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Gling za Chos skyid

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  • Aka Gling bza' Chos skyid. She is one of the most famous examples of a person who returned from the dead to tell the story about the world beyond. The Tibetan of her 'das log story appears in the 1977 publication entitled Three 'Das log Stories.
  • Cuevas, Travels, p. 13 et passim.
  • ± For sources on this 'Das log figure, see the article by L. Epstein in Tibet Journal, vol. 7, no. 4 (Winter 1982), p. 80.
  • W. Baruch, Un mystére tibétain: La dame Tchokyid de Ling, Cahiers du Sud, vol. 291 (1948), pp. 310-321.
  • A Czech scholar by the name of A.G. Sazykin has composed a dissertation on the subject of the 'das log story of Gling bza' Chos-skyid. This and other works are listed in Kolmas, 'Works on Tibet by Members…' (1982).