Kubjikamata
The root scripture of the Paschimamnaya, the Western Transmission. Its closing colophon claims twenty-five chapters and three and a half thousand verses, and calls itself the essence of the essence within a Twenty-four Thousand it does not contain. Goudriaan and Schoterman edited it in 1988; Sanderson published twenty-four pages of corrections in 2002.
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- Kubjika and the Paschimamnaya: four origins Lineages
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- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
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