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7 lHo-rong Chos-’byung, 352 ff.
8 rDo-rje mDzes-‘od, 472–89.
9 rDo-rje mDzes-’od, 472–89.
10 The Great Kagyu Masters, xvi.
11 rDo-rje mDzes-’od, 427–89.
12 Ibid., 431 gives the iron-ox year as his birth; 481 states that he died in his seventy-fifth year
in a hare year, which would be a wood-hare year.
13 Ibid., 434.
14 rDo-rje mDzes-’od, 427.
15 Ibid., 431.
16 Ibid., 481.
17 Roberto Vitali, The Kingdoms of Gu.ge Pu.hrang: according to mNga′.ris rgyal.rabs by
Gu.ge mkhan.chen Ngag.dbang grags.pa (Dharamsala: Tho.ling gtsug.lag.khang
lo.gcig.stong ′khor.ba′i rjes.dran.mdzad sgo′i go.sgrig tshogs.chung, 1996), 379.
18 Ibid., 473.
19 Ibid., 468.
20 Ibid., 470.
21 Ibid., 473–89.
22 Ibid., 472–3.
23 rDo-rje mDzes-’od, 489–504.
24 Ibid., 489.
25 Ibid., 504.
26 That is ‘thunder’, which in Tibetan is Druk (‘brug), the name of the lineage.
27 dPal dwags-po bka′-brgyud las/don-brgyud dpal-ldan dbyar-rnga-pa′i bstan-pa rin-po-cher
byon-pa′i ′brug ra-lung gdan-rabs Chos-rje dBon-ras dang/rGod-tshangs-pa yan gong-ma
grub-thob gser-ri′i ‘phreng-ba′i rnam-par thar-pa mdor-tshang rags-bsdus le-tshan-rnams
phyogs-bsgrigs bzhugs. Published as: rGyal-thang-pa bDe-chen rDo-rje (rGya-ldang-pa),
dKar-brgyud gSer-‘phreng: A thirteenth-century collection of verse hagiographies of the
succession of eminent masters of the ‘Brug-pa dKarbrgyud-pa tradition (H.P.: Sungrab
Nyamso Gyunphel Parkhang, 1973).
28 Lho-rong Chos-′byung, 630.
29 E.Gene Smith. Introduction to Mon-rtse-pa Kun-dga’-dpal-ldan, 6.
30 Pad-ma dKar-po, ‘‘Gro ba’i mgon po gtsang pa rgya ras pa’i rnam par thar pa ng mtshar dad
pa’i rlabs phreng’ in Pad-ma dKar-po’i gSung ‘bum, 24 vols (Darjeeling: Kargyud Sungrab
Nyamso Khang, 1973–4), vol. 3, 17a–17b.
31 rGya-ldang-pa, 189–265.
32 rGya-ldang-pa, 252.
33 rGod-tshang Ras-pa, 362.
34 rGya-ldang-pa, preface.
35 Dan Martin, Tibetan Histories: A bibliography of Tibetan-language historical works
(London: Serindia, 1997), 38.
36 rGya-ldang-pa, 564–5: rje′i zhal nas gsung pa dang/yum gyi ngag nas thos pa dang/ bdag gis
gsung gleng zhus pa las/rang dgar bcug pa mi gdog pas/yon tan rnam thar bjod par mi nus
kyang/slob ma mched grogs rnams kyi skul ba′i ngor/dpal ra lung dgon pa′i sa phyogs dben
gnas su/shākya′i dge slong rin chen seng ge yis/legs sbyar
37 Ibid., 619. The lineage of these biographies: (1) rGyal-thang-pa bDe-chen rDo-rje. (2) Chosrje
Thogs-med-pa. (3) Slob-dpon Shes-rab ′Byung-gnas. (4) bKa′-bcu-pa Sangs-rgyas bKrashis.
(5) mKhas-grub Chos-kyi rGyal-mtshan. (6) And to myself, Svasti Dhvacha. Zur Legspa
rGyal-mtshan.
38 E.Gene Smith, ‘Preface’ in rGya-ldang-pa.