ཡ་དགས་མ་ཁ་འབར་མ་དབགས་དབྱང་བའ་གཏར་མའ་ཆ་ག notes.15

notes.15

15. In his sdom gsum rab dbye (Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes) Sakya Paṇḍita said he had witnessed practices in Tibet in which the names of the four tathāgatas were recited “in prologue to the Burning Mouth oblation,” which he said was not correct as “in the sūtra” the names of the four tathāgatas should be recited after the dhāraṇī. This is a clear reference to in Toh 646. He also said that was incorrect to add food to water offerings, as this causes pretas great torment. It is interesting that the instruction to add food to water offerings is found only in Toh 646, and not in the ritual prescribed here in Toh 647. Here, the instruction is to make food offerings to pretas and water offerings to brahmarṣis. See Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltshen (2002), p. 124.