• His biography was set down in writing by his disciple named Rin chen phun tshogs from Rgyal rong. He was born in Sog sde Bon dgon, in the valley of Khra zhu in Khams. His father was She tsu wer ma, and his mother Dang ra g.yu mi. His main monastery when he was in Khams was Nor gling (or, Sog Rting ngu Bon dgon Nor bu gling). Charles Ramble, A Nineteenth-Century Bonpo Pilgrim in Western Tibet and Nepal: Episodes from the Life of dKar ru grub dbang bsTan 'dzin rin chen, Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, vol. 15 (November 2008), pp. 481-502.

Bibliography:

• 'Dzam gling gangs rgyal ti se'i dkar chag tshangs dbyangs yid phrog.
  • Contained in: Snang srid mdzod phug gi rtsa ba dang spyi don gyi gsung pod, Tashi Dorji, Tibetan Bonpo Monastic Centre (Dolanji 1973).
  • Namkhai Norbu, ed., Gaṅs ti se'i dkar c'ag: A Bon-po Story of the Sacred Mountain Ti-se and the Blue Lake Ma-paṅ, Serie Orientale Roma, series no. 61, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (Rome 1989). Contains the Tibetan text in Romanization (a critical text based on two exemplars) with only a few brief sections translated into English.