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NOTE TO USERS This reproduction is the best copy available UMI C C ? Saraha's Adamantine Songs Texts Contexts Translations and Traditions of the Great Seal Lara E Braitstein Faculty of Religious Studies McGiII University Montreal October ? A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial ful ?llment ofthe requirements of the degree of Doctor ofPhilosophy ? Lara E Braitstein C Library and Archives Canada Published Heritage Branch Wellington Street Ottawa ON K A ON Canada Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Direction du Patrimoine de l'édition rue Wellington Ottawa ON K A ON Canada Your ?le Votre référence ISBN - - - Our ?le Notre référence ISBN - - - NOTICE The author has granted a nonexclusive license allowing Library and Archives Canada to reproduce publish archive preserve conserve communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet loan distribute and sell theses worldwide for commercial or noncommercial purposes in microform paper electronic and or any other formats AVIS L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive permettant à la Bibliothèque et Archives Canada de reproduire publier archiver sauvegarder conserver transmettre au public par télécommunication ou par l'Internet prêter distribuer et vendre des thèses partout dans le monde à des ?ns commerciales ou autres sur support microforme papier électronique et ou autres formats The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission L'auteur conserve la propriété du droit d'auteur et des droits moraux qui protège cette thèse Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés ou autrement reproduits sans son autorisation ln compliance with the Canadian Privacy Act some supporting forms may have been removed from this thesis While these forms may be included in the document page cou nt their removal does not represent any loss of content from the thesis ? ? ? Canada Conformément à la loi canadienne sur la protection de la vie privée quelques formulaires secondaires ont été enlevés de cette thèse Bien que ces formulaires aient inclus dans la pagination il n'y aura aucun contenu manquant C ? Abstract My dissertation is focused on a cycle of Saraha's Adamantine Songs and their relationship to the Great Seal Belonging to a genre known as 'Adamantine Songs' Vajra G? ti in Sanskrit or rDo rje'i gLu in Tibetan - their titles are A Body Treaswy called the Immortal Adamantine Song A Speech Treaswy called the Maiijugho a Adamantine Song and A Mind Treaswy called the Unbom Adamantine Song The dissertation is divided into two parts the tirst is the contextualization of a Great Seal Sanskrit mahiimudri? Tibetan phyag rgya chenpo root text by the adept Saraha and the second is a critical edition of the Tibetan text along with the tirst full translation of the text into English The critical edition of the Tibetan is based on versions of the poems drawn from ?ve di ?erent Tibetan sources - four scriptural the