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Tibetan texts admit frankly what other religious documents fail to admit, that the crowds of gods whose forms fill temple altars and wayside shrines are virtually "the play of one's own mind," that all the pageantry of worship, chants, music, and prayers is directed to symbolic figures.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 2 : Organization, Content of Religion > # 170