Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity . wards, or from side to side. The efficacy of the Dorje in securing good fortuneand warding off evil influences of all kinds is supposedto be of wide application. The idea was really borrowedfrom Saivism or from the Tantra system, introducedthrough Neprd by the Bed sect. It is easy to un-derstand the enormous power supposed to belong-to a priesthood which claimed to be the wielders of aformidable thunderbolt, sent to them directly fromheaven. USE OF THE DORJE AND PRAYER-BELL. 323 No wonder that the or
Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity . wards, or from side to side. The efficacy of the Dorje in securing good fortuneand warding off evil influences of all kinds is supposedto be of wide application. The idea was really borrowedfrom Saivism or from the Tantra system, introducedthrough Neprd by the Bed sect. It is easy to un-derstand the enormous power supposed to belong-to a priesthood which claimed to be the wielders of aformidable thunderbolt, sent to them directly fromheaven. USE OF THE DORJE AND PRAYER-BELL. 323 No wonder that the original Dorje preserved at theSera monastery has become an object of actual to M. Hue, countless pilgrims prostrate them-selves before it; and at the New Years festival, on the2 7th day of the first month, it is carried in processionwith great pomp to Lhassa,—to the two centres ofLamism—Potala and La brang. On its way there, themystical implement is adored by the whole population,male and female (ii. 221). Below is an engraving of a Dorje which I broughtfrom It should be mentioned that the fierce Bodhi-sattvaYajra-pani (see p. 201 of this volume) is representedholding a similar Dorje in his right hand in his charac-ter of subduer of evil spirits. In some representationsthe evil demons are denoted by serpents. Another important part of a full monks equipment inTibet is the Prayer-bell (called Drilbu) employed at theperformance of daily religious ceremonies, and rung toaccompany the repetition and chanting of prayers, orto fill up the intervals of worship. It often has halfa Dorje as a handle, or the handle is ornamented withvarious mystical symbols carved on it. The object ofringing bells during worship is to call the attention of t Y 2 324 CEREMONIAL AND RITUALISTIC BUDDHISM. the beings who are worshipped, or to keep off evilspirits by combining noise with the waving of theDorje in the handle. The bell here represented was brought by me fromDarj
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