The Treasury of Lives

Gedun Rabsal is a Senior Lecturer of Tibetan Language in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches Tibetan language and Tibet-related courses.  

Published November 2025

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Bu ston Rin chen grub. 2000b. Bstan srung la dbang gsol nas bdud mo la smod pa smodpa'i 'khor lo. In The Collected Writings (Gsung 'bum) of Rin chen grub, vol. 26, pp. 315–317. Lhasa: Zhol par khang.

Richardson, Sarah Aoife.Painted Books for Plaster Walls: Visual Words in the Fourteenth-Century Murals at the Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Shalu. PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2016.

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