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The ritual of realizing or making a mandala

    I prostrate myself before all Enlightened Ones and bodhisattvas!
    First, purify a large or small mandala. While doing so, place edible oil. When you have done so, take twenty measures of dung. Take also twenty measures of water. Also [take] three: milk, curd, and first butter. Even if you squeeze the dung first, squeeze it with the resulting liquid of the cow. Then sift it through a sieve.
    Then, when you have combined all this, for two or three days wrap it all in cotton. And also until two times for two days, anoint it consistently for seven days. Then also anoint your hands with oil. This is also explained as lack of stability.
    The ritual for realizing steadiness is as follows. Anoint the corners of the mandala with the color indigo. If radiance appears, it is clarified as good.
    Then with the help of sarjararaja [sarja rarja] and whisked oil, make the mandala smudge. If you do so, it will become like a mirror or a crystal. It will shine like them, etc.
    This is the completion of the mandala ritual based on the instructions of Acharya Buddha-guhya, who has attained siddhi.
    This mandala ritual is common to both, the paramitas and the secret mantra.
    Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).