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The ritual of burning a corpse

    I prostrate before the glorious Vajradak!
    Having placed a vajra and a bell in your hands, place a good tiara on your head. Having done so, [manifest] the essence of the oral precepts on making vows together with vajr vows. On the eyes and so forth, - dullness and so forth. The three tormas are placed on three levels. In the connection of the vajra opening of the hearth, burn the remains, purifying again and again.
    On the day after the completion of the three days, collect the cluster of bones in a beneficent manner. Perform ablution with milk and fragrant [water]. With this, make a stupa. For [the attainment of] such a goal, first perform the ablution with fragrant [water]. Present the diadem and ornaments such as garments and so forth. Draw a mandala. Perform the compilation of the mandala, etc. Having done so, perform initiation with water, tiara, vajra, lord-essence, name, vase-vase. When you do so, appear in the form of your own exalted deity. When you do so, realize the blessing of the eyes, etc. by means of preliminary actions. Such as attracting the jnyanasattva, etc. Having done so, realize by repeated repetition of clusters of mantras. Make offerings, perform hymns, and realize the experience of tasting nectar. Having done so, realize the repeated repetition of mantras. Accordingly, in the heart of this nucleated fire deity in the hearth, conceive the mandala of Vajrasattva or your own exalted deity. When you have done so, ask the jnanasattva of the deceased body to come. When the taste of his samayasattva and the mandala of the jnyanasattva become one, perform the burning of the remaining remains and the wood. If you do not do so, the stupa will be destroyed at this time.
    This is how the ritual of burning the corpse is completed.
    Translated by the great Indian preceptor Ashrijnyana and the translator monk Palgyi Nyingpo. Compiled by Sutta Ashoka in the form of oral instructions.
    Translated by Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).