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Alexander Gardner is Director and Chief Editor of the Treasury of Lives. He completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2007. He is the author of The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul The Great.

Published March 2022

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Blo gros phun tshogs. 1995. Sde dge'i lo rgyus. Derge: Srid gros sde dge rdzong rig gnas lo rgyus rgyu cha bsdu sgrig u yon lhan khang. TBRC W26569.

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Karma rgyal mtshan, editor. 1994. Mdo smad chos rgyal sde dge'i rgyal rabs las 'phreng pa'i chos kyi 'byung tshul mdo tsam brjod pa gzur gnas blo ldan dgyes pa'i tambu ra. Ganze: Hong Kong Asian Press.

​​Kobayashi Ryōsuke. 2018. "Militarisation of Dargyé Monastery: Contested Borders on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier during the Early Twentieth Century. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asia, vol. 27, pp. 139–171.

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Kolmaš, Josef. 1968. A Genealogy of the Kings of Derge (Sde-dge'i Ryal-rabs). Dissertationes Orientales, vol. 12. Prague: Oriental Institute in Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

Kolmaš, Josef. 1988. "Dezhung Rinpoche's Summary and Continuation of the Sde-dge'i rgyal-rabs." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 119-152.

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Petech, Luciano. 1973. Aristocracy and Government in Tibet: 1728-1959. Serie Orientale Roma, vol. XLV. Roma: Istituto Italiano per iJ Medio ed Estremo Oriente.

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Shakabpa, W. D. 2009. One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet. Derek Maher, translator. Leiden: Brill.

Shelton, 1921. "Life Among the People of Eastern Tibet. National Geographic, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 294-326.

Sperling 1976. "The Chinese Venture into K'am, 1904-1911, and the Role of Chao Erh-feng." Tibet Journal vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 10-36.

Teichman, Eric. 1922. Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet, Together with a History of the Relations between China, Tibet and India. Cambridge: The University Press.

Tsomo, Yudru. 2015. The Rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham: The Blind Warrior of Nyarong. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Tsomu, Yudru. 2019. "The Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century. The Story of Jagö Topden." In Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in Sino- Tibetan Borderlands, Stéphane Gros, editor. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Wang Xiuyu. 2011. China’s Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands. New York: Lexington Books.

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