György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Red print icons on ff. la-2a, in the two side boxes of the frame: grub-mchog rje-bcun Ti-lopa; ... pan-chen Na-ro; skyes-mchog Mar-pa lo-ca-ba; [rje-bcun] Mi-la [ras-pa?]. Title in long rectangular, double-lined frame on cover: Yogajaris-ип/ erketü/ degedü/ getülgegéi/ Mila/ rasba-yin/ rnam-tar/ nirvan/ kiged/ qamuy-i / ayiladuy=ői=yin mör-i üjegü=lügsen/ kemegdekü/ orosiba • "[Here] is The Biography of Mi-la ras-pa, the Powerful of the Yogâcaryas, the Supreme Redeemer, [the book] called 'That Which Showed the Path of the Nirvána and of the Omniscient'." Title on f. 222b3: Milarasba-yin toyufi "Mi-la ras-pa's Story"; cf. also f. 221a, below. Inc. f. la: namő guru : iineger nom-un bey-e tngri-yin mör-ün mungqay usun barayaycid-un : ündüsün=ece qayaöaysan töb-tü öngge bey-e-dür, etc. Ff. 63,218: hand-written. F. 219al0-15: oytaryui-luy-a saca amitan-i tusalaysan yisüdüger jokiyangyui bolai • : • idam daginis ber yivakirid [=viyanggirid] öggügsen Sabin ar kemebesü, etc. End, f. 221a9, followed by the colophon: törölki-ten-ü degedü manglai Mila miŞiyegci vcir kemekü-yin toyuji-yi : tonilqu ba qamuy-i medegci-yin yajaréi..., etc., cf. Mong. 141. Cf. also Heissig-Sagaster, MHBL no. 490. Mong. 125 Potopa's Upadesa, Teaching of Parables (Üliger-ün nom) Peking blockprint of 1720, PLB no. 56, pothi of Chinese paper (of several layers), 52.2 : 11.3 (48.8 : 8.5) cm, Mongol and Chinese pagination in the left and the right "ears" of the frame, recto and verso (degedü; Putijing shang, door-a-du; Putijingxia; but f. la, cover verso, has Wenzhu)\ 31 lines/page, black print, diacriticals scarcely used; medial /= Ğ, Uigur Z as final s. With Tibetan interlinear glosses. Title printed black in rectangular, double-lined frame (19.5 : 4.68 cm) on yellow cover, Mongolian and Chinese: O Bő-dőu-a-yin/ ubadis/ Üliger-ün/ nom/ erdeni / co ycala ysan/ kemekü/ orosiba • Da Putijing "[Here] is the [book] called Po-to-pa's Upadesa to the Teaching of Parables, the Jewels Piled". The same title appears in the end and the colophon (see below, f. 335b). Further in the colophon (see f. 336b): "The Hundred Thousandfold Explanation of the Teaching of Parables, [the book of] the Jewels Piled." Inc. f. la (nigen degedü = cover verso, 17 lines of small characters in a complex frame): 181
