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| Wylie Definition | Stein, Tibetica Antiqua I 173. As a possible explanation of this phrase, which is used in (roughly) 12th-century Chos works, see the citation from O.T. texts in Stein's article on Zhang-zhung at p. 239: mo ngan bzlog phyir bon gcig byed, "doing a bon in order to reverse the unfavorable prognostic." There are references to mo bon, and to mo bon rtsis, as ineffectual funerary rites, a few pages into the Bu-chos (Bka'-gdams Glegs-bam) text entitled Bka'-rgya / Khu-chos gnyis... (thanks to Mike Walter for this ref.). It occurs in Zhi-byed Coll. V 168.3: 'chi nad la mo bon sman la sogs pa'i... |
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