rTsang lha pu dar

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Other names / Alternative spellings 

Social groups (status, family, lineage...) 

lha deity 

Period of activity 

Myth 

Biographical data 

Pu dar, deity of rTsang (ms. ITJ 734 l. 7r295-298). 

rTsang srin Pod de, threatened rTsang rje pva 'a, and rTsang shen sNyal ngag was invited [to perform the ransom rites], rTsang lha Pu dar was invoked... (ms. ITJ 734 l. 7r293-300).

Titles 

lha (ms. ITJ 734 l. 7r295, 7r298) 

Notes 

Ms. ITJ 734 transl. in Thomas 1957 p. 93, see also Samten G. Karmay's article "Concepts of Territorial Organisation and their Transformation into Buddhist Sacred Sites" p. 37 (in Karmay 2005). 

See also rTsang lha dar (the elder) and rTsang lHa bye'u (the younger), sons of 'O de gung rgyal and Bya bza' mThong sman in mKhas pa lde'u 129na-129ba (2010 ed. p. 218, "'o de gung rgyal bya ba de / [...] khab bya bza' mthong sman dang bshos pa'i sras gcen rtsang lha dar / gcung rtsa lha bye'u /"). 

See also "gTsang lha phu dar", a son of 'Od de gung rgyal and Thang nga gtsang mo, in the XVIIth c. Dam can bstan srung gi rnam thar (2003ed. p. 276, "...'od de gung rgyal gyis [...] kha la gtsang du byon nas thang nga gtsang mo dang bshos pas gtsang lha phu dar khrungs / skyid ro ljang sngon du thang nga skyid mo dang bshos pas skyid lha bya ma khrungs /... ").