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.
'Brug chen pad+ma dkar po. (1771). Rje btsun mthu stobs zhabs kyi rnam par thar pa ngo mtshar rma bya rnam par brtse ba. In Rwa lung dkar brgyud gser 'phreng. Pelampur: SNGP, vol 3, pp. 307-427.
Sgrub sprul phrin las rgya mtsho. 2009. Gdams ngag bka' rgya can lnga yi bla ma brgyud pa'i rnam thar dad gsum chu gter 'phel byed ngo mtshar lza ba'i me long. Swayambhu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihara, pp. 177-180.
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