György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
bâtura dörbön äumnuSi (daruji) [red:] burxan bobcu boltuyai [black:] • : • sarvâ mam-ghalâm <r [red:] om ma-ni [black:] pad-me [red:] hum : (five times, five lines). Cf. Luwsanbaldan, Tod üseg, p. 127, no. 34: Sükavadi-du xubilun törökü irbl, Zaya pandita's translation for Aőitu corji; a Mongol version in PLB, p. 49 and no. 145. Mong. 159 Nâgârjuna's Benediction: The Stairs Oirat manuscript, late 19th century pothi of Russian paper (with relief-mark inscribed "Fabriki Jates No. [?]", 17.8 : 7.4 cm (text in double-lined red frame of varying size, e.g., 14.7 : 5.7 cm); calamus, black and red ink; Oirat pagination with Tibetan numbers on the left margin (beyond frame); 15 lines/page. F. 12 is missing. From Rinchen. Title on the cover (written black, lengthwise in double-lined red frame, 14.3 : 1.7 cm, with an empty "box" on each side): O Na yan-janayin irdi Satu üye kemekü orosiboi • "[Here] is Nâgârjuna's benediction called The Stairs". Cf. also the title in the colophon. Inc. f. la [= cover verso, in double frame]: [red:] dedü yurban erdenidü milrgümüi: [black:] ordilong-du orőixu xamuq töröl-dü : nomdu külicenggüi olto=lo :, etc. End, f. 14a4— 13: ünen yér iröl ali talbiq=san ötör büttlkü [red:] boltuyai [black and red:] • : • [red:] O Sükevadiyin oron-du [black:] töröl abxui iröl dédü oroni öüde néqői kemekü öüni: [red:] Rjing-cayin [black:] süme=dü mergen [red:] Jongapa [!] [black:] nayirou=lbai [black and red:] • : • [black:] sarvâ mam-gha-lam [black and red:] • This "Benediction for Rebirth in Sukhâvatî called The Opener of the Gate of the Supreme Land" is said to be compiled by to Con-kha-pa in the monastery of Rjing-ca [= Rjin-phyi, see R. Kaschewsky, Das Leben des lamaistischen Heiligen, vol. 1, p. 43, etc.]. Cf. no. 83 in the list of the Oirat Zaya pandita's translation in his biography by Ratnabhadra (e.g., in Damdinsürüng's CSM XIV, p. 330, with the Tibetan title given Mgon-po Klu-sgrub-kyi lhag-pa'ismon-lam Them-skams-ma). Cf. Taube, THB no. 1677; Heissig-Sagaster, MHBL no. 292 (a bilingual Peking blockprint). See also here Mong. 158. Mong. 160 Offering to the White Old Man Manuscript, ?19th century concertina of Chinese muutuu, a 80 cm long sheet made of two pieces of paper, the 7 folds form 8 "pages" (24.7 : 10 cm) written on one side only and along the short side of the rectangle, no pagination, calamus, black ink, 22 (9 cm long) lines/page, colourless ruling. Vulgar orthography with numerous diacriticals (N, Q, the latter also as final y); Manchu Y; Uigur S for final. 241
