The Tibetan Book of the Dead:Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by Evans-Wentz W. Y. & Lopez Donald S

Author:Evans-Wentz, W. Y. & Lopez, Donald S. [Evans-Wentz, W. Y.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-09-28T03:00:00+00:00

[THE SEVENTH DAY]

On the Seventh Day, the Knowledge—Holding Deities, from the holy paradise realms, come to receive one. Simultaneously, the pathway to the brute world, produced by the obscuring passion, stupidity, also cometh to receive one.3 The setting—face—to—face at that time is, calling the deceased by name, thus :

O nobly—born, listen undistractedly. On the Seventh Daythe vari—coloured radiance of the purified propensities will cometo shine. Simultaneously, the Knowledge—Holding Deities,1from the holy paradise realms, will come to receive one.

From the centre of the Circle [or Mandala], enhaloed in radiance of rainbow light, the supreme Knowledge—Holding [Deity], the Lotus Lord of Dance, the Supreme Knowledge—Holder Who Ripens Karmic Fruits, radiant with all the five colours, embraced by the [Divine] Mother, the Red Dakini* [he] holding a crescent knife and a skull [filled] with blood,3dancing and making the mudrā of fascination,4 [with his right hand held] aloft, will come to shine.

To the east of that Circle, the deity called the Earth—Abiding Knowledge—Holder, white of colour, with radiant smiling countenance, embraced by the White Dåkini, the [Divine] Mother, [he] holding a crescent knife and a skull [filled] with blood, dancing and making the mudrā of fascination, [with his right hand held] aloft, will come to shine.

To the south of that Circle, the Knowledge—Holding Deity called [He] Having Power Over Duration of Life, ydlow in colour, smiling and radiant, embraced by the Yellow Dåkinl, the [Divine] Mother, [he] holding a crescent knife and a skull

[filled] with blood, dancing and making the mildra of fascination, [with his right hand held] aloft, will come to shine.

To the west of that Circle, the deity called the Knowledge—Holding Deity of the Great Symbol,1 red of colour, smiling and radiant, embraced by the Red Dākini the [Divine] Mother, [he] holding a crescent—knife and a skull [filled] with blood, dancing and making the mndrā of fascination, [with his right hand held] aloft, will come to shine.

To the north of that Circle, the deity called the Self—Evolved Knowledge—Holder, green of colour, with a half—angry, half—smiling radiant countenance, embraced by the Green Dåkini, the [Divine] Mother, [he] holding a crescent—knife and a skull [filled] with blood, dancing and making the mudrā of fascination, [with his right hand held] aloft, will come to shine.

In the Outer Circle, round about these Knowledge—Holders, innumerable bands of dåkinis, — dåkinis of the eight places of cremation, dåkinis of the four classes, dåkinis of the three abodes, dåkinis of the thirty holy—places and of the twenty—four places of pilgrimage,2—heroes, heroines, celestial warriors, and faith—protecting deities, male and female, each bedecked with the six bone—ornaments, having drums and thigh—bone trumpets, skull—timbrels, banners of gigantic human[—like] hides,3 human—hide canopies, human—hide bannerettes, fumes of human—fat incense, and innumerable [other] kinds of musical instruments, filling [with music] the whole world—systems and causing them to vibrate, to quake and tremble with sounds so mighty as to daze one’s brain, and dancing various measures, will come to receive the faithful and punish the unfaithful.4

O nobly—born, five—coloured radiances, of the Wisdom of the Simultaneously—Born,1 which

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