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Paṇ chen IV Bstan pa’i nyi ma (1781/2-1853/4)

Dictionary Definition: 

  • Aka Blo bzang bstan pa'i nyi ma.
  • Luciano Petech, The Missions of Bogle and Turner according to the Tibetan Texts, T'oung Pao, vol. 39 (1950), pp. 330-346, at p. 344 ff. Samuel Turner visited him at Thar pa gling when he was still a child in 1783.
  • Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 1260-1261.
  • There is a woodblock depiction in Tucci's Tibetan Painted Scrolls, figure 105 at p. 471.
  • For his collected works in 9 volumes, see TBRC no. W6205.

Bibliography:

  • Dbu ma'i mtha' dpyod las brtsams pa'i bla ma'i gsung rgyun bdud rtsi snying gi gsos sman.
    • Mtsho sngon nang bstan rig gnas sgyu rtsal zhabs zhu lte gnas zhabs zhu khang (Xining 2006), in 150 pages.
  • Rgyal rigs kyi bandhes dpal ldan daṇḍi'i gzhung lugs sarga gsum la sbyangs pa'i ngal ba cung zad tsam bsten pa'i tshe gzhung don dper brjod du bkod pa tshangs sras dgyes pa'i rol mo, published in India in the 1950's in 277 pp. Binder's title: Snyan ngag gi dper brjod tshangs sras dgyes pa'i rol mo.
  • Skyes rabs so bzhi pa'i shis brjod don 'grel. The actual title as it appears in his collected works (it's only 9 folios long!) is: Slob dpon dpa' bo'i rnam thar mdor bsdus dang skyes rabs so bzhi ba'i shis brjod kyi don 'grel bcas. It includes a brief biography of Śūra. MHTL no. 1833. Source: TBRC.
  • Yi dam rgya mtsho'i sgrub thabs rin chen 'byung gnas kyi lhan thabs rin 'byung don gsal.
    • Formed the basis for an album of deity illustrations by a Mongol artist known as the Rin lhan or Rin 'byung (full title: Rin 'byung snar thang brgya rtsa rdor 'phreng bcas nas gsungs pa'i bris sku mthong ba don ldan). See Lo Bue in Skorupski, ed., Indo Tibetan Studies (Tring 1990), p. 186. This album has been reproduced in Musashi Tachikawa, & M. Mori, S. Yamaguchi, Five Hundred Buddhist Deities, Senri Ethnological Reports 2, National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka 1995).