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 (xvii): Sangs rgyas grags’ 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 (xvii): Sangs rgyas grags
Further, one named sangs rgyas grags, belonging to the gnyal family, was born at rgyas smad stag rtse. A small field belonging to him was carried away by water, after he had propitiated dzam+b+ha la. He then renounced the World. When a wealthy man of spu gu dor died of leprosy, and there was no one to carry the body away, he volunteered to wrap up the body, without distinguishing between filth and cleanliness (rtog med). He discovered a large quantity of gold near the bed of the dead man.
On his return, he became a disciple of khyung po khro bo of gra phyi khang dmar.
He spent his time performing the sādhana of yang dag (yang dag sgrub pa), during which he had a vision of the "yang dag of nine lamps.”[1]
Then he proceeded to gtsang. He studied the mdo, the Māyā (sgyu 'phrul) system, and other texts with a nephew of that bya chen po, who was a disciple of sgro sbug pa.
A wealthy man presented him with a hundred measures of barley.
Then he became learned in the mdo, the Māyā (sgyu 'phrul), etc.
Further, he heard the exposition of the mdo and Māyā (sgyu 'phrul) from myang nag mdo po, a disciple of sgro sbug pa, and his disciple lha rje mnga' seng ge, and became a great scholar. Rgya 'chin ru ba, a disciple of gnyal pa zhig po also met him, and studied much under him. He founded in his native place (the monastery) of rngo thog thel.