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01storyEzekiel · The chariot vision02researchAncient Text Research Kit03storyAt the threshold of Kesh · The temple hymn’s conclusion04storyA Vessel on a White Lotus · Amoghapāśa05storySamuel · The source of the voice06storySpeech that went unheard · Vāk and understanding07storyWind, Dust and the Body · An Incantation of Ningirim08storyMoses · Fire in the bush09storyElijah · After the fire10storyA Voice from the Depths · Jonah11storyJacob · The place he did not know12storyThe empty space · A wheel, a vessel and a room13storyJacob · Tell me your name14storyKena · That through which15storyThe yaksha · Power that is not enough16storyWho knows the beginning · The hymn of origins17storyThe Waters of Nun · Book of the Dead18storyZhuang Zhou · The butterfly dream19storyForm and Emptiness · Heart Sūtra20storyThe Kālāmas · When you know for yourselves21storyThe ending of hostility · Pairs22storyThe cessation of suffering · What can change23storyDiscern and choose · Thought, word and deed24storyMusa · Where the two seas meet25storyThe Plant That Could Not Be Kept · Gilgamesh26storyAfter the Flood · Gilgamesh and Genesis27storyNachiketas · The third boon28storyThe unborn · The body and its dweller29storyA Weapon That Can Be Recalled · Mahābhārata30storyThe Stayed Hand · Abraham and Isaac31storyJob · Before explaining32publicationSuffering is not a required course.33storyAn explanation is not pain relief.34storyWhat Shall I Bring? · Micah and Hosea35storyWho sinned? · A question on the road36storyTo follow · To save and to lose37storyLife within me · No longer I38storyThe transfiguration · A voice from the cloud39storyAre you Elijah? · Three Gospel testimonies40storyWords on the Gates · Deuteronomy41storyElijah and Elisha · On the other side of the Jordan42storyThe seven seals · Who can stand?43storyThe image of the beast · Breath and a name44storyThe river and tree after the end · After the visions of judgment45storyAt the foot of Sumeru · Four mountains46storyMani · The name Maitreya47storyWait here for Maitreya · A dialogue48storyBuddha Mani · The Moon God49storyA place by the water · The garden between records

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Buddha Mani · The Moon God

Bilingual hymn to Mani · Old Uyghur version · U99–U103, lines 245–280

1[…] [the radiant Sun God] […] the Moon God […].

2Like [the crown of the god Hormuzt], like [the nectar of the god Azrua], shining to behold, my father, Mani Buddha. Therefore, for this reason, [I praise you and bow down].

3Like the cintamani jewel, you are worthy to be [raised] to the very crown of the head. Yes, you are worthy.

4Thus [you shine] with the holy splendour of keeping the commandments. Thus [you are] radiant among […], shining to behold, my father Mani. Therefore, for this reason, I praise you and bow down.

5[You] remove greed and the other passions without obstruction, completely, leaving nothing. [You], whose nature is blessed nirvana(?). You are worthy to be carried on the crowns of the heads of all the ancient buddhas. Therefore, for this reason, [I praise you] and bow down.

6[You] become manifest on the paths of [good thought] among living beings who are to be liberated. Supremely pure […] revealing […] jewels of the Teaching […]. Therefore [I praise you and bow down].

7Commandments, teaching, concentration; jewels endowed with virtues […], like a river of pearls […].

8Following the good […] worthy of wonder […] farmer […] of wealthy [donors] […] alms […].

9From time to time […] wholeheartedly cultivating great reverence, increasing it […]. Before this holy jewel—the assembled community—I, aryaman frishtum khoshtyr(?), bow with deep respect and touch [the earth] with my forehead. Son […].

10[…] completed(?) […] god […] desir[…]. [End of the surviving sequence of leaves.]

Reading notes

The praise of Mani draws on images of radiance and precious objects: the Sun, Moon, crown and cintamani jewel. The repeated act of bowing joins these comparisons into one hymn.

In the closing section, reverence is also directed to the community, called a holy jewel. The passage speaks through praise and ritual address.

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