རྦ་ (2011.1). Transcription of རྦ་བཞེད་ manuscript (Ziling 2011) : version 1.0

This text is a transcription of the རྦ་བཞེད་ reproduced as a photo-lithograph facsimile in volume 36 of Bod gyi lo rgyus rnam thar phyogs bsgrigs gnyis pa, published from Ziling in 2011 (see TBRC W1PD153537). This text is closely related to dBa' (2000) in palaeographic terms; the narrative also corresponds up to folio 4v., after which the text breaks off and turns to events in the life of the Buddha without significant punctuation or a change in writing style. This shows that the exemplar already combined the text of the རྦ་བཞེད་ with the second text and that the subsequent parts of the narrative had already been lost in the exemplar. The present copy can be assigned to the circa fourteenth century. We refer to this as rBa (2011.1) in our publications.