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Dpal dbyangs

Dictionary Definition: 

  • See under Gnyan Dpal dbyangs.
  • Tôh. nos. 4355, 4446 through 4451 (although these works are included in the Tanjur, he was a Tibetan, not an Indian). See discussions of his works in Tucci, MBT, pp. 451-464.
  • D. Ueyama has published about his work on Mahāyoga.
  • Schaik, EDGP, pp. 190-191 lists titles of the group of his texts called Sgron ma drug ('Six Lamps').
  • Kammie Morrison Takahashi, Lamps for the Mind: Illumination and Innovation in dPal dbyangs's Mahāyoga, doctoral dissertation, Department of Religious Stuies, University of Virginia (August 2009).

Bibliography:

  • Gces pa bsdus pa'i 'phrin yig btsun pa chen po dpal dbyangs kyis bod rje 'bangs la brdzangs pa. Tôh. no. 4355. Dergé Tanjur, vol. CO, folios 226r.7-236v.5. In the miscellaneous (sna tshogs) section. Written by the Tibetan monk Sba Dpal dbyangs (Sba Ratna, his prior lay name being Sba Khri gzigs??) to the Tibetan Emperor Khri srong lde'u btsan and his subjects.
    • Text and German translation in Dietz, BBI, pp. 400-529. Composed in verse.
    • Bu ston Rin chen grub, Bde bar gshegs pa'i bstan pa'i gsal byed chos kyi 'byung gnas gsung rab rin po che'i mdzod, Drikung Partrun Khang (Dehradun 1989), p. 413: btsun pa dpal dbyangs kyis bod rje 'bangs la brdzangs pa gces pa bsdus pa'i 'phrin yig.
    • Rabsal, pp. 87-81.
  • Lta ba rin chen sgron pa. Tôh. no. 4451. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NO, folios 385v.4-386v.7.
  • Lta ba yang dag sgron pa. Tôh. no. 4447. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NO, folios 383v.4-384r.7.
  • Mtha'i mun sel sgron pa. Tôh. no. 4448. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NO, folios 384r.7-384v.6.
  • Rdo rje sems dpa'i zhu lan. See Pelliot's Dunhuang catalogue, Pelliot tibétain no. 470, and Lalou's catalogue, no. 837.
    • Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, pp. 432-435 for a sample of it in translation. Kenneth Eastman worked on the text and wrote an article as yet unpublished.
    • M. Kapstein translated this completely for his upcoming book, Buddhist Thought in Tibet.
    • Schaik, EDGP, p. 196.
    • Dalton, Crisis, pp. 130, 143.
    • Schaik, Sweet, p. 3, announces that Kammie Takahashi has done a study and translation of this text that is forthcoming. He points to 3 different Dunhuang versions.
    • Kammie Takahashi, Ritual and Philosophical Speculation in the Rdo rje sems dpa'i zhus lan, contained in: M. Kapstein & Sam van Schaik, eds., Aspects of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang, Brill (Leiden, forthcoming).
  • Rnal 'byor spyod pa'i lugs nges pa'i don la ji bzhin sgom thabs kyi sgron ma. Tôh. no. 4450. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NO, folio 385r.6-385v.4.
    • Schaik, EDGP, p. 190, with alternative title Man ngag rgum chung (in Bsam gtan mig sgron, simply called Rgum chung, or Sbum chung).
    • It also exists in Golden Tanjur. Final colophon reads: rnal 'byor spyod pa'i lugs nges pa'i don la ji bzhin bsgom thabs rdzogs s.ho // // man ngag dgum chung // gnyan dpal dbyangs kyis mdzad pa'o.
  • Thabs shes sgron pa. Tôh. no. 4449. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NO, folios 384v.6-385r.6.
  • Thugs kyi sgron ma. Tôh. no. 4446. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NO, folios 373r.2-383v.4.