ABSTRACT
By “preparation of disciples” is meant their preparation to evoke deities—a process frequently called in Sanskrit sādhana; and this is to be distinguished from the initiation of disciples. Thus there are two parts to the present essay, exhibited textually toward the end of the present work with “Outline of the Thob Yig Gsal Bahi Me Lon,” because Chapter 4 of the outlined treatise treats the lineages of permission to evoke deities, and its subsequent Chapter 5 treats initiation and shows that Mantrayāna begins with initiation.
