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12. Dep-ter~ n on-po (^T^ijx/^'dj tj), ancient records. 



13. Sa-s,kya-yik-tsang (*w g'$£T<iS')> records made in the Sa- 

 ,*kya monastery. 



14. Gyahi-yik-tsang (§Q T $*T&5')> Chinese records, translated by 

 J9Lama rin-ch'hen-grags-pa. 



There are in Tibet some historical fragments under this title, Ctam 

 gyut (£]T}*rl> r )' traditional history, also. 



Under this title, cKhos-jung (j&qf'Qi c; T )» Elements of religion, or the 

 origin and progress of the Buddhistic religion, there are several works 

 in Tibet, according to the different authors. As by Ne'l-pa, by Bu- 

 s,ton ; the CKosjung of the 'Bkah-gdams-pa sect, that originated in 

 the eleventh century ; ditto of the Bruk-pa sect, by Padma karpo. 



Under this name: " TokzJiof (^E]*J"qf^ S. Avaddna), there are 

 many historical fragments both in the Kah-gyur and Stan-gyur (especially 

 in the ^ or thirtieth volume of the M&o class of the Kah-gyur, mostly of 

 a legendary character. But besides these there are also true narrations. 

 The following work is of a mixed character of this kind: j^SQjQ 5,*C- 

 ZjjqvS5'QSJ5]<V T ^Qr£r^ ff]<VTqfs^ " sham-bha-lahi rnambshat-dang 

 phak-yul-gyi-rtokzhod" — Description of Shambhala (a fabulous country 

 and city in the north of Asia). And a memoir on p'haks-yul (S. A'rya 

 desa or India,in general), written by Pan-ch'hen Paldan ye-shes, the 

 great Lama at Tashi lunpo (zj*]*£J<V T( y 3j T y ) in 1775. 



Under this name: "nam thar" ^argjx, tnere are many historical 

 works in Tibet, containing narratives of the life of any great personage, 

 as the life of Shakya, in amdo or stitra, called ^'abI. T XQJ'y (gya-cher- 

 rol-pa) or " Lalita vistara" in Sanskrit. As also in the A/do styled 

 ajcjai'ijX'QiEr^ "non-par-jung-va, his appearance in the world (in a 

 religious character). 



To this class belong the following works, as : Dpag-hsam-k'hri-shing 

 (T^spi^3r[T^ic|c; , )> by Dge-vahi-Z)vang-po (S.Shubhendrq), trans- 

 lated from Sanskrit. The " rnam-t'har" or legendary narrative (contained 

 in the hstan-gyur) of eighty-four persons, in ancient India. How they 

 were emancipated, or acquired preternatural faculties. 



The $i*p<9X fl'nam-thar, of the sixteen principal disciples (ffl^^V'Z^^^ 

 netan) of Shakya. 



The hundred acts of Shakya compiled by Tara'natha, a Tibetan 

 Lama, in the seventeenth century. 

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