The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region

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The TBRC RID number refers to the unique ID assigned by the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC.org) to each historical figure in their database of Tibetan literature.