Aryana Libris

Author : Thondup Tulku
Title : Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet
Year : 2002

Link download : Thondup_Tulku_-_Masters_of_meditation_and_miracles.zip

Author's Note. I have capitalized the root letters (Ming gZhi) of each word in the transliterated Tibetan in order to ensure a correct and easy reading. For the phonetic transcription of Tibetan, I mainly followed the Nalanda Translation Committee guidelines provided by Larry Mermelstein. Throughout the book I have added words in parentheses to make the meaning of the quoted texts clear or to provide their Sanskrit, Tibetan, or English equivalents. I have also provided a number of alternative translations or synonyms in square brackets. In the bibliography,] stands for "folio," the Tibetan style of pagination; and p for "page" according to the Western style. In the notes, the titles of texts quoted are indicated by abbreviations, such as BC for sNying Thig Gi brGyud 'Debs Byin rLabs Ch'ar rGyun discovered by Jigme Lingpa. The full titles are alphabetically listed in "Works Cited" at the end of this book. When a text in the Tibetan pagination style is quoted, the letters signifying the title are followed by the folio number, which is followed by the letter a or b to designate the front or back side of the folio. This is then followed by the line number. For example, "BC Iaii." Page and line numbers without the letter a or b indicate the Western style of pagination. ...