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who admitted the precious image into communion, and at the same 
time a letter arrived from the reverend Manjucrl and sBa-bal-ch’e- 
s’i-pa-gan-ja. 
When the precious image (of Avalokita) was removed from Lha- 
Zdan to Potala, all the clergy and populace gave large offerings, which 
I myself witnessed. Even the gods gave offerings, as was seen in vis- 
sions. Flowers rained (from heaven) and rainbows filled the sky with 
splendid rays. The image of the precious one (Avalokita) was placed 
in the palace of ‘the entirety victorious one on all sides’ 1 so as to he 
the lord of all the images and it was attended ‘ by the noble burning 
ocean of virtue.’ g 
This catalogue, mirroring clear as crystal, the transformed Vihdra 
of Lha-Man, the Vajrasana encircled by snowy mountains, has been 
written by Nag-dbaij-51o-zag-?"gya“mts’o, the fearless one armed with 
the doctrine, 8 who is descended from the race of Zahor and once 
(in a former birth) the minister of Pa’g-mo-grub-pa the king of 
g'btam-&skos’ and (formerly) the great Sah-la-pa of the Indian royal 
race, at the palace of (fGah-Zdan-p’yogs-t’ams-ca’d-las-rnam-par-rgyal-ba, 
at the request of the stewards in charge of the images of the Vihdra , 
at the beginning of the year of Sa-kyog, in the Chinese court, on a most 
auspicious day of the first glorious part of the course of the zodiac 
around the constellation Ne, 4 Vagendras’seyo ! Maijgalarh. 
1 I P’ Yogs t’ams-c’ad las rnams-par- 
rgyal-ba. This is the Chapel-royal of the Grand Lama. 
dGe-mts’an rgya-mts’oi dpal- 
kun-tu ’bar-ba. 
igs-med go-ch’a t’ub-bstan laiytsQ. 
