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L. A. Waddell — Description of Lhasa Cathedral. [No. 3, 
The higher ranks of tho people, formerly paid much respect, to the 
Vihctra but latterly not so. On this account tho Jinn, Tsog-k’a-pa ordered 
sNe-f/dog-gog-mo-ch’an-po-rZ&ag-^rugs-pa-rgyal-pa-rgyal-rats’an to res¬ 
tore this Vihdra , the Vdjrdsana of Tibet, to its pristine splendour and 
adoration. The governor caused certain officials to carry out these 
orders. 
At the feast of the show of Buddha’s miracles, 1 * held on the 
fifteenth day of the first month, great honor is paid to the assembly 
(of Lamas) on the Rwa-chan benches, 8 food is offered the gods, and 
about 500 lamps, and robes are given to each of the images of import¬ 
ance, and golden-water 5 and vast offerings of the best kind and of 
goods and men are made unto the great Lord (Jo-wo). * * * * 
A golden crown is given to the great precious Lords and a silver one 
to ‘the great pitying one.’ Also to the Lord a silver begging-bowl and 
a horse-headed silver wine-cup 4 ' extracted from a hidden treasury. 
Also stones from the hidden treasury of Nag-ser-sman are brought up 
and set upon the pavement instead of the old ones in the courtyard and 
in the circular road. ***** There was no one who equalled the Jina 
Tsog-ka-pa in exertions at turning ‘ the noble wheel of the Law,’ at 
Llia-Zdan (Lhasa) during the later times. 
Again, spYan-sga-cho’s-kyi-grags-pa poured praises on the throne 
of the Lord, the omniscient &Sod-nams-rgya-mts’o gave a golden tapes¬ 
try 5 (as a canopy) for the Lord’s head. Yon-ten-cli’os-kyi-rgyal-po 
offered a silver mandala made by sTog-rwa-c’an-pa, and a golden one by 
his son Buddha-s’rL The re-incarnated Dug-pa 6 (saint) IJag-d&ag- 
nor-bu replaced (in a vertical position) the slanting image of ‘the 
great pitying one,’ the self-sprung pentad. ’Gali-z’ig-rag-s’ugs remo¬ 
delled ’K’rogs-’grro-rgyal which was said to be broken to pieces. The 
reverend Ch’os-rje of sTag-lug and sKyid-s’og-sde-pa-5&ra-s’is-rab-t’un- 
mog remodelled the loose golden crown of the Lord (Jo-wo). The 
omniscient Yog-ten-rgya-mts’o renewed the back of the Lord’s throne. 
1 <&Q T Q^QT i: T^ 3 rM c Y.SN’& 3 i | Ch’o ’P-rul tstan-pai-dus ch’en. See my 
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Buddh. of Tibet , p. 503. 
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8 yffasYiY^VS 3 ! I dGe-’dun k’ri-rwa chan. These benches are close to the 
Jo-wo image ; See my Buddh. of Tibet. 
3 Water into which pieces of gold are put. 
4 Though this cup is said to smell of wine no wine is now ostensibly put into it. 
5 I tLa-tre. 
6 
1 ’tltug-pa, a sect of Lamas, 
