buddhas 8 
made by Ts’al-pal-nag-gner-b&ra-s’is; (also) Vaigrav ana the commander 
of the sattvas and the yaJcsas . 
Above the head of ‘the great precious Lord’ (Jo-wo rin-po-ch’e) 
and above the eight sattvas and the two fiends which formed the retinue 
of Mi-’gro-^sug, 4 in the time of the king (Srog-btsan) are the five 
Jivas b made by the great master d&Ag-brtson. 
On the throne of the shaking Cri Devi 6 is a moulded image of 
a passionate form of Ye-s’e-sems-dpali, done by the incarnate mGo-gru- 
fcz’i, during the time of Ts’al-pa-kTi-dpou from the picture of Cri Devi 
drawn by the king (Srog-btsan) with the blood of his nose. On the 
top of the Sandal-wood door is (written) the true title ‘ The glorious 
throne-door. 7 
The (chapel) now called ‘ The temple of the sixteen Sthavira was 
built by the great master Gor-lo-ta-i-lia-si-tu-sbon-ch’ig-dben (alias?) 
Qri-dban-p’ug-&rtson-’gnis, when the fakyas possessed the whole of 
Tibet and the thirteen surrounding thrones. The interior contained 
relics and the image of the most perfect Buddha surrounded by the 
sixteen disciples. Also the (picture of the) palace where the king of 
Gyag-rtse lives, the picture drawn in the Chug-do castle at Ho-’ten-si 
in China in the summer recess during the reign of the Chinese king 
Ta-i-gim by a Sthavira who had been invited by the UpasaJca Dharma- 
tala; the pictures (showing) fhe invitation of Ye-ra-pa-ra by kLu-mes- 
’brom-ch’ug, and the powerful Hwa-s’ag sitting in a glorious rock-cavern 
amid clay idols ; the picture (exhibiting) how Ary a Vasubhadra 9 taught 
1 This word in the text is not distinct. 
2 See my art. in J.R.A.S. for 1894, p. 55. 
3 See my Buddh. of Tibet, p. 353 — Qakya ]\f un j forms the eighth member of 
this group. 
4 This is said to have been a counterfeit image of the great ‘ Jo-wo ’ made by 
the Tibetans in order to send to the Chinese where the latter demanded back their 
original idol; but on completion the new image spoke and said t{ Mi-gro ” that is 
‘ I won’t go,’ hence its name, say the Lamas. 
3 The so-called ‘ Dhydni Buddhas ’ of Nepalese Buddhists, see my Buddh. of 
Tibet, pp. 336 and 346. 
6 ^'l^l I 7 | bKra-s’is k’ri-sgo. 
8 j£|3j<V , 'EJ ; §’'g T (ad yNas-b’cu lha-k’ag. 9 Nor-bzag. 
