(the Practical Application of This Thodol By the Officiant]

Now for the explaining of the 7édo/ itself :

If thou canst gather together a grand offering, offer it in worship of the Trinity. If such cannot be done, then arrange whatever can be gathered together as objects on which thou canst concentrate thy thoughts and mentally create as illimit- able an offering as possible and worship.

Then the ‘Path of Good Wishes Invoking the Aid of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas’! should be recited seven times or thrice.

After that, the ‘Path of Good Wishes Giving Protection from Fear in the Bardo’,) and the ‘Path of Good Wishes for Safe Delivery from the Dangerous Pitfalls of the Bardo’, together with the ‘ Root Words of the Bardo’, are to be read distinctly and with the proper intonation.”

Then this Great 7/ddol is to be read either seven times or

vivid reminder, the setting-face-to-face to Reality while in the

‘Last of all, it is to be known that the prayers that follow may be conveniently said upon a sick man that Jaboureth to his end. And if it is a religious person,

table, as the manner is, then shall be said first the litany, with the psalms and orisons that he used therewith. Afterward, if he live yet, let some man that is about him say the orisons that follow hereafter, as the time and opportunity will suffer. And they may be often rehearsed again to excite the devotion of the sick man—if he have reason and understanding with him.’

‘And if the sick man or woman may, nor can not, say the orisons and prayers

with a loud voice, in changing the words there as they ought to be changed.’

times, if he may, these words that follow.’

Intermediate State; and third, the methods of closing the doors of the womb while in the Intermediate State when seeking rebirth.?