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The Two Conquests of Zhang zhung and the Many Lig-Kings of Bon 47
Appendix: A Structural Analysis of the Bon ma nub pa’i gtan tshigs 51
Cf. Bru rGyal ba g-Yung drung’s ZZNG kyi lo rgyus rnam thar dang bcas 52
[321/260] {{pa}} //rDzogs pa chen po zhang zhung snyan brgyud kyi bon ma
nub pa’i gtan tshigs bzhugs so//
[322/261] bstan pa dar nub kyi lo rgyus bstan pa ni/ 53
Part Ia. dang po bstan pa g-yung drung bon gyis bzung nas dar zhing rgyas
par byas/ 54 mkhas btsun grub thob pa rnams kyis bstan pa bskyang / sgrub pa po
rgyal thebs rnams kyis bstan pa ’dzin/ mthu bo che man ngag dang ldan pa
rnams kyis bstan pa bsrung / bod dang zhang zhung gnyis ka na bon ma yin pa
chos kyi skad tsam med/ dus de tsam na zhang zhung na grub thob tswo men
gyer chen dang / bod na spa ji phrom dkar po/ stong rgyung mthu chen/ mkhas
pa mi bzhi/ 55 bla chen dran pa nam mkha’i sku tshe’i smad/ sprul pa’i sku bzhi
ni/ zhang zhung bkra shis rgyal mtshan/ gu rub stag wer shing slags/ ma hor stag
gzigs/ tshe spungs zla ba rgyal mtshan dang bzhi’o/ 56 ta pi hri tsas gdams pa
bzhag pa’i/ mchog thun mong gnyis la mnga’ bsnyems pa yi/ gyer spungs chen po
snang bzher lod po 57 bzhugs pa’i dus/ dus kyis ’khor lo’i shugs kyis g-yung drung
gi bon nub pa lags te/ [cf. Bru:543.3f.]
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51
This edition was prepared from the original blockprint in possession of the sMan ri
Khri ’dzin, which is print-identical with the edition by Lokesh Chandra and Lopon
Tenzin Namdak: History and Doctrine of the Bon-po Niṣpanna-yoga (Śata-piṭaka Series,
Indo-Asian Literatures, Vol. 73), New Delhi 1968; the second page-numbers refer to the
latter.
52
References are to the Dolanji volume sNyan rgyud nam mkha’ ’phrul mdzod nges skor
and Zhang zhung snyan rgyud skor, pp. 551.1ff., published by Sherab Wangyal, Dolanji
1972; henceforth: Bru. See also another version of this text, Zhang zhung snyan rgyud kyi
lo rgyus, in the ‘2 nd ’ edition of the Bon bKa’ ’gyur, Vol. 33.8, pp. 223–261. See also Martin
(1997), entry 47.
53
This may have to be read as an alternative title, even though it also regularly appears in
Tibetan historical texts as a demarcation of an introductory section, or as we shall see, in
a table of contents.
54
This dang po probably corresponds to the same in Bru:543.3: da nye ba’i brgyud pa la
gsum ste/ dang po ’byung ba’i khungs bstan pa dang / bar du rkyen gyis ma nub pa’i rgyu
mtshan dang / tha ma rim gyis dar zhing rgyas pa’i tshul lo/. The other indications are
missing in the Ma nub. Does this indicate that the first part of section I was borrowed
later, perhaps from Bru or another source
55
N.B. these are: sTong rgyung mthu chen, lDe bon gyim tsha rma chung, Me nyag lce
tsha mkhar bu, and Se bon sha ri dbu chen. So the preceding figure, sTong rgyung mthu
chen, is one of them (the following, Dran pa nam mkha’ is not; cf. Bru and Reynolds).
56
This is a ZZNG lineage.
57
Whose mention also unambiguously identifies or claims the contents as belonging to
the ZZNG.