The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism, with mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and its relation to Indian Buddhism / by L. Austine Waddell.

  • Laurence Waddell
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism, with mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and its relation to Indian Buddhism / by L. Austine Waddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Arrangement of the Banquet to the whole Assembly of Gods and Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Lama’s Musical Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 The Eucharist of Lamaism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 A Guilt-offering at Tankar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Geomantic Trigrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 Astrological Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 Symbols of Days of the Week . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 Lotus Dice-board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 Re-birth Dice-board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 A Black-hat Sorcerer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Emblems to Bar the Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Exorciser’s Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Summoning the Hungry Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 The Effigy of the Dead Person . . . . . . . . . . 496 Thunder-Dragons of the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Some Actors in the Mystic Play .. .. .. .. .. .. 515 Demons of Mara in Gandhara Sculptures. . .. .. .. .. 517 Red Tiger-Devil of the Bon . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Tiger Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Diagram of Royal Monastery at Teng-gye-ling . . . . . . . . 522 Demon-Maskers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Death-Skeleton Masker . . . . . , . . . . . . . . 525 Devils Fleeing from the Buddhist Saints . . . . . . . . . . 526 Dance of the Death Demons in Hamis Monastery . . . . . . 528 The Religious King-Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530 Some Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536 Lion-Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539 Actors of the Visvantara Play . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 Some Actors of the Play of Nah-sa . . . . . . . . . . 565 Lama receiving homage from Children .. .. .. .. .. 566 Tibetan Laymen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 569 Charm to bind Disease-Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 Amulets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571 A Tibetan Lady with Amulets , . . . . . . . . . . . 572 Hand-Prayer-“ Wheels”.573