¹ Text: risal (pron. sal) : ‘powers’; elsewhere in our text dvang—po (pron. wang—po) being rendered as ‘faculties’.

² In a series of visions, the Knower will become aware of the lot or destiny associated with each womb or place of birth seen: Here again we are reminded of the episode in the tenth book of Plato’s Republic, describing a band of Greek heroes in the Otherworld choosing their bodies for the next incarnation.