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Death will occur if: the nostrils are not moist, the eyes are tightly closed and without discharge, there is no ringing in the ears, the temperature of the crown of the head drops for more than seven days, death occurs if a ghostly hand rises from the ground, the five poisons suddenly appear for no reason, there is excessive attachment to the eight worldly concerns, one feels weary no matter where one lives or with whom one associates, one's former habits and behaviors become terrible, one loses interest in any virtuous activity, one experiences excessive sleep or insomnia, merit increases or decreases unpredictably, and one develops wrong views towards one's guru and Dharma brothers. In short, death will occur if one cannot control one's mind in its former state. Now, I will explain the methods for averting untimely death: Draw a tortoise on a mandala, create a ransom figure equal to oneself from flour of various grains, adorn the ransom figure's five senses with precious objects, combine male and female trees with oneself, create a chart of the years, write curses, erect white arrows on the left and right, offer the ransom figure of the years and meat and butter, encircle all desirable foods, place the eight-petaled tortoise in the center, and also accumulate appropriate torma offerings. Clearly visualize oneself as Yama, the Lord of Death, and transform and cultivate through mantras and mudras. Recite this peaceful mantra for averting death, which subdues all elemental diseases and evil spirits: oṃ mahākāli moha ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་མ་ཧཱ་ཀ་ལི་མོ་ཧ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ mahākāli moha ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, Great Black Goddess, delusion, ye, svāhā.) oṃ mama raṃ raṃ ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་མ་མ་རྂ་རྂ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ mama raṃ raṃ ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, mama, raṃ raṃ, ye, svāhā.) oṃ mama khaṃ khaṃ yaṃ sal yerpa svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་མ་མ་ཁྂ་ཁྂ་ཡྂ་སལ་ཡེར་པ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ mama khaṃ khaṃ yaṃ sal yerpa svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, mama, khaṃ khaṃ, yaṃ, sal yerpa, svāhā.) oṃ susu mama taṃ taṃ ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ོྂ་སུ་སུ་མ་མ་ཏང་ཏང་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ susu mama taṃ taṃ ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, susu, mama, taṃ taṃ, ye, svāhā.) oṃ mama kara kara ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་མ་མ་ཀར་ཀར་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ mama kara kara ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, mama, kara kara, ye, svāhā.) oṃ mama nodā nodā ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་མ་མ་སྔོ་ཏ་སྔོ་ཏ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ mama nodā nodā ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, mama, nodā, nodā, ye, svāhā.) kha zhu kha zhu svāhā. (Tibetan: ཁ་ཞུ་ཁ་ཞུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: kha zhu kha zhu svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: kha zhu, kha zhu, svāhā.) śi ma ga la svāhā. (Tibetan: ཤི་མ་ག་ལ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: śi ma ga la svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: śi ma ga la, svāhā.) oṃ ā raṃ ā traṃ svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་ཨ་རྂ་ཨ་ཏྲྂ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ ā raṃ ā traṃ svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, ā raṃ, ā traṃ, svāhā.) a te na mama mahā graha hana ma bhyo. (Tibetan: ཨ་ཏེ་ན་མ་མ་ཧཱ་གྲ་ཧ་ཧ་ན་མ་བྷྱོ།།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: a te na mama mahā graha hana ma bhyo, Literal Chinese meaning: a te na, mama, mahā, graha, hana, ma, bhyo.) na ti phu na svāhā. (Tibetan: ན་ཏི་ཕུ་ན་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: na ti phu na svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: na ti phu na, svāhā.) oṃ traṃ hūṃ hūṃ phaṭ. (Tibetan: ོྂ་ཏྲྂ་ཧཱུྂ་ཧཱུྂ་ཕཊ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ traṃ hūṃ hūṃ phaṭ, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, traṃ, hūṃ, hūṃ, phaṭ.) oṃ byi śa ma ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་བྱི་ཤ་མ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ byi śa ma ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, byi śa ma ye, svāhā.) oṃ dru mu dru mu svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་དྲུ་མུ་དྲུ་མུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ dru mu dru mu svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, dru mu, dru mu, svāhā.) oṃ dzi mi dzi mi mu si pag śaṃ saṃ berdo mahā mahā yakṣa bodhi para śaṃ yaṃ ki ro ki ro hūṃ phaṭ. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་འཛི་མི་འཛི་མི་མུ་སི་པག་ཤམ་སྂ་རྦད་ཏོ་མ་ཧཱ་མ་ཧཱ་ཡག་ཤ། བྷོ་དྷེ་པར་ཤང། ཡྂ་ཀི་རོ་ཀི་རོ་ཧཱུྂ་ཕཊ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ dzi mi dzi mi mu si pag śaṃ saṃ berdo mahā mahā yakṣa bodhi para śaṃ yaṃ ki ro ki ro hūṃ phaṭ, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, dzi mi dzi mi mu si pag śaṃ saṃ berdo mahā mahā yakṣa bodhi para śaṃ yaṃ ki ro ki ro hūṃ phaṭ.) oṃ samaya ye me ya yi du be du pe mi sti stā ya hūṃ hūṃ phaṭ phaṭ svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨོྂ་ས་མ་ཡ་ཡེ་མེ་ཡ་ཡི་དུ་བེ། དུ་པེ་མི་སྟི་སྟ་ཡ་ཧཱུྂ་ཧཱུྂ་ཕཊ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ samaya ye me ya yi du be du pe mi sti stā ya hūṃ hūṃ phaṭ phaṭ svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, samaya ye me ya yi du be du pe mi sti stā ya hūṃ hūṃ phaṭ phaṭ svāhā.) na ru śaṃ pa dus sarva ā ya śa gha tsha gha tsha phaṭ. (Tibetan: ན་རུ་ཤམ་པ་འདུས་སརྦ་ཨ་ཡ་ཤ། གྷ་ཚ་གྷ་ཚ་ཕཊ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: na ru śaṃ pa dus sarva ā ya śa gha tsha gha tsha phaṭ, Literal Chinese meaning: na ru śaṃ pa dus sarva ā ya śa gha tsha gha tsha phaṭ.) a ka ni ni ka ni a byi la ma dha li ma dha li ye svāhā. (Tibetan: ཨ་ཀ་ནི་ནི་ཀ་ནི། ཨ་བྱི་ལ་མ་དྷ་ལི་མ་དྷ་ལི་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari:, Sanskrit Romanization: a ka ni ni ka ni a byi la ma dha li ma dha li ye svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: a ka ni ni ka ni a byi la ma dha li ma dha li ye svāhā.) After reciting this a hundred or a thousand times, make offerings to all the gods and demons by name. On an inauspicious day of one's zodiac year, send the ransom figure to the direction where the five ghosts reside. If you do this, even if your lifespan is exhausted, you will gain an additional three years. If it is time to die, what more needs to be said? All inverted body and tiger symbols should be reversed. If even this is difficult, then the method for averting death is: offer wealth equal to your age to the guru, especially the spiritual friend, and recite the number of