¹Text: Mgon-po-Nag-po (pron. Gon—po—Nag—po) : Skt. Käla—Näth, commonlyknown in India as Mahä—Kåla. At this stage, all ‘the illusory forms of thePeaceful Deities blend and appear as this one deity.

²Text: Gsfriwrje—hichos—kyi—rgyal—po (pron. Shin—jei—cho—kyi—gyal—po) : Skt. Dharma—Rāja + Yama—Rāja. As described here and in the Second Book of the Bardo Thödol (see p. 167^l) this illusory deity commonly assumes many andvaried forms capable of merging into a single form.