One Nam mkha'i snying po is praised, with a hymn on the view of yoga, and the life and works of his disciple Spug Ye shes dbyangs, in no. 996 in Lalou's Dunhuang catalogue. This text is reproduced in Marcelle Lalou, Document tibétain sur l'expansion du Dhyāna chinoise, Journal Asiatique (1939), pp. 505-523, at p. 518.
Karmay, Great Perfection, p. 154. Spug Ye shes dbyangs died in 866, was abbot of Khri ga (Khri kha) Monastery near Kokonor.
See Amy Heller's forthcoming article on the cult of Vairocana.
Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, pp. 197, 242, 340, 362, 440.
EoB. The Bodhisattva, also called Gaganagañja (Nam mkha' mdzod).
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