V: The Colophon

[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:]
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.
[Here endeth the Manuscript of the Bardo Thödol.]