Thubten Kunga Chashab, A Study of Religious Expenditure in Tibet in the 19th Century Based on the Biography of Dharmabhadra, Acta Orientalia, vol. 63 (2002), pp. 175-206. Among his other names are Dpal bzang rdo rje, Dbang phyug chos bzang. He was said to be an incarnation of Phyag rdor nor bu, although not formally recognized as such. He was 2nd son of a nomad family, and spent his youth as a shepherd. Among his teachers was Mkhas grub Ngag dbang rdo rje (1720-1803) and Spel khang Paṇḍi ta Blo bzang dge 'dun (the latter taught him Sanskrit grammar and other language arts). He studied poetry with a Bon teacher named Khri chen Mi 'gyur gtsug phud dbang rgyal (b. 1757).
Thubten Kunga Chashab, The Lives of Dngul chu Yab sras: Including a Study of Religious Expenditure and Tibetan Monetary System in the 19th Century, M. Phil. Thesis, University of Oslo (2001).
Quite a few works are listed in Drepung Catalog, pp. 2080-2082.
Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 752-753.
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Bod kyi brda'i bye brag so sor phye ba dag byed gsal ba'i me long.
A 23-folio woodblock print. Jackson, Misc., no. 1186, 1189/8.
Mngon brjod kyi bstan bcos rgya mtsho'i chu thigs [A Drop from the Great Ocean of the Classical Commentaries on Poetics].
ACIP data version: S6391M.ACT. Also have (long sized) poṭhi woodblock print version.
This was also published in Blo bzang dgongs rgyan series, vol. 1 (Drepung Loseling, Mundgod), as well as in Gangs can rig brgya'i sgo 'byed lde mig, series vol. 3 (Beijing 1987), pp. 10-28.
Contained in Blaṅ 479-501. Completed in 1803 at Dngul chu Dga' ldan rtse.
A word-for-word commentary on this work has been published: Mngon brjod kyi 'grel pa btus pa bsgrigs legs bshad 'dren pa'i dung sgra, Mi rigs dpe skrun khang (Beijing 1991).
Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, no. B6723/8. In his colophon he cites a Lo tsā ba Tshe brtan rgyal mtshan gyis mdzad pa'i Sngags klog gser gyi yang zhun. Sngags kyi yi ge'i klog tshul dngos bstan pa mdor bsdus kyi 'grel pa dper brjod dang bcas pa, Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, no. B6722/9 (authorship not especially clear). Directions for pronouncing Sanskrit mantras.
Snyan ngag gi bstan bcos rgya mtsho'i snying po ["Essence of the Ocean," being a Treatise on Classical Poetry].
Snyan ngag gi dper brjod dang mtshungs pa gsal byed kyi sgra'i dogs gcod [A Resolution of Points concerning Metaphors and Similes in Classical Poetics].
Snyan ngag me long gi nang nas gab tshig gi snyan ngag logs su bkol te bshad pa [A Treatise Addressing Separately certain Esoteric Expressions found in the "Mirror of Classical Poetics"].
Sum rtags rnam bshad kyi dgag lan, Dngul chu bla brang (? 2000?). Source: TBRC.
Sum rtags rnam bshad si tu'i zhal lung. Source: TBRC.
Tha ma ka dang / myos byed / sgog btsong bcas pa'i nyes dmigs gsal bar ston pa, Sherig Parkhang (Dharamsala 1990).
According to Berounsky, Lapsed, p. 204, the same title has been published with an attribution to Padmasambhava. Tha ma kha / myos bye / sgog btsong bcas pa'i nyes dmigs gsal bar ston pa, contained in: U rgyan padma 'byung gnas kyi bka' chems, Urgyan Dorje (Sumra 1977), pp. 219-249.
English translation of the opening part in Berounsky, Lapsed, pp. 202-203.
