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L. A. Waddell — Description of Lhasa Cathedral. 
[No. 3, 
Its real name is c the Red bill ’ 1 or Potala. The splendour of the 
palace on this hill was likened by the Nepalese princess ‘ K?ri-fctsun ’ to 
that of the city of the ten-headed rahshas of Larjka. There are 999 forts 
at the foot of the hill and 1001 on the summit, and in the centre 
is the palace of the king of Tibet. 
In the Vihdra (of Potala) is some rice consecrated by the king 
(Srog-6tsan) which confers great blessings, on account of the Arya 
Lokesvara having at that time appeared before the king in a dancing 
posture. Here are also images of the Chinese and Nepalese princesses, 
prince Gug-ri-guij-&tsan, the ministers raGar and T’on-mi, and Mahjugri , 
the six-faced Yama on the pillar. These blessed objects were consecrated 
by Buddha Kasyapa. 
There are also images of £ the six-armed (fiend),’ 2 the tutelary 
of the Yogi K’yuij-po, s the eleven-headed (Avalokita), Hayagriva Z’aq- 
rniij-me-t’ub-ma which belonged to the king and his two wives, T’aij-sku- 
rwa-sgreij-me-t’ub-ma of Avalokita. The king (Sroip&tsan) sent the 
monk A-ka-ra-ma-ti to Nepal. He arrived in a dense forest between 
India and Nepal where he saw a sandal- tree emitting rays of light 
in the ten directions. This tree he cut into four pieces which turned 
into the four brothers, Arya ‘ pawati,’ Arya ‘d&U-k’aij,’ Arya ‘’Jah- 
ma-li,’ and Arya Lok^varat, the last of whom was invited to become the 
receiver of gifts 4 from the Tibetan king. He therefore came (to Tibet) 
and abode at ‘ the red hill, and at a later time he was invited by sKyid- 
s’od-sde-pa-yyul-rygal-nor-bu to ^Z’is-ka-6rag-dkar. 
Long afterwards, Se-ch’en-t’ai-ji of T’u-med, invaded many villages 
in Tibet. At that time the troops of the heaven-appointed religious 
king 6sTan-’dsin, of great fortune, were victorious ; and brought under 
their power all the kingdoms of Tibet (proper) and Great Tibet 
(Eastern Tibet). When dGah-Zdan and the religious king taTan-’dsin 
held the Government, the receiver of gifts, the sun (the Dalai Lama), 
and the moon (the king) ruled over the entire country, and the prophecy 
of the great Guru Padmasambhava, the sage of O-di-ya-na (Udyana), 
was fulfilled. The land was blessed by the virtue of the Kdlacakra 
(doctrine) on the glorious day of the Nag-pa caitya in the beginning 
of the year of the Kdlacakra, in the female wood-fowl year of Sa-kyoq. 
And the foundation of the great palace (of Potala) was laid in the 
first festival of the middle month of Za-ga (Baisak), and under most 
illustrious auspices. The queen Da-las-gun-ji with her wonted zeal and 
perseverance brought from a foreign country the queen ?nTs’o-k’ri-s’ag, 
1 i dMar-pori. 2 gffpgfipq | p’y a g-drug-pa. 
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