tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295956501109772218.post4358574961270712683..comments2024-02-27T09:11:59.767+00:00Comments on Tibetan Bod Blog at the Bodleian: Arura donation of medical works to BodleianCharles Mansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436916962812313441noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295956501109772218.post-58060919533367387542021-07-07T11:43:36.675+01:002021-07-07T11:43:36.675+01:00Dear Sir Charles Manson,
I'm Dr. Penpa Tsering...<br />Dear Sir Charles Manson,<br />I'm Dr. Penpa Tsering from the Faculty of Sowa Rigpa(Tibetan Medicine), CIHTS, Sarnath, Varanasi U.P. India.<br />It is possible to have a PDF copy of སྨན་དཔྱད་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཅེས་བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད།།Sman dpyad zla ba'i rgyal po zhes bya ba'i rgyud MS.Tibet.c.19 (b)? which was donated by Arura Group to Bodleian on Thursday 16th Feb. 2012<br />Last two years, I'm working on it. So it is urgent to have a PDF copy. Your precious suggestions are needed. <br /><br />Thanking You<br />རག་རྡོའི་བང་མཛོད།https://www.blogger.com/profile/12642201016069284512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295956501109772218.post-30056682979703532132021-07-07T11:42:17.019+01:002021-07-07T11:42:17.019+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.རག་རྡོའི་བང་མཛོད།https://www.blogger.com/profile/12642201016069284512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295956501109772218.post-48619681534526549672021-07-07T11:30:43.903+01:002021-07-07T11:30:43.903+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.རག་རྡོའི་བང་མཛོད།https://www.blogger.com/profile/12642201016069284512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295956501109772218.post-85152392184116110542012-06-09T17:30:44.102+01:002012-06-09T17:30:44.102+01:00I was curious to know who might be the author, whe...I was curious to know who might be the author, when I first saw the pictures of MS. Tibet.c.29. Now that I have read the text in entirety, thanks to your kindness, I now know who the author is. The name is actually right there in the text on folio 9b, strongly implying but not explicitly stating that he was the author. So, with a little bit of corroborating information from elsewhere, I could verify that the name is that of the author.<br /><br />Here is what I found. In the folio 9b there is a line that says “I Buddha Ratna searched [for this instruction] with hardship” Tib: buddha ratna kho bos dka’ bas stsal [btsal?], not really saying he wrote it, or uses words to that effect. So this line left us with only to infer, although strongly, as to who the author is.<br /><br />So, in order for us to say with confirmation that the person mentioned in that line is the one who wrote the text, we need to look at Zurkhar’s text (see TBRC W29481 p. 249) where he mentions one Sangs rgyas rin chen (=Sans. Buddha Ratna) of Chu bar (=chu dbar) as the person who received all aspects of this instruction from Hak+ta / Hag ta, a Nepalese doctor, and known to have put them in writing. However, there are others who have also written on the subject, not counting Zur mkhar. <br /><br />According to how Zur mkhar puts it in his text (ibid), Dpal ngag gi dbang po, after having received the same instruction from Sang rgyas rin chen, also seems to have written on it. Zur mkhar also records in his other text (W29481 pp. 250-254), the different transmission lineages by which this instruction reached him, and I think that could mean that still more people might have written on the subject. But the fact that the line I mentioned before was written in first person reasonably confirms that it was written by Buddha Ratna (Sangs rgyas rin chen). <br /><br />Thank you for letting me read the whole text.<br /><br />Yonten GyatsoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295956501109772218.post-13847501225373337652012-05-29T04:04:37.012+01:002012-05-29T04:04:37.012+01:00Regarding MS. Tibet.c.29, its title and the sneak ...Regarding MS. Tibet.c.29, its title and the sneak peek provided by the first two folios enable me to say that I know of 2 other short texts that talks about the same thing - bal po sman dkar gyi gdam pa. <br /><br />The two texts are: <br /> <br />1. Sman dkar gyi lo rgyus nges pa rnam rol snyan grags lha'i rnga chen/ (pp 248-250)*<br />2. Sman dkar gyi lag len/ (pp 250-254)* <br />(* Page numbers are according to TBRC W29481, 013th of the Arura series.)<br /> <br />Both these in Zur mkhar mnyam nyid rdo rje's Man ngag bye ba ring bsrel, available in different published editions and formats, the most wonderful TBRC lists 4 editions, all available for free download. <br /> <br />The first text, as the title suggests, is about some background information such as history about this instruction, while the second text is on the actual practice, and it talks about different versions of this practice. <br /><br />Yonten GyatsoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com