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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 January 2019

Bibliography

Anon. 2008. Kong jo ji ltar blangs pa'i tshul. In Bod kyi lo rgyus la dbye zhib byas pa'i thog ma'i dpyad gtam, pp. 121-125. TBRC W1PD53276.

Anon. 2010. Rgya bza' kong jo dang / jo bo shAkya mu ni rnam gnyis spyan drangs pa'i skor. In Bod kyi lo rgyus rnam thar phyogs bsgrigs. Xining: Mtsho sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang, pp. 103a-137b. TBRC W1KG10687.

Benard, Elisabeth. 2000. "Transformations of Wen Cheng Kongjo: The Tang Princess, Tibetan Queen, and Buddhist Goddess Tara." In Goddesses Who Rule, Elisabeth Benard and Beverly Moon, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bsod nams rgyal mtshan and Per Sørensen. 1994. The Mirror Illuminating the Royal Genealogies: Tibetan Buddhist Historiography, an annotated translation of the XIVth century Tibetan chronicle: Rgyal rabs gsal ba'i me long. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Chab 'gag rdo rje tshe ring. 1991. "Rgya 'bza wun khrin kon jo dang 'brel ba'i lo rgyus kyi gnas tshul 'har dpyad pa." Bod ljongs zhub 'jug, vol. 1, pp. 22-30.

Dkon mchog bstan 'dzin 'phrin las lhun 'grub, Meghan Howard, and Tsultrim Nakchu. 2015. A History of the Tibetan Empire: Drawn From the Dunhuang Manuscripts, Dehra Dun: Songtsen Library Center for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, pp. 218-224.

Gyatso, Janet. 1987. "Down with the Demoness: Reflections on a Feminine Ground in Tibet." The Tibet Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 38-53.

Heller, Amy. 1994. "Ninth Century Buddhist Images Carved at lDan Ma Brag to Commemorate Tibeto-Chinese Negotiations." In Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992, Per Kværne, editor. Oslo: The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, pp. 335-49 & Appendix to Volume 1, pp. 12-19.

Jay, Jennifer W. 2014. "Li, Princess Wencheng". In Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang Through Ming, 618–1644. Lee, Lily Xiao Hong and Wiles, Sue, editors. M.E. Sharpe, pp.204–205.

Mills, Martin A. 2007. "Re-Assessing the Supine Demoness: Royal Buddhist Geomancy in the Srong btsan sgam po Mythology." Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 3, pp. 1-47.

Richardson, Hugh E. 1965. "How Old was Srong Brtsan Sgampo." Bulletin of Tibetology, vol 1, no. 2, pp. 5-9.

Richardson, Hugh E. 1997. "Mun Sheng Kong Co and Kim Sheng Kong Co: Two Chinese Princesses in Tibet." The Tibet Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp.3–11.

Sangs rgyas rin chen. 1988. "Rgya 'bza kong jo bod la phebs pa'i lo rgyus la che long tsam dpyad pa." Mtsho sngon slob gso, vol. 5, pp. 65-71.

Seegers, Eva. 2015. "Two stūpas of princess Wencheng:
A comparative study on two ancient terrace stūpas in eastern Tibet." Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies in Architecture, pp. 52-63.

Slobodník, Martin. 2006. "The Chinese Princess Wencheng in Tibet: A Cultural Intermediary between Facts and Myth." In Trade, Journeys, Inner- and Intercultural Communication in East and West (up to 1250). M Gálik and T. Štefanovičová, editors. Bratislava: Lufema, pp.267–276.

Sørensen, Per K., Guntram Hazod, and Gyalbo Tsering. 2005. Thundering Falcon: An Inquiry into the History and Cult of Khra-'brug, Tibet's First Buddhist temple. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 172-178, 269-272.

Tucci, Giuseppe. 1962. "The Wives of Srong btsan Sgam po. Oriens extremus, vol. 9, pp. 121-126.

Wangdu, Pasang, and Hildegard Diemberger, et. al. 2000. dBa' bzhed: The royal narrative concerning the bringing of the Buddha's doctrine to Tibet. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenchaften.

Warner, Cameron David. 2011. "A Miscarriage of History: Wencheng Gongzhu and Sino- Tibetan Historiography." Inner Asia 13, 2: 239-264.

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