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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Appendix: The Colophon
Tibetan Buddhist trans. Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (ed. W. Y. Evans-Wentz) • c. 8th century CE (translation 1927)
46.1
[The Manuscript concludes with the following seven verses by the lama or scribe who compiled it, but he — faithful to the old lamaic teaching that the human personality should be self-abased and the Scriptures alone exalted before the gaze of the sentient creatures — has not recorded his name:]
46.2-46.3
Through the perfectly pure intention of mine In the making of this, through the root of the merits thereof, [May] those protectorless sentient beings, Mothers, [Be] placed in the State of the Buddha: Let the radiant glory of auspiciousness come to illuminate the world; Let this Book be auspicious; Let virtue and goodness be perfected in every way.