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125 Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, compiled by Khetsun Sangpo
(Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1977), vol. 7, 33–47.
126 In the available edition, the sub-title occurs only in the colophon.
127 rNal ′byor gyi dbang-phyug mi-la bzhad-pa rdo-rje′i gsung-mgur mdzod-nag-ma: The Life
and Songs of realisation of Mi-las-ras-pa (Bzhad-pa-rdo-rje), ed. Third Black Hat Karma-pa
vol. 2 (Dalhousie: Damchoe Sangpo, 1978), 557.
128 Pers. comm., Khenpo Sonam Tobgyal Rinpoche, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 5 October 2005.
129 Ibid., vol. 2, 553–4.
130 Alternatively, this could mean a 108 compilations that the Karmapa had read.
131 Written in a shortened form (bdsud-yig) as rnor.
132 Written in a shortened form (bdsud-yig) as rdeo’i.
133 Written as a numeral.
134 Phrin-las rGya-mtsho, 20b–21a.
135 Ibid., vol. 2, 555–7.
136 Gyurme Dorje, Tibet Handbook (Bath: Footprint Handbooks, 1996) 478; Eva M. Dargyay,
The Rise of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977), 165.
137 gTsang-smyon, bDe-mchog mKha’-’gro sNyan-rgyud, vol. 1, 195; vol. 2, 171.
138 Byin-brlabs kyi chu-rgyun, vol. 2, p. 553, f. 537a5–6.
139 Rig-‘dzin Tshe-dbang Nor-bu, ‘Mar mi dwagspo jo-bo-rje yab-sras sogs dam-pa
‘ga’-zhig gi rnam-thar sa-bon dus kyi nges-pa brjod-pa dag-ldan nyung-gsal’ in Selected
Writings of Rig-‘dzin Tshe-dbang Nor-bu, vol. 1 (Darjeeling: Kargyu Sungrab
Nyamso Khang, 1973), 692.
140 Lobsang P.Lhalungpa, The Life of Milarepa (London: Paladin, 1977), xxx.
141 ‘Jigs-med dBang-po, Bod-dong gyi rNam-thar (China: Bod-ljongs bod-yig dpesnying
dpe-skrun khang, 1991) 20, 385.
142 http://www.tbrc.org/.
143 ‘Jigs-med dBang-po, 20.
144 Tshig mDzod Chen-mo, 1842.
145 Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Early Buddhist Block Prints from Mang-yul Gung-thang (Lumbini,
Nerpal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2000), 12.
146 thog Rig-′dzin Tshe-dbang Nor-bu, Deb-ther Dwangs-shel ′Phrul-gyi Me-long, 124–9.
147 bDe-mchog mKha-’gro sNyan-rgyud (Ras-chung sNyan-rgyud): Two manuscript
collections of texts from the yig-cha of gTsang-smyon He-ru-ka, 2 vols (Leh: S.W
Tashigangpa, 1971), vol. 1, Bya-btang ‘Phrin-las dPal-‘bar manuscript, 91–3; vol. 2, Gradkar
Rab-jam-pa manuscript, 167–9.
148 gTsang-smyon, bDe-mchog mKha’-’gro sNyan-rgyud, vol. 1, 93–5; vol. 2, 169–71.
149 rGod-tshang Ras-pa, The Life of the Saint of gTsang, 159, 235.
150 gTsang-smyon, bDe-mchog mKha’-’gro sNyan-rgyud, vol. 1, 195; vol. 2, 171.
151 Mi-la’i mGur-‘bum, 575.
152 lHa-btsun, Grub-thob gTsang-pa sMyon-pa’i rNam-thar, 128.
153 Ibid., 113–23.
154 lHa-btsun Rin-chen rNam-rgyal, Tshe-gcig la ‘ja’ lus brnyes pa rje ras-chung pa’i rnam
thar rags bsdus mgur rnam rgyas pa in bKa ′ brgyud Hagiographies, ed. Don-brgyud Nyi-ma
Khams-sprul, 3 vols (Kangra, H.P.: Khampa Gar Sungrab Nyamso Gyunphel Pang, Tibetan
Craft Community, 1972), vol. 3, 485–833.
155 Smith, preface to The Life of the Saint of gTsang, 25–6.
156 Drinking the Mountain Stream: New Stories and Songs by Milarepa, trans. Lama Kunga
Rinpoche and Brian Cutillo (California: Lotsawa Novata, 1978). Miraculous Journey: New
Stories and Songs by Milarepa, trans. Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Brian Cutillo (California:
Lotsawa, 1986).