T. ’Dzangs blun zhes bya ba’i mdo

M. Üliger-ün dalai sudur

GDC Mong A1 : 1

ET_339

Beijing xyl., pothi, 61 : 22 cm (52,1 : 17), fol. 1-230v, 31 lines, left margin r: marginal title üliger-ün dalai and Chinese siglum followed by Mongolian and Chinese pagination, left margin v: marginal title üliger-ün dalai and Chinese siglum followed by Chinese pagination. Left side of fol. 1v: illustration of Buddha Śākyamuni, right side: illustration of the six-syllable Avalokita in the tradition of Atiśa. Back cover: illustration in red of the four lokapāla set in a red ornamental frame, from left to right: Virūḍhaka, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Vaiśravaṇa and Virūpākṣa.

Cover title: Üliger-ün dalai-yin sudur orosiba::

Inc. (1v) (1) namo buddhay-a:: (2) namo dharmay-a::

Term. (229v) (19) eldeb üliger-i üjegülügsen sudur (20) tegüs duγulbai::

Col. from fol. 229v21-230v15 identical with the colophon given in the Kanjur. From fol. 230v16 onwards follow additional verses:

(16) üiles-ün ači ür-e arγadal ügei egün-i: (17) üjeged sača dotoraban oroγul-un čidaju: (18) ürgüljide tasural ügei kičiyen üiledčü: (19) ülemji amuγulang γajar-a törökü boltuγai:: (20) yegüdkel ügei čoγ jibqulang-tu bey-e-yin (21) öljei qutuγ orosituγai: yiren üyes-tü (22) jarliγ-un öljei qutuγ orosituγai: kijaγar (23)-ača qaγačaγsan gkir ügei sedkil-ün öljei (24) qutuγ orosituγai: ilaγuγsad-un bey-e (25) jarliγ sedkil-ün öljei qutuγ orosituγai:: (26) ma gha la:: (27) dayičing ulus-un engke amuγulang-un (28) tabin γurbaduγar on: köke morin (29) jil-ün namur-un dumdadu sara-yin (30) sine-yin naiman sayin (31) edür-e bičijü dügürgebei::

“Written on the auspicious eighth day of the new moon of the middle autumn month of the Blue-Horse year of Engke Amuγulang of the Great Qing” (1714). The verses are identical with the verses in the colophon of the xyl. described by Heissig/Sagaster 1961, No. 283, with the exception of the line ürgüljide tasural ügei kičiyen üiledčü which is included here.

The content is divided into 12 volumes (bölög) and 52 chapters (jüil). The titles of the chapters are identical with the ones given by Heissig/Sagaster 1961. Volume XII is wrongly numbered arban γutaγar bölög (fol. 207r26). The fol. numbers correspond exactly to the fol. numbers of the xyl. described by Heissig/Sagaster (ibid.).¹