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The Blue Annals is a landmark in the historical literature of Tibet composed by a well known scholar and translator Gos lo-tsa-ba-gZon-nu dpal (1392-1481 A.D.). It is the main source of information for all later historical compilations in the Land of Snows. This work is invaluable inasmuch as it establishes a firm chronology of events of Tibetan history and works out in detail the list of the names of famous religious teachers and their spiritual lineage. The work is divided into fifteen chapters, each dedicated to the history of a particular school or sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It provides a comparative study of the chronological data given by T`ang Annals, Blue Annals, and Tunhuang chronicles. The Blue Annals appears to be a faithful reproduction of the list given in the T`ang Annals with minor differences. The book concludes with the portrayal of the origin, etc. of the communities of the four schools. It contains indexes for Sutras and Sastras, Personal Names and Book Titles and Personal Names (Tibetan), etc. (Source)

Citation	Roerich, George N., and Gendün Chöpel. The Blue Annals. Parts 1 & 2. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2007. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283021/mode/2up.

Gö Lotsāwa on the Tsen Tradition of the Dharma Treatises of Maitreya

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Introduction PART I Book I The Beginning of the story of the Doctrine.- The Royal Chronide.-- The Period of the Early Spread of the Doctrine I I Later Spread of the Doctrine The story of the Beginning of the Period of the Later Page I Spread of the Doctrine 63 III The Early Translations of the Mantrayana Tantras .. IV The N('w Tantras (gsan-snags gsar-ma) and the Followers of the "Path and Fruit" (Lam- 'Bras) Doctrine V The Venerable Lord (Jo-bo-rje, Atisa) and his 102 204 spiritual Lineage . 241 VI rNog lo-tsa-ba, Pa-tshab lo-tsa-ba and their Lineage. The origin (of the teaching) of the Miidhyamika, the Nyaya and the "Five Treatises" of Maitreya-Asanga 328 VII The Preaching of the Tantras 351 PART II VIII The Spiritual Lineage of the Lord Translator Mar-pa which was known as Dwags-po bKabrgyud 399

IX The Book on Ko-brag-pa and Ni-gu 726 X The Kalacakra 753 XI The Mahamudra 839 XII The Early, Later and Intermediate Lineages of zi-byed 867 XIII The (system) of gCod-yul and Kha-rag-pa 982 XIV The Cycle of the Mahakaru:Q.ika and that of the Vajravah 1006 XV The origin of religious schools SUCCi as the four Tshogssde, and others, Queries and replies (concerning the ·'Blue Annals", zu-Ian). Th~ story of the printing of this edition 1062

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Sūtras & Sastras (Sanskrit) 1095 Personal Names (Sanskrit) 1104 Book Titles (Tibetan) 1123 Personal Names (Tibetan) 1138 Chinese Names 1265 Mongol Names 1267

List of Errata 1269

1. 'gos lo tsā ba gzhon nu dpal (1392-1481). deb ther sngon po. khreng tu'u: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1984.