The Treasury of Lives

Franz Xaver Erhard is a research fellow at Leipzig University, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies with a dissertation on contemporary Tibetan literature. His research interests include secular life writing, modern Tibetan history, and the history of Tibetan print media.

Published October 2020

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Dbang phyug rnam rgyal 1984. "Rdo ring paṇḍitaʼi rnam thar ngo sprod dang rtsom gyi khyad chos rags tsam brjod pa." Bod ljongs zhib ʼjug no. 8, 44–61.

Dbang phyug rnam rgyal 1987. Rdo ring paṇḍi taʼi rnam thar dang rtsom gyi khyad chos rags tsam brjod pa. [Some Words on Doring Paṇḍita's Biography and its Literary Characteristics] In Bod rig paʼi gros mol tshogs ʼduʼi ched rtsom gces bsdus, 343–378. Lha-sa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang.

Dbang phyug rnam rgyal 1999. Rdo ring bstan ʼdzin dpal ʼbyor dang rol cha “yang chin”. [Doring Tenzin Paljor and Instrument “Yangchin”] In Bstan ʼdzin dge legs (ed.) Bod kyi dmangs srol bces btus, 594–598. Pe cin: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang.

Dung dkar Blo bzang 'phrin las (1927–1997) 2002. Dung dkar tshig mdzod chen mo [The Great Dungkar Dictionary]. Beijing: Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang, p. 1165–1168.

Erhard, Franz Xaver. 2019. "Aspects of Social Status in the Biography of Doring Paṇḍita." In L. Galli and P. Schwieger (eds.) “Reflections on Social Status: Proceedings of two conferences of the Franco-German project “Social Status in the Tibetan World”.” Special issue, Revue d'études tibétaines (RET), no. 49, 93–121.

Erhard, Franz Xaver. 2020. "Genealogy, Autobiography, Memoir. The Secular Life Narrative of Doring Tenzin Penjor." In F.X. Erhard and L. Galli (eds.) “The Selfless Ego II: Conjuring Tibetan Lives.” Special issue, Life Writing, vol. 17, no. 3, 327–45.

Li Ruohong. 2002. "A Tibetan Aristocratic Family in Eighteenth-century Tibet: A Study of Qing-Tibetan Contact." PhD, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University.

Petech, Luciano. 1972. China and Tibet in the Early XVIIIth Century: History of the Establishment of Chinese Protectorate in Tibet. 2nd ed. Leiden: Brill.

Petech, Luciano. 1973. Aristocracy and Government in Tibet: 1728–1959. Serie Orientale Roma 45. Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.

Phun rab pa Bstan ʼdzin dpag bsam. 2010. Bod gangs can ljongs kyi gnaʼ boʼi srol rgyun gyi sgyu rtsal nang ma dang stod gzhas gnyis gsar gtod mdzad mkhan rdo ring paṇḍi ta bstan ʼdzin dpal ʼbyor lags kyi sku tshe'i lo rgyus dang / gzhas tshig phyogs bsdus dga’ ba’i glu dbyangs [The biography of Rdo ring Paṇḍita Bstan 'dzin dpal 'byor the inventor of the ancient traditional art of Nang ma and Stod music of Tibet the Land of the Snow and a collection of lyrics, A Joyous Melody]: Sa rā bod kyi dpe skrun khang. TBRC W1KG13792.

Komatsubara, Y. 2017. "A study of the first Tibet-Gorkha war of 1789." In J. Bischoff and S. Mullard (eds.) Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 41. Leiden: Brill, 181-198.

Rdo ring Bstan ʼdzin dpal 'byor. 1987. Rdo ring paṇḍi taʼi rnam thar [The Biography of Doring Paṇḍita = The History of the House of Gazhi, Music of Candid Speech]. 2 vols. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang. TBRC W1 PD96348.

Rdo ring Bstan ʼdzin dpal 'byor. 1988. Dgaʼ bzhi baʼi mi rabs kyi byung ba brjod pa zol med gtam gyi rol mo [The History of the House of Gazhi, Music of Candid Speech]. Lhasa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang. TBRC W28259.

Rdo ring Bstan ʼdzin dpal 'byor. Bod kyi brda sprod sgra rig gi bstan bcos sum cu pa dang rtags kyi 'jug pa gnyis kyi rtsa 'grel legs par bshad pa tshig nyung den bzang utpala yi rna rgyan [A Well-explained Commentary to the two Grammatical Treatises The Thirty Verses]. Lhasa Rdo ring gzim shag. TBRC W28261.

Rdo ring Bstan ʼdzin dpal 'byor, Tang Chi'an 汤池安 (tr.), and Dui Zheng 郑堆 (tr.) 1995. Duoren Banzhida zhuan 多仁班智达传: Gexi shi jia ji shi 葛锡世家纪实 [The Biography of Doring Paṇḍita]. Beijing: Zhongguo Zangxue Chuban she 中国藏学出版社.

Regmī, Ḍ. 2007. Modern Nepal. 2 vols. New Delhi: Rupa & Co.

Schwieger, P. 2015. The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sperling, E. 1998. "Awe and submission. A Tibetan aristocrat at the court of Qianlong." The International History Review vol. 20, no. 2, 325–35.

Sperling, E. 2012. "Pho-lha-nas, Khang-chen-nas, and the last era of Mongol domination in Tibet." Rocznik Orientalistyczny vol. LXV, no. 1, 195–211.

Sperling, E. 2015. "The Rise of the 'Great Man'. Tibetan Secular Biography and the Advent of the Modernity." Rocznik Orientalistyczny vol. 68, no. 2, 143–54.

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