(10) Here endeth the part of the Great Thodol concerned with the setting-face-to-face of the Peaceful [Deities] of the Chonyid Bardo and the setting-face-to-face of the Clear Light of the Chikhai Bardo.

(46) [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:]

(41) Thus is completed the Profound Heart-Drops of the Bardo Doctrine, called The Bardo Thodol, which liberateth embodied beings. [In our Manuscript (but not in the Block-Print), directly following the text of the Bardo Thodol, there are thirteen folios of rituals and prayers (lit., 'paths of good wishes'), which all professional readers of the Bardo Thodol must know, usually from memory, and apply as needed; and they are here rendered into English as follows:]