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the legend of vairocana 25<br />
My spirit is ill, for I have gained no confidence in the eighteen<br />
Sems sde texts.<br />
I thus beg you again for a medicine to complete my studies.” 25<br />
Vairocana is then introduced to numerous other texts. Finally he believes<br />
that he understands the significance of the “Six Thig le” 26 and the “Five<br />
Che ba” 27 among other doctrines connected with Atiyoga. He also studies<br />
other subjects, such as medicine 28 and tantric sàdhana such as Phur pa. 29<br />
•rìsiáha then advises that it is time that he returned to Tibet, because of<br />
the texts which he and Vairocana had taken out from the hidden place,<br />
and that the pa»∂itas of the place are not all that happy. •rìsiáha further<br />
tells him to obtain the feat of “swiftfootedness” (rkang-mgyogs) so that<br />
he will be able to travel fast.<br />
Chapter IX ( f. 66b4–70a4)<br />
Vairocana succeeds in obtaining the magic for travelling fast and then<br />
leaves India for Tibet.<br />
Chapter X ( f. 70a4–76a2)<br />
After the departure of Vairocana, the pa»∂itas in Dhahena who again have<br />
bad dreams gather together and discuss their dreams. They realise that<br />
the cause of bad dreams was the Tibetans who have taken their hidden<br />
texts with them. They plead with their king to pursue Vairocana, but the<br />
latter by this time has already arrived in Li country (Khotan) where he<br />
meets a nun called Tshul-khrims-sgron. After giving her instructions in<br />
Atiyoga, he leaves Li and arrives in Nepal 30 where he spends a month<br />
before setting out for Tibet. He at last arrives in bSam-yas and immediately<br />
25 f. 63a4: bdag ’dra bai ro tsa na lags ste/<br />
gzhan gyi nad de ma mchis te/<br />
thos te ma go rang sems na/<br />
mthong ste ma ’phrad rangs sems na/<br />
myong ste ma tshims rang sems na/<br />
nad gzhi sems sde bco brgyad la/<br />
gdengs ma rnyed pas rang sems na/<br />
de ltar nad kyis brdung (gdung) ba la/<br />
mthar phyin sman cig da bzod (gzod) zhu/<br />
26 On these, see p. 118, n. 55.<br />
27 See pp. 64, n. 18; 114, n. 40.<br />
28 See n. 33.<br />
29 Cf. p. 34.<br />
30 The narration of Vairocana’s trip to Li (Khotan) and Nepal is absent in both MNy<br />
(f. 369–76) and Chos ’byung gter mdzod (Vol. II, f. 38–39), and in PK (f. 122b6), he passes<br />
through Nepal, but not Li, Cf. n. 42.
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