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The inscription at RA Tshag Dgon-pa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

H. E. Richardson
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In Tibetan Studies, Peking, 1990, there was an article on an early inscription on a stone pillar at Ra Grwa dgon-pa in the Tolung valley west of Lhasa. Unfortunately I have mislaid it apart from a copy of the inscription which, as the authors say, contains words that are difficult to read and others which are completely illegible. In addition, as in all eye-copies, I found dubious readings; also there appeared to be a lack of punctuation signs, and the text was shown continuously, not divided into lines. It was, therefore, desirable to obtain a photographic record and this has been generously supplied by Mr Anthony Aris who visited the place in 1992. His assistant also made an eye-copy of the text.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , October 1995 , pp. 534 - 539
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1995

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References

1 Bca' brtsud is obscure. Perhaps Cha' ‘dsud;’ dzud ‘began to build, settled’.

2 Zhig-pa is commonly used of ruined buildings but I take it to refer here to the decay in religious practice following the suppression of the faith attributed to Glang Darma.

3 Rdo-rings dang them skas su; the construction is strange. Them skas usually means a stairway; here it seems to be the pedestal of the pillar in a series of steps as at Lcang-bu (Early Tibetan Inscriptions, 1–12).Google Scholar

4 re as a sort of negative exhortation is seen in the edict of Khri Lde-srong-brtsan recorded in the Chos-'byung of Dpa-bo Gtsug-lag, 3a, f. 128 and in Documents de Tauen Houang, 110.Google Scholar