Chapter 5b - Kundeling Monastery print colophon

[Full title: Kundeling Monastery print colophon (Chandra 970; Chengdu 1271; Roerich 1093).]

This treasury of good words (containing) the history of the great systems of the impartial Doctrine in Āryāvarta and Tibet, the origin of the Doctrine and that of men who followed it, was compiled by the excellent scholar 'gos lo gzhon nu dpal. This necklace of all wise fortunate ones, is called the "BLUE ANNALS" (Deb ther sngon po).

The printing blocks are nowadays kept at the (monastery) of dga' ldan brtan blugs chos 'khor, better known by the name of dbus gtsang kun bde gling^[1] , (situated) in the vicinity of the Government seat to Lha sa.

May the deeds beneficial to living beings increase till the end of the World.

May the inexhaustible virtue, encompassing a wide area, increase perpetually according to the wishes (of living beings).

The ancient block-print edition of the History, called the "BLUE ANNALS", was preserved at yangs pa can. At the time of the Tibetan-Nepalese War^[2] , some of the printing blocks having been lost, we have prepared new ones to replace them. We also replaced by new ones those which had become unclear, in the interest of living beings, and deposited the printing. Blocks at the (monastery) of dbus gtsang kun bde gling. This colophon and the words of the solemn wish (praṇidhi) were composed by rta tshag pa ye shes blo bzang bstan pa'i mgon po.

The total of pages (in this volume) - 485.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

One of the four chief gling/gling bzhi/of lha sa (R).

[2]:

the War of 1792 A.D. (R).