Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po)
by George N. Roerich | 1949 | 382,646 words | ISBN-10: 8120804716 | ISBN-13: 9788120804715
This page relates ‘Zur Geneology (v): Concerning zur chung ba’s Dates’ of the Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po)—An important historical book from the 15th century dealing with Tibetan Buddhism and details the spiritual doctrine and lineages of religious teachers in Tibet. This chapter belongs to Book 3 (Early translations of Secret Mantra).
Chapter 1c - The Zur Geneology (v): Concerning zur chung ba’s Dates
[Full title: The Zur Geneology (iv): Zur Genealogy from zur sh Akya seng ge]
Further, at the beginning of the period of the Iater spread of the Doctrine, the māhāparuṣa, the lo tsA ba rin chen bzang po was born. When he was fifty-seven, in the year Wood-Male-Tiger (shing pho stag—1014 A.D.) zur chung ba was born.
Zur chung ba was born in the third year after the birth of the Venerable mar pa in the year Water-Male-Mouse (chu pho byi ba—1012 A.D.).
The Fire-Female-Hare year (me mo yos—1027 A.D.), which is the first of the current years (‘das lo), is the 16th year of mar pa, and the 12th year of zur chung ba.
When zur chung ba reached the age of twenty-nine, mar pa was in his thirty-first year.
In the eighty-fifth year of the lo tsA ba rin chen bzang po, in the year Water-Ma Ie-Horse (chu pho rta—1042 A.D.), Atīśa arrived in mnga’ ris.
Thus zur chung ba is moreover a contemporary of ‘gos khug pa lhas btsas.
'Khon dkon mchog rgyal po was born in the Wood-Male-Dog year (shing pho khyi—1034 A.D.), when zur chung ba was twenty one.
Zur chung ba died from small pox in the year Wood-Male-Tiger (shing pho stag—1074 A.D.) at the age of sixty-one, 16 years having passed since the birth of the lo tsA ba blo ldan shes rab (born in 1059 A.D.).