• Schuyler Cammann, The Panchen Lama's Visit to China in 1780, an Episode in Anglo-Tibetan Relations, Far Eastern Quarterly, vol. 9 (1949), pp. 3-19.
• M. Loo, The Biography of the 3rd Panchen Lama, Blo bZang dPal lDan Ye Shes dPal bZang Po, PhD dissertation, University of Washington (Seattle 1970). Unpublished.
• Luciano Petech, The Missions of Bogle and Turner according to the Tibetan Texts, T'oung Pao, vol. 39 (1950), pp. 330-346, at p. 332 ff. He was born on December 21, 1738 at Bkra shis rtse in Shangs valley. It is believed he knew some Sanskrit and could certainly converse in Hindi.
• S. Turner, An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, containing a narrative of a Journey through Bootan and Part of Tibet, to which are added views taken on the place by Davis and observations botanical, mineralogical and medical by R. Saunders (London 1800).
• W.A. Unkrig, Der Regen, der den Lotosblütenmund der Frommen voll erschliesst: Ein Andachtsbüchlein aus der Feder des Taschi-Lama Blo-bzan dPal-ldan Ye-ses, Ethnos (1950) nos 3-4, pp. 131-165. Translation of a work of his based on a Mongolian version.
• L.A. Waddell, The Recluse and the Rat, A Tibetan Tale, Indian Antiquary, vol. 25 (1896), pp. 105-109. Story attributed to Panchen Lama Blo ldan dpal ldan ye shes, but the colophon names the yogin Blo gros tshul khrims, who composed it at Brag skya Seng ge'i Phug.
• Clarke, HTP, p. 64.
• Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 1259-1260.
• There are woodblock depictions in Tucci's Tibetan Painted Scrolls, figure 103 at p. 462, figure 104 at p. 467.
• On the idea that he was killed through poisoning, see Dhungel, Nepal-Tibet, p. 191.
• Shakya, Self-Arisen, p. 250 (here spelled Lama dPal-ldan Yeshe bkra-shis).

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