The Treasury of Good Sayings: A Tibetan History of Bodh

The Legs bshad mdzod, which is here edited and translated into English for the first time, is a history of Tibetan religion known as Bon. It gives a full account of this ancient religion, its origins and development, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two occasions. the reassembly of the scriptures dispersed at these times is major object of attention. In his introduction the editor makes an assessment of the historical value of the work and considers the extent of its reliability and factual accuracy. He has also, here and in the footnotes to the translation, indicated its sources which are extremely numerous and varied. The transliteration of the Tibetan text is followed by two indices of names and a short glossary of rare terms.

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Samten G. Karmay was born in Amdo, north eastern Tibet. He attended Bonpo monasteries first and then studied in Drepung a Buddhist monastery first and then studied in Drepung a Buddhist monastey in central Tibet. Yasuhiko Nagano born in 1946 in Saitama Japan. He studied French linguistics at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and continued his study at the graduate school university of Tokyo until he was nominated as a fellow of the tibetan seminar at the Toyo Bunko.