The ideas held however by the metaphysical Buddha and the superstitious lama reveal the great distinetion between Buddhism and Lamaism. The lama covers his spiritual abode with grass, flowers and trees and there is the singing of the birds and the humming of the bees. His Bardo is carefully divided up into six states and his place of torment has eight very cold sections and eight very hot sections, and there is a minute arrangement of—subdivisions. Heaven, like a New York skyscraper has 33. storeys, all of which, when pictured by the lama's vivid imagination, are like summer palaces by the sea, What happens is something like mit the "Ales soul left" the body nearly forty days ago and immediately ten lamas and drabas, including her. incarnation son," worked ight and day citing books, prayers sutras, blowing trumpets, beating ongs, clanging cymbals and offering incense, 'The idea was to accumu Tate an enormous amount of virtue fand enable the soul to. Pass safely And peacefully through the six states Bardo, 'The Tibetan word ge-wa" (virtue), but is certainly not Virtue as' we Understand The decessed. Aja has now to "lay on" sin and "lay on" virtue and as She is quite unable to do this herself must somehow be done for her; hence the incessant blowing, clang ing. beating, clapping, reading, sing ing and praying When. the. AJ's soul crossed the stream it suddenly appeared. In the august presences of Shingie, the Lord and Judge of th dead, 'The rosen over which he has Eonteol les in the south, beyond the three peaked mountains; in. this {erribie' abode the soul finds. itself inva place where the rays of the sun and moon have faded and everything. is covered with gloom.
There is no denying the justice and mercy of Shingjet there he sits calm. judgment with a mirror in tne hand and a measure in the other, unite before him hang the fateful scales, "But more damaging. still is a nice tittle pile of black and white Dellets or bullets which tell their dwn tale, Everytime the Aja. spat in'her neighbours face down went
the gave her. neighbour a. cup 2 ie bik pellet ud evergtime Seite "down went a tte whit ballet, "All" very simple and. very plain, the ominous "pile spoke far itself soul had to do was zo upon i To weigh her vice find virtue on the scales was quite Unnecessary, to gaze in. the mirror was equally'so and to use the ™measture "was merely adding insult to Injury. The Aje's soul "passed into the first state of Bardo, namely, the State of Birth, that mother of all evils, which the "weary lama con-feives to be the father of sil trouble.
the lama's philosophy there are four evils, birth, old age, sickness, fud death: and the greatest of thes a irth, because it is the source of the other three. Eliminate birth and humanity's troubler are. automata ly cancelled: 20. teaches the red-robed Tame, Dut how is It to be done?
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