The Tibetan Book of the Dead · Reading 86 of 170

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

The Fourteenth Day

Reading 9 of 11

If thou recognizest in that manner, exerting thy faith and affection towards the tutelary deities and believing that they have come to receive thee amidst the ambuscades of the Bardo, think, '[I] take refuge [in them]'; and remember the Precious Trinity, exerting towards them [the Trinity] fondness and faith. Whosoever thine own tutelary deity may be, recollect now; [and] calling him by name, pray thus:

'[Alas!], wandering am I in the Bardo; run to my rescue;
Uphold me by thy grace, O Precious Tutelary!'

Calling upon the name of thine own guru, pray thus:

'[Alas!] wandering am I in the Bardo; rescue me!
[O] let not thy grace forsake me!'