Social groups

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Wednesday 13 March 2019

'Go Klu gzigs

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Other names / Alternative spellings 


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

'Go


Period of activity 

IXth century? 



Biographical data 

'Go Klu gzigs was a contemporary of zhang Khri gzigs (ms. PT 1101 l. 1-2*) 


Titles 

lnga bcu rkang (ms. PT 1101 l. 1, see Uray 1982 p. 547)* 


Notes 

See Lalou 1939-1961 doc. n° 1101. 

*See Uray 1982 p. 547.


Tshar long Khong brtan

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Other names / Alternative spellings 

Tshar long Kheng brtan (ms. PT 1180, according to Lalou 1939-1961)


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

Tshar long 


Period of activity 

VIIIth century? 

IXth century? 


Reign of Mu ne brtsan



Reign of 'U 'i dum brtan


Biographical data 

Tshar long Khong brtan may have been a contemporary of various hardly identifiable characters mentioned in the doodles of the same document (ms. PT 1180): 

- nang po sTag sgra (a relatively common name, as in: Ngan lam sTag sgra klu gong, dBa's sTag sgra khong lod...)

- Yul gzung (faded) 

- nang rje po blon bTsan bzher (another quite common name, as in: Cog ro blon bTsan bzher lho gong, dBa's bTsan bzher mdo lod, see also a mChims bTsan bzher legs gzigs mentioned in dBa' bzhed 26a-30b - transl. Wangdu, Diemberger, Sørensen 2000, in Blon po bka' thang ch. 3...) 

- Mang kong 

- blon mDo bzang 

- nang rje pho blon sTag gzigs (again, a rather common name, see: a copyist named Wang sTag gzigs in ms. PT 1113, mentions of blon sTag gzigs in ms. PT 1104, PT 1295, PT 1861... see also "sTag zigs", as in: rNgegs blon sTag zigs rgan kol, Bam sTag zigs, etc.)

- nang rje po blon g.Yu bzher ... 


Titles 


Notes 

See Lalou 1939-1961 doc. n° 1180

Mention of Tshar long Khong brtan in ms. PT 1180 
(source: Gallica)


Thursday 7 March 2019

zhang Legs sum brtsan

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Other names / Alternative spellings 

zhang Leg sum brtsan (ms. PT 1491, damaged in PT 1297.3 l.1*) 

zhang Legs sum brtsan (ms. PT 1079 l. 4


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

zhang 


Period of activity 

VIIIth century?

IXth century? 


Reign of Mu ne btsan




Biographical data 

In the winter of a Sheep year, blon rGyal bzang (rGyal bzang 'dus kong ?), zhang Legs sum brtsan, and zhang Legs bzang gathered the assembly of Kva chu khrom (ms. PT 1079 l. 4

zhang Leg sum brtsan, at Hor phug, erected a gtshug lag khang khyer ... (a temple roof? ms. PT 1491

In (the summer of?) a Sheep year (827 or 839**), zhang lHa bzang (chen po zhang lHa bzang?) and zhang Leg sum brtsan and others gathered an assembly at Khrom sru ru (khr[o]m sru rur btab [pa'i lan]?, ms. PT 1297.3 l. 1, according to Takeuchi 1995 text 5 reading and transl., also in OTDO***).


Titles 

zhang (ms. PT 1079 l. 4, PT 1297.3 l. 1, PT 1491)


Notes 

See Lalou 1939-1961 doc. 1079, 1297, 1491 

Ms. PT 1079 transl. in Richardson 1991 

Ms. PT 1297.3 transl. in Takeuchi 1995 text 5

A fragment on zhang Legs sum brtsan in ms PT 1491
 
source: gallica.bnf.fr 
zhang leg sum brtsan / g hor phug du gtshug lag khang khyer gchig brtsig ste / bla phul nas d.. 

*Below a quick sketch illustrating why I prefer reading "..leg sum..." in ms. PT 1297,
rather than "... legs sum..." (Lalou 1939-1961) or "... stag sum..." (OTDO and Takeuchi 1995)

Ms. PT 1297.3
 
source: gallica.bnf.fr 

** Concerning this date, see Takeuchi 1995 p. 154

*** Or could it be read "...khr[...]m sru dur btab" ? In which case it would mean something like "... zhang lHa bzang, and zhang Leg sum brtsan, and others, khr[...]m sru, were buried".