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A potter with his wheel making’ pots — Du-che* or 4 impressing 
or con-joining -f action ’ (Skt. Saiiskdra), showing the fruits 
of worldly labour are perishable objects—action being mis¬ 
directed as a result of ignorance. The Sanskrit equivalent 
Sahskdra is usually translated as 4 tendencies or inherited in¬ 
stincts ’ ; but neither the pictorial metaphor nor the Tibetan 
equivalent easily admit of this interpretation. 
III. A monkey eating fruit = Navi-shef or ‘entire-knowledge’ (Skt. 
Vijndna) of good and evil fruits—tasting every fruit in 
the sense of a roving libertine, thus engendering Conscious¬ 
ness. 
IV. A dying man with a physician feeling his pulse = Ming-zug% 
or 4 name + body ’ or form (Skt. Ndma-rupa ), i. e , individual 
being as the result of consciousness. Its fleeting character 
is shown by the individual being about to lose his name and 
personality in death. In the 4 new ’ style the picture shows 
passengers being ferried across the ocean of life or indivi¬ 
dual existence. 
V. An empty house = Kye-chhed§ literally 4 birth brothers,’ or the 
5 mortal sense-organs and volition (Skt. Shaddyatana) , illus¬ 
trating the organs and will which are the 4 result ’ of in¬ 
dividual being;—the hollowness of these is typified. 
VI. A pair of lovers kissing = Peg-pa or 4 contact,’ (Skt Sparsa') 
which results from the exercise of the sense organs and the 
will. In the 4 new ’ style this is also represented as a man 
ploughing with a pair of oxen, or manually tilling a field. 
VII. An arrow entering a man’s eye = Tshor-wa or ‘perception’ 
(Skt. Vedand ), the result of contact. It includes emotions as 
well as physical sensation and pain. 
VIII. A man drinking wine = Sre-pa|| or 4 desire for more ’ (Skt. 
Trishnd) which results from the exercise of the perceptive 
faculty. 
IX. A man gathering a large basketful of fruit = Len-pa or 4 taking’ 
(Skt. Updddna )— : grasping indulgence in worldly matters 
and amassing of worldly wealth, as the result of desire. 
X. A pregnant woman = Snd-pa or ‘continuity of existence’ or 
reproduction (Skt. Bhava ), as the result of the clinging to 
worldly life and wealth. 
XI. A mother in child-birth = Kye-wa^ or ‘birth’ (Skt. Jdti) as 
a result of No. X. 
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