Existential Atlas

[the Eleventh Day]

Buddhism·20 of 54·Source ↗

Yet, though set face-to-face thus, if, through power of evil propensities, terror and awe being produced, not recognizing them to be tutelary deities, one flee from them, then, on the Eleventh Day, the blood-drinking Lotus Order will come to receive one. Thereupon the setting-face-to-face is, calling the deceased by name, thus:

O nobly-born, on the Eleventh Day, the blood-drinking

the left, blue, the central, darkish red; in the first of the right of the six hands holding a lotus, in the middle [one], a trident- staff, in the last, a club; in the first of the left [hands], a bell,

last, a small drum; his body embraced by the Mother Padma- Krotishaurima, her right hand clinging to his neck, her left offering to his mouth a red shell [full of blood]; the Father

and Mother in union; will issue from the western quarter of thy brain and come to shine upon thee. Fear that not. Be

tutelary deity, be not afraid. In reality they are the Father- Mother Bhagavan Amitabha. Believe in them. Concomitantly with recognition, liberation will come. Through such acknow- ledging, recognizing them to be tutelary deities, in at-one- ment thou wilt merge [into them], and obtain Buddhahood.

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Contents of The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz)