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64 Pers. comm., Hakan Wahlquist, Senior Curator Asian Collections, Folkens Museum
Etnografiska, Stockholm, February 1998.
65 bZhad-pa’i rDo-rje’i rNam-thar (Stockholm), 276b. Shar dags [sic] po’i rnal ‘byor pa gangs
stod kyi ras chen guna matis/sham bu gangs dkar mo’i dben gnas su bsgrubs pa.
66 Ibid., (Newark) 243b; (Oxford) 191b; (Stockholm) 274b.
67 This is a Sanskrit translation of Ngan-ston’s Tibetan name—Byang-chub rGyal-po ‘King of
Enlightenment’.
68 bZhad-pa’i rDo-rje’i rNam-thar (Oxford), bsgom.
69 Ibid., (Newark) shad omitted.
70 Ibid., (Stockholm) rdzong.
71 Ibid., (Oxford) bodhe.
72 Ibid., (Oxford) ratsa.
73 Ibid., (Stockholm) 274b. The section—pa′i ras pa bu-chen bcu-gnyis kyi yig-ger—is
unavailable.
74 Ibid., (Newark) 243b6–244a1; (Oxford) 192a1–2; (Stockholm) 275a3–4.
75 Ibid., (Stockholm) the four words snyan rgyud bde mchog are not available.
76 Ibid., (Newark) ‘di.
77 Ibid., (Stockholm) brgyud.
78 Ibid., (Newark) ‘khor lo.
79 Ibid., (Stockholm) ‘dis.
80 Ibid., (Newark) ‘ong.
81 gdung-rgyud normally refers to a hereditary lineage. Here we see rgyud without a ba-prefix
clearly meaning a lineage.
82 Ibid., (Stockholm and Newark) brjed.
83 Ibid., (Newark) pa gsal ba’i phyir/
84 Ibid., (Newark) gsungs.
85 Ibid., (Newark) 162b6–163a5; (Oxford) 129a6–129b4; (Stockholm) 163b3–7.
86 Ibid., (Newark) 153a5–63a5; (Oxford) 124b6–129b4; (Stockholm) n.a-163b7.
87 Ibid., (Newark) 153b5; (Oxford) 125a3; (Stockholm) n.a.
88 The Blue Annals, (Roerich) 435; (‘Gos Lo-tsā-ba) 380.
89 bZhad-pa’i rDo-rje’i rNam-thar, (Newark) 163a1–4; (Oxford) 129b1–3; (Stockholm)
163b4–7.
90 bZhad-pa’i rDo-rje’i rNam-thar, (Newark) 163a2; (Oxford) 129b1; (Stockholm) 163b5.
91 I assume that the quotation has not yet begun at this point, because of the honorific gnang,
while the quotation uses the familiar byas that is used in first-person speech.
92 ras chod. The meaning is obscure, but it occurs elsewhere. Perhaps it is an idiomatic phrase
referring to betraying the values of a ras-pa.
93 thod rgal nyams kyi skyugs pa ′di/yi ger bkod pa mi rigs kyang/bdag nyid brjed pa′i ′jigs pa
dang/ma ′ongs gdung rgyud ′dzin pa rnams/mos shing spro ba bskyed pa′i phyir/bla ma′i
gsung bzhin yi ger bris/lan gsum bar du zhu phul nas/dgyes bzhin gnang ba ma lags
pa/mkha′ ′gros ko long sdom pa′i phyir/gzu lum ras chod ngas ma byas/slad nas ′byon pa′i
bsgom chen la/dmar khrid nyams tshad ma byas par/dpe rgyud yi ge ma bstan gsungs/bla ma
rje′i bka′ rgyas btab/gal te bka′ las ′das gyur na/mkha′ ′gro′i bka′ chad byung ba′i phyir/yi ge
mi spel sba bar zhu/
94 (Newark) 243b3–4; (Oxford) 192b5–6; (Stockholm) 24b7–275a1.
95 While the Newark and Stockholm editions both have Nyengom Repa (with variation in
spelling) the Oxford version has Radza Repa.
96 Ibid., (Newark) 244a1–3; (Oxford) 192a2–3; (Stockholm) 274b-275a1.
97 gTsang-smyon, bDe-mchog sNyan-rgyud, vol. 1, 195; vol. 2, 171.
98 bKa’-brgyud mGur-mtsho (Rumtek, Sikkim: Rumtek monastery, n.d.), 72a2–101a3; The
Rain of Wisdom, trans. Nālandā Translation Committee (Boulder, CO: Shambhala
Publications, 1980) 165–217.