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For these reasons ifc is believed that the rest of the Ninma school is 
extremely pure. But latterly some persons, calling themselves ^Ter-ston 
to gain notoriety and to be called sages, mixed many spurious and false 
theories with the ancient ones. Those pretended yTer-stons not agreeing 
among themselves, out of envy and enmity to each other, enjoined many 
obscene observances under the garb of religion. They gave out that the 
Tantras prescribed unrestrained libertinism as the easiest and surest mode 
of salvation. Female modesty was no consideration to them at all. For a 
time, by their influence, the teachings of the Sutras (Amdo-scriptures) were 
set aside in preference to those diabolical Tantras which were considered to 
be the direct means of Nirvana. For this reason the monks gave up 
taking the vows of celebacy and moral discipline. The laws of Dulva 
were entirely neglected. Particularly after Lan-darma’s persecution of 
the Buddhists of Tibet, some Tantriks, in the heat of debauchery and 
drunkenness, had composed many spurious Tantras, putting into writing 
the ravings of their intoxicated brains. Again during the revival of Bud¬ 
dhism, when the Sarma system of schools was about to be diffused in Tibet, 
certain Tantriks composed several works in which many strange elements 
were introduced. In them the Thin-rje-chhenpo of the wNinmapas, 
the Brahma Tantras of the Brahmans, the mysticism of the Bonpo were 
mixed together, in consequence of which those works no longer resembled 
the ancient works on Tantras. From these sprung the ceremonies of 
Khregs chhoc? and Mun khric/, &c. Those who practised the magical sorceries 
founded on them were notorious for their arrogance and wicked impositions. 
When their wickedness was exposed by the great Reformer, the two 
Ninma Lamas, named Pesna Linpa and Shakya-mchhog eDan, jointly 
conspiring against him, gave out to the world that Tsonkhapa was a real 
demon incarnate, whose sworn mission was the working of the downfall 
of Buddhism in Tibet. 
The same two Lamas also wrote a volume of about 500 leaves about 
the reformations, charging Tsonkhapa with many kinds of blasphemies. 
They even went so far as to say that the crown which he put on the 
image of Jovo (Lord) S'akya Muni, was rivetted on its head with copper- 
nails, that the flowers that were daily showered on it fell owing to the 
sorceries, as so many thorns. They predicted that on account of these 
impious acts, the Buddhist religion was destined to collapse after 500 years 
from that date, and that shortly the sun, moon and stars would fall a 
hundred (Tibetan) miles below their ordinary paths. To this work they 
gave sanctity by declaring that it was discovered to be a book of ancient 
prophecy, classed under Ninma Terma scripture. Many right-thinking 
and honest Ninma Lamas question the validity of this work, although 
the uninformed and the ignorant Ninma followers believe in its pre- 
