György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Mong. 25 The Prayer of áambhala Typeset print, concertina, published by the Mongyol Bicig-ün Qoriy-a in 1925. An approximately 85 cm long sheet of paper folded forming 10 fields of 19.6 : 8.5 (17.4 : 7) cm = 8 unnumbered pages + front and back covers printed on one side only. Text in double frame, in black; 15 lines/page. Orthography with diacriticals for N and Г before vowels, -"Y- for -'YY-, Manchu Y, final S. Title in black on the cover (decorated with a blue frame with dragon-and-pearl ornament enclosing a field of yellow patterns around a red meander of leaves, with the portrait of a Buddhist high priest, perhaps of the Panchen Lama, a black-and-white photo printed on a separate piece of paper and glued to the cover): Şambala-yin irüger [portrait] sudur orosibai . Inc. [p. 1]: blam-a-dur mürgümü • tegüs coy tu angqan burqan-u egllride-yin yeke yosun-i delgeregülün jokiyayci §ambala-yin oron-u getülgegci boyda blam-a-tan-a jalbara[=i]ysanbar[=iyar] . minu tlnen üges-ün iniger-i bütügen jokiy-a . End, [p. 7]: qotala tegüs bey-e-yi ilete toyulquy-yin caytu . namayi cu burqan-u qutuy-yi olyon soyurq-a • degedü boyda blam-a-tan ber iregedüi caytu . Galawa-yin balyad yeke kürdü-tü . Raybu qayan bolqu teres-üd-ün ündüsün-i tasulaqu caytu . namayi cu nökör-ün terigün-dür tatan soyurq-a • mangğalam • [in smaller type:] Şambala-yin irüger tegüsbe . Col., [p. 8]: kökegcin üker jilün ilegüü dörben sar-a-yin arban tabun-a [printed drawing of the eight jewels in flames on lotus; yang-yin symbol] Neyislel qota-yin Mongyol Bicig-ün Qoriy-a-aca angqan darumallabai The back has the same blue and yellow frame as on the front cover; in a blue line inner frame, the Chinese name of the publishers and the copyright warning is printed: Beijing Mengwen shushe chuban / gebu li'an fanyin bi jue. Mongol version of the Tibetan text written by the 6th Pan-chen Blo-bzan dpal-ldan ye-Ses (Lubsangbaldan iSi) in the Manchu capital in the years of the Qianlong period. Edition different of Heissig-Sagaster, MHBL no. 483, see also J. Krueger in: Collectanea mongolica, p. 113, no. 14. 56
