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1895.] L. A, Waddell— Description of Lhasa Cathedral . 
He also painted ‘ tlie ten deeds’ 1 (of Buddha) on the hack curtain, the 
sixteen Sthavira on the middle ‘ radiant circle ’ 2 with molten silver, 
and the series of the Lamas of the illustrious dGah-Zdan 3 with beaten 
gold in the inmost radiant circle, intersecting it with various gay 
colored jewels. The king 6Sod-nams-rab-Z>?-ten of ’Jaqs-sa-t’am built a 
two storied house with a Chinese roof of silver. ****** 
The government of the palace of d’Ga7i-ldan renewed the gallery 4 * and 
repaired the crown, and replaced both the outer and inner receptacles 
for the offerings also the hangings, canopies and mandalas. 
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The six great Mongolian hordes with all the chief and petty lords, 
king Ju-nai), the chieftain Huq-t’ai-ji and the king K’ar-k’a-t’u-s’ab-t’u, 
collected about one thousand silver pieces and made a votive mandala of 
them. 
Innumerable instances also have happened of rich persons of the 
upper and lower mho provinces who have offered golden votive bowls 
(as lamps), especially the chief </Yai). 
The palace of c7Gah-7dan also added a new golden ornament above 
* the four brothers Maitreya ’ 6 * and regilded the lords of the fans, 6 and 
the upper part of the Naga king. Queen Da-las-gun-ji gave many and 
frequent gifts to the Vihara and to the priests. 
In short, every one high or low, from the vast middle land of 
Magadha and Vajrdsana , and from the great land of Vaigdlil to this 
side of the inconceivably great ocean gave offerings according to their 
means, so that it is impossible to describe all in detail. 
The virtue accruing to any one who merely sees this Vihara and its 
contents is thus described by the king (Sroq-frtsan) himself. “ Once 
seeing it, closes the door of hell against that person. To see it twice, 
the person shall acquire the form of a man or god (in next rebirth) 
and ultimately obtain deliverance. To see it thrice overcomes ‘ the 
three poisons’ 8 and gains ‘ the three bodies ’ (Tri-kaya).” 
1 wgyns i ?wdsad-&’cu, see Csoma’s Analysis in Asiatic Researches XX, 
pp. 286, &e. 
2 | ’Od-skor. 3 I dPal-ri-bo dgah-Zdan. 
4 | mDah-yab. & | &Yams-pa mch’ed-bz’i. 
6 zm&iwq*! | wijalx-gryabs, the ox-tail fly-whisks. 
7 | Yaqs-pa. 
8 The Trividhagni (Dug-gsum), a sort of triad of original sin —Lust, Ill-will and 
Stupidity, (Rdga, Dvesa., Moha) somewhat analogous to our l)ovil, the world and the 
flesh. See my Buddli. of Tibet, p. 115. 
