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L. A. Waddell —Description of Lhfiisa Cathedral. [No. 3, 
Tlie virtue accruing from hearing (about this temple), is such that 
a beast hearing of it, even in a dream, shall lose its bestial body (in its 
next rebirth) and so get nearer to the path of deliverance. If a god 
or man hears of it, he shall be delivered. 
The virtue of merely remembering 1 it is such that anyone who 
recollects the good qualities of the tutelaries, becomes cleansed from 
the (accumulated) defilement of five thousand kaljpas , and obtains 
endurance over human difficulties. 
And anyone who circumambulates this temple with a pure heart, 
sows seed which shall procure him the grades of the Dasabhumi , 2 and 
‘the omniscient wisdom.’ 3 Even the revered (Indian) land of the 
Vajrasana (Buddh-Gaya) and the shrine of the hidden treasure of the 
Dakinls in Udyana are not more important than this (temple). 
And anyone who comes and sees this temple and makes offerings here 
will find that it is equivalent to a pilgrimage and offerings to these 
famous (Indian) shrines. 
The virtue of repairing the outside or interior of the temple, and 
of offering golden water, lamps, food for the gods, clothes, hangings 
and tapestry—(the virtue of this) is great beyond description. Such 
persons certainly shall be holy lords of men and gods, and shall ulti¬ 
mately attain the supreme Mahabodhi. 
The (image of) the chief god ‘Munindra’ was brought to this 
snowy land from China by rGya-ch’en-dpag-yas-legs-pa, and was placed 
in the bewitching 4 Ra-mo-ch’e. The golden image of (^akya Muni, 
obtained from China as a (dowry) offering, was formerly kept in the 
Ra-mo-ch’e temple, but during the war (Tibeto-Chinese) it was removed 
to Lno-sgo-me-loq-c’an (for safety). Lately it was transferred to the 
central building of the temple of Ra-sa, while (the image of) Mi-fokyod- 
rdo-rje was placed in its stead at Ra-mo-ch’e. 
The Tibetan king (Sroq-frtsan) on sending his minister mGar and 
other ambassadors to Nepal to invite the Nepalese princess K’rirttsun 
an incarnation of the Lady (goddess) Khro-^ner-c’an, to be his wife, 
she prayed her father, the king of Nepal, saying, u O father, pray let me 
have fakya Muni as your (dowry-) gift, in order that he may guide me 
1 I ditan-pa. 
2 1 Sa-bc’u. The ten stages in tlie passage of a B5dkisat to the 
Buddha-ship. 
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Kun-mk’en-pai s’es. 
4 iTWb 1 ! I rGya-btab; to pronounce or cast a spell. The College of necro¬ 
mancy at Lhasa. 
