• Aka Dge bshes Gung thang pa. Head of Tibetan mission which went to invite Atiśa from India. According to Mtshan-tho, he was b. in 1011, and served as Atiśa's translator in Dbus and Gtsang. Later on he returned once more to Nepal.
• Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 1197-1198.

Bibliography:

• Bstod pa brgyad bcu pa.
  • A biography of Atiśa in the form of a verse praise.
  • Helmut Eimer, Stotra: The Hymn of Praise in Eighty Verses, the Earliest Source for the Life Atiśa, contained in: Alaka Chattopadhyaya, et al., eds., Atish Dipankar Millennium Birth Commemoration Volume, Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha (Calcutta 1983), pp. 1-8.
  • Helmut Eimer, Nag tsho Tshul khrims rgyal ba's Bstod pa brgyad cu pa in Its Extant Version, Bulletin of Tibetology [Gangtok, Sikkim], new series no. 1 (1989), pp. 21-38.
  • Helmut Eimer, Hymns and Stanzas Praising Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna, contained in: Kameshwar Nath Mishra, ed., Glimpses of the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (Sarnath 1997), pp. 9-32.
  • Helmut Eimer, Testimonia for the Bstod-pa Brgyad-cu-pa: An Early Hymn Praising Dīpaṃkarasrījñāna, Lumbini International Research Institute (Lumbini 2003), in 66 pages.
  • Jo bo rje'i rnam thar gsol 'debs bstod pa, a manuscript in 5 folios. Drepung Catalog, p. 1717.
• Dge ba'i bshes gnyen nag tsho tshul khrims rgyal ba'i rnam thar.
  • Drepung Catalog, p. 1695. They think it's an autobiography. Perhaps. A manuscript in 10 folios.