¹ Text: hphrang (prom htang) : ‘narrow passage’, ‘ambush’.

²‘Cf. the following instructions to the dying person and the prayer from Thi Craft to Know Will to Dit, chap. IV, Comper’s ed. (p. 73) :’ He ought afterwards, if he may, to call on the holy angels, in saying: " Ye spirits of Heaven, Angels much glorious, I beseech you that ye will be assistant [i.e. present] with me that now beginneth to depart, and that ye deliver me mightily from the awaits and fallacies of mine adversaries; and that it please you to receive my soul into your company. The principal, my leader and my good angel, which by our Lord art deputed to be my warder and keeper, I pray and require thee that thou now aid and help me.”’

³ Text: Stug—po—bkod—pahi ehing—khams (pron. Tug—po—kod—pai shing—kham) : ‘Thickly—formed* or ‘Densely—packed Realm’, i.e. the seed of all universal forces and things are densely packed together therein; also called in Tibetan ¹, the realm whence there is no fall, the state leading into Nirvana ; it is pre—eminently the realm of the Buddhas.