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99 Rang-byung rDo-rje, “rNal-‘byor gyi dbang-phyug mi-la bzhad-pa rdo-rje’i gsung-mgur
mdzod-nag-ma zhes-pa karma-pa rang-byung rdo-rje phyogs cig tu bkod-pa” in Karmapa
Rang-byung rDo-rje’i gSung-’bum, Vol. Ga (Ziling: Tshur-phu mKhan-po Lo-yag bKrashis,
2006), 770.
100 Tshal-pa Kun-dga′ rDo-rje, Deb-ther dmar-po, ed. Dung-dkar bLo-bzang ′Phrin-las kyis
mchan-′grel bkod (China: Mi-rigs dpe-skrun-khang, 1981).
101 For a brief description of his life, see The Blue Annals (Roerich), vi–vii.
102 Bu-ston Rin-chenñgrub, History of Buddhism (Chos-hbyung), trans. E.Obermiller (Leipzig:
Harrassowitz, 1931–2).
103 Its actual title is sNgon gyi gtam Me-tog Phreng-ba and it is contained in Rare Tibetan
Historical and Literary Texts from the Library of Tsepon W.D.Shakabpa, ed. T.Tsepal
Taikhang (New Delhi: T.Tsepal Taikhang, 1974), 60–165.
104 lHo-rong Chos-’byung, 230.
105 Lho-rong Chos-‘byung, 229.
106 ’Gos Lo-tsā-ba gZhon-nu dPal The Blue Annals, trans. George N.Roerich (Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass, 1949), 668. The English translation is faulty here; the sentence that he was in
his twenty-ninth year in the earth-bird year of 1184 is in fact specifying the time when
gTsang-pa rGya-ras discovered the Ro-snyoms sKor-drug. ’Gos Lo-tsā-ba gZhon-nu dPal,
The Blue Annals (New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture, 1974), 583.
107 Pers. comm., Karma Seng-ge Rinpoche, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 2005.
108 Chögyam is the abbreviation of Chökyi Gyamtso (Chos-kyi rGya-mthso) ‘Cocean of the
Dharma’.
109 Tsang Nyön Heruka, trans. Nālandā Transklayion Committee under the direction of
Chögyam Trungpa, The Life of Marpa the Translator (Boulder, CO: Prajñā Press, 1982), 90,
n.
110 E.Gene Smith, Introduction to Mon-rtse-pa Kun-dga’-dpal-ldan, Dkar brgyud gser ‘phreng
(Leh: Sonam W.Tashigang, 1970), 4.
111 Personal information from Larry Merlmelstein, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2002.
112 Personal information from Larry Merlmelstein, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2004.
113 The Collected Writings (gSung-′bum) of the Second Zhvadmar Mkha′Spyod Dbang Po
(mKha’-spyod dBang-po gSung-’bum), 4 vols (Gangtok: Gonpo Tseten, 1978), vol. Ka,
187–317(162a–266a).
114 dPal-byor bZang-po, rGya-bod Yig-tshang Chen-mo (Szechwan: Si-khron Mi-rigs dPeskrun-khang,
1985), ngo-sprod (introduction), 1.
115 Ibid., 526–7.
116 rTa-tshag Tshe-dbang rGyal, lHo-rong Chos-′byung (Bod-ljongs Bod-yig dPe-rnying dPeskrun-khang,
1994), 108–13.
117 Ibid., 113–59.
118 Ibid., 108; Zhwa-dmar-pa, 237.
119 Ibid., 844.
120 lHo-rong Chos-’byung, 845. Me pho stag gi lo la bka’ brgyud rin po che’i lo rgyus rnyed
tshad phyogs gcig tu bsgrigs pa rang gzhan dad pa’i gsol ‘debs ni rab byung zhes pa’i lo zla
ba dang po’i yar tshes la legs par ‘grub pa yin/…Chos ‘byung thub bstan gsal byed ‘di nyid
lug lo hor zla lnga pa’i dmar phyogs gsum pa’i ‘phrul ‘khor la zhus shing dag par grub pa’o/
121 Mon-rtse Kun-dga’ dPal-ldan (1408–75). rJe-btsun Ras-chung rDo-rje Grags- kyi rnampar-thar-pa,
in Dkar-brgyud Gser-phreng: A Golden Rosary of lives of Eminent Gurus,
Smanrtsis Shesrig Spendzod, vol. 3 (Leh: Sonam W.Tashigang, 1970), 165–87.
122 ′Brug-chen II, Kun-dga’ dPal-’byor, Collected Works (Gsung ‘Bum) of Rgyal-dbang Rje
Kun-dga’-dpal (rGyal-dbang rJe Kun-dga’ dPal-’byor gyi bKa’-’bum), 2 vols (Darjeeling:
Kargyud Sungrab Nyamso Khang, 1982).
123 The Blue Annals, (Roerich), 436–40; (′Gos Lo-tsā-ba), 381–4.
124 Ibid., (Roerich), 440–51; (′Gos Lo-tsā-ba), 384–93.