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Antiquities of Indian Tibet : vol.2 |
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(A MS.) II. Account of the Origin of Tibet
Though, generally speaking, all constituents in themselves are altogether pure
beyond the limits of speech, yet, on account of the ripening or not ripening of the
succession of souls, the heavens are wholly enveloped in the delusion of
subjective illusion, and the world contained therein appears in manifold forms
and colours, more than we can grasp with our thoughts. According to the Mdzod
(Koša):
There were diffused ten millions and one hundred distinct suns and moons,
And the 1,000 millions of gardens of lotuses, each consisting of four continents,
Which are all surrounded by the circular rampart (cakravāla),
All these appear as enumerators of Sag-thub's (Buddha's) name.
How in the almsbowl in the hand of the holy Rnam-par-snañ-mdzad (Vairocana),
[who is also called] Gañs-chen-mtsho-rgyal, this world of three thousand originated,
although variously related in the traditions, if we summarize it, following the Yon-
tan-bsdud-pa: The ether is the receptacle of the air; that (the air) the receptacle p. 20.
of the mass of waters; that (the water) the receptacle of the great earth; that (the
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