Mkhas pa chen po Me pa ra dza. Born in Shambhala. Also called Ka lam pā tsha (i.e., Christopher Columbus), translated into Tibetan as Lham gyi rgyal po ('King of Boots'). 'Dzam gling rgyas bshad (='Dzam gling chen po'i rgyas bshad snod bcud kun gsal me long, "The Earlier (1820) Version of the Monumental Tibetan Geography of the World by Btsan po No mon han, calligraphed from an ancient manuscript from the library of Burmiok Athing," Dzongsar Chhentse Labrang (Gangtok 1981), p. 392. See T.V. Wylie, Was Christopher Columbus from Shambhala? Bulletin of the Institute of China Border Area Studies (Taipei), vol. 1 (July 1970), pp. 24-34.
Abbas Hamdani, Columbus and the Recovery of Jerusalem, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 99, no. 1 (January 1979), pp. 39-48. Columbus' explorations grew out of a medieval crusading mentality, and this is now generally ignored...
Abbas Hamdani, Ottoman Response to the Discovery of America and the New Route to India, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 101, no. 3 (July 1981), pp. 323-330.
Paul Kahle, A Lost Map of Columbus, Geographical Review, vol. 23, no. 4 (October 1933), pp. 621-638.
'kho lom 'bog de ni 'jig rten gyi khams zlum po'am ril ril yin pa'i srol byed yin / de nyid yo rob nas 1492 lor a ri'i sar thog mar sleb mkhan yang red / de nyid 'jig rten khams zlum po yin pa'i rigs pa bzhi bkod 'dug / mkhas rnams brtags dpyad gnang / de las lo 12 'jug a mi ri kha / zer ba'i mi gcig gis a ri'i sa khra bzo bzung lung par rang gi ming btags pas / da lta'i bar a mir kha'i yul lung zhes zer / a mer kha'i lung pa 1776 rang btsan byung nas da lta 1980 bar lo 244 song / rang btsan thob pa'i nyin dung ba'i dril bu phi lā tal phi ya'i 'grems ston khang la da lta'ang yod. Sgo mang Dge bshes Ngag dbang nyi ma, Works, vol. 6, p. 573-574. Notice the names for America and Philadelphia.
