The Tibetan Book of the Dead · Reading 73 of 170

The Dawning of the Wrathful Deities, from the Eighth to the Fourteenth Day

The Twelfth Day

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Despite such setting-face-to-face, being still led backwards by evil propensities, terror and awe arising, it may be that one recognize not and flee. Thereupon, on the Twelfth Day, the blood-drinking deities of the Karmic Order, accompanied by the Kerima, Htamenma, and Wang-chugma, will come to receive one. Not recognizing, terror may be produced. Whereupon, the setting-face-to-face is, calling the deceased by name, thus: