Item 0- Mukhākhyāna

Said to be a collection of works which originated from Nepal and are also attributed to Buddhist tantric author Buddhaśrījñānapāda. Same work is known under the name of Mukhāgama, Mukhāmnāya. (See Peter D Szanto) Alex von Rospatt mentions that the Mukhākhyāna genre of literature is a series of instructional texts (deguli in Newari) which outline how a tantric practictioneris to perform deity yoga (devatāyoga) in order to generate himself as his chosen awakened deity, through complex processes of visualization that include the elaborate use of mantras and hand gestures (mudrā)." (Local Literatures: Nepal, p. 824). In this mss. fols 53, 67, 68, 69 and 70 are missing.