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Sarat Chandra Das — Contributions on Tibet. 
[No. 3, 
The great sixth Buddha Dorje-Chhah 6 presides, 
In spirit with the Divine Mother united. 
In the sages Tilo and Naropa he became incarnate. 
The latter, who kept the door of S'ri Nalendra, 
And the Lochava Sangye-Marpa,— 
These I ask for benediction. 
I, famed far and wide, 
To carry out the word of Marpa of Lha-brag r 
Have come to Tesi to meditate, 
For my own and others’ good. 
And now, 0 heretical Bonpo, comest thou ? 
Let me retort on thee with a repartee 1 
Kankar Tesi of great fame, 
Whose crest with snow is white,— 
So white is Buddha’s faith. 
Mapan, the famed lake of Turquoise,, 
Whose water over water runs,— 
So all matter in vacuity is lost. 
I, Melarepa of great fame, 
An old man who naked lies, 
Am sprung from Wisdom and Remembrance.? 
My lips sing a little song, 
For all Nature at which I look 
Serves me for a book. 
The iron staff that my hands hold, 
Guides me across the ocean of migratory life. 
I rule over mind and light. 
For prodigies and miracles to shew 
1 depend not on earthly gods. 
Tesi, the Prince of the World’s Mounts, 
To Buddhists in general possession yields. 
And to Melarepa chiefly and his votaries. 
Ye heretical Bonpo be useful and good, 
Come and embrace the sacred Dharma 1 
If you do not,—vanquished by miracles, 
Go hence to other and distant lands ! 
Beware of such prodigies in future 1 
He then held lake Mapan on the tip of his thumb, 
® This is the chief Buddha or Dharmakaya of the Gelugpa school. 
7 That is, the virtuo of remembrance of former Buddhas. 
