The Blue Annals Parts I & II

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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

Book Excerpt

IntroductionI

PART I
Book I: The Beginning of the story of the Doctrine.—The Royal
Chronicle.—The Period of the Early Spread of the Doctrine1
- II: Later Spread of the Doctrine: The story of the Beginning of the Period of
  the Later Spread of the Doctrine63
- III: The Early Translations of the Mantrayāna Tantras ...102
- IV: The New Tantras (gsan-snags gsar-ma) and the Followers of the "Path
  and Fruit" (Lam-'Bras) Doctrine204
- V: The Venerable Lord (Jo-bo-rje, Atisa) and his spiritual Lineage241
- VI: rNog lo-tsa-ba, Pa-tshab lo-tsa-ba and their Lineage. The origin (of the
  teaching) of the Mādhyamika, the Nyāya and the "Five Treatises" of
  Maitreya-Asaṅga328
- VII: The Preaching of the Tantras351

PART II
- VIII: The Spiritual Lineage of the Lord Translator Mar-pa which
  was known as Dwags-po bKa-brgyud399
- IX: The Book on Ko-brag-pa and Ni-gu726
- X: The Kālacakra753
- XI: The Mahāmudrā839
- XII: The Early, Later and Intermediate Lineages of zi-byed867
- XIII: The (system) of gCod-yul and Kha-rag-pa982
- XIV: The Cycle of the Mahākaruṇika and that of the Vajrāvali1006
- XV: The origin of religious schools such as the four Tshogssde, and others,
  Queries and replies (concerning the "Blue Annals", zu-Ian). The story
  of the printing of this edition1062

INDEXES

Sūtras & Sastras (Sanskrit)1095
Personal Names (Sanskrit)1104
Book Titles (Tibetan)1123
Personal Names (Tibetan)1138
Chinese Names1265
Mongol Names1267
List of Errata1269

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

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