The Treasury of Lives

J. Arya Moallem is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University. His dissertation research focuses on the life and times of Miwang Polhane Sonam Tobgye, and works to situate his particular mode of lay kingship within Qing, Inner Asian, and Early Modern contexts.

Published March 2022

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Tshe ring dbang rgyal. Poluonai zhuan 頗羅鼐傳 [Biography of Polhane]. 2002. Translated by Tang Chi’an 湯池安. Lhasa: Xizang renmin chubanshe.

Yuan yilai xizang difang yu zhongyang zhengfu guanxi dang’an shiliao huibian 元以來西藏地方與中央政府關係檔案史料彙編 [Collection of Archival Historical Materials regarding the Relations between Tibet and the Central Government since the Yuan]. 1995. Beijing: Zhongguo Zangxue Chubanshe.

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