The best known Tibetan trickster figure, he rather closely resembles Nasreddin. He is generally the cunning trickster (not the ridiculous oaf), and the stories are often unabashedly sexual.
It's interesting that there is a text on renouncing sangsaric bonds, a teaching granted to an A khu Ston pa, contained in: The Collected Works (Gsung 'bum) of Grags pa 'byung gnas (1175-1255), a Chief Disciple of the Skyob-pa 'Jig-rten-gsum-mgon, ed. by H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Konchog Tenzin Kunzang Thinley Lhundup, Drikung Kagyu Publications (Delhi 2002), pp. 250-254.
An A khu Ston pa is mentioned also in the 2004 history of the 'Bri gung written by 'Bri gung Dkon mchog rgya mtsho, at p. 357.
He Qunying, Stories of A-khu-bstan-pa: Tibetan Folk Stories, Xinlei Publishing House (Tianjin, May 1992), in 147 pages, containing 51 stories.
Kun mchog dge legs, Dpal ldan bkra shis, Kevin Stuart, Tibetan Tricksters, Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 58, no. 1 (1999), pp. 5-30. The other trickster figures include A tsi byi'u mgo ('Ouchy Birdy Head'), Ston pa Shes rab, Rdzun khro lo, Nyi chos bzang po, 'Brug pa Kun legs and Ge sar.
Renaud Lavandier, Le rire du Tibet, histoires grivoises & facétieuses d'Aku Tonpa, L'Harmattan (Paris 2007). In the series La légende des mondes.
Ra se Dkon mchog rgya mtsho, A khu ston pa'i 'byung bar thog ma'i bsam gzhigs, Gangs ljongs rig gnas, vol. 30, no. 2 (1996), pp. 92-96.
Rinjing Dorje, tr., Tales of Uncle Tompa: The Legendary Rascal of Tibet, Station Hill Arts (Barrytown 1997).
Song Weijia, ed, Whipping a King: Story of Tibetan A-khu-bstan-pa, Gansu Children's Publishing House (Lanzhou 1994), in 157 pages, containing 61 stories.
Blo bzang 'jam dpal, A khu ston pa, Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang (Lhasa 2007), in 94 pages.
A khu ston pa, star sdong bcad pa, A khu ston pa'i kha tun ri mo'i sgrung deb dpe tshogs, Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang (Lhasa 2007), in 20 pages.
Tshe rnam, A khu bstan pa'i gtam rgyud rags tsam dpyad pa, Mi rigs dus deb, issue no. 3 for the year 1994, pp. 28-30.
Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 726-727, where it would seem that an actor named Blo bzang tshe ring (who died in around 1970) was nicknamed A khu Ston pa because he somehow resembled him.
