The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation:Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind by Evans-Wentz W. Y. & Jung C. G. & Lopez Donald S

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

THE GOD OF THE CORPSES

Thence he proceeded to the ‘Cool Sandal-Wood’ Cemetery,4about ten miles from Bōdh-Gayā. Using corpses for his seat, he remained there five years practising meditation. His food was the food offered to the dead1 and his clothing the shrouds of the corpses. People called him ‘The God of the Corpses’. It was here that he first expounded, to the ākinī, the nine progressive steps on the Great Path.

When a famine occurred, a multitude of corpses was deposited in the cemetery without food or shrouds; and Padma, as we shall now call the Great Guru, transmuted the flesh of the corpses into pure food and subsisted upon it, and the skin of the corpses served him for raiment. He subjugated the spiritual beings inhabiting the cemetery and made them his servitors.

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