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Iconography: Text Collections (Abhaya Group)

Iconography: Text Collections

Iconography Source Texts - Chronological Order:

Pandita Abhayakara Gupta mdzad pa'i chos skor (Vol 75 P 3-324):
Lha so so sna tshogs kyi sgrub thabs rgyud sde sna tshogs nas bsdus pa dang rgyud sde mtha' dag gcig tu ma nges pa rnams thun mong du bkod pa.

1. Pandita Abhayakara Gupta (mdzad pa'i chos skor) (Vol 75 P 3-324).

2. sgrub thabs rgya rtsa (Pa Tshab) (Vol 75-P 324-to Vol 76).

3. sgrub thabs rgya tsa (bari) (vol 77 p 1-119).

4. lha so so'i sgrub thabs rgya mtsho (grags pa rgyal mtshan) (Vol 77 pa 120-514). Sadhanasamucchaya.

5. sgrub thabs bcu gcig (slob dpon dri med lhas) (vol 77 p 523-657).

Sadhanamala edited by Benoytosh Bhattacharya. Oriental Institute Baroda, 1968. (2 volumes). Gaekwad's Oriental Series, Numbers 26 and 41. First edition 1925. (Sanskrit edition).


- Vajravali (Abhayakara Gupta): Deities, Mandalas (Abhayakaragupta, Sanskrit and Tibetan). (TBRC 1391 Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur (Rgyud 'grel) Vol-075. Folio 1-188).

- Nishpannayogavali (Abhayakara Gupta). (TBRC 1391 Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur (Rgyud 'grel) Vol-075. Folio 188-301).

- Jyotirmanjari (Abhayakara Gupta). (TBRC 1391 Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur (Rgyud 'grel) Vol-075. Folio 302-338).

- Kriyasamucchaya (Darpan Acharya). (TBRC 1392 Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur (Rgyud 'grel). Vol-076. Folio 76-497).

- Patsab Gyatsa (Patsab Lotsawa Tsultrim Gyaltsen). (TBRC 1391 Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur (Rgyud 'grel) Vol-075. Folio 338 to Vol-076. Folio 1-95).

- Lha Soso Dub Tab Gyatso (Pandita Dragpa Gyaltsen).

- Drub Tab Gyatso (Sanskrit: Sadhanasamucchaya) (Lotsawa Dragpa Gyaltsen). Tibetan Title: sgrub thabs rgya mtsho (TBRC 1393 Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur(Rgyud 'grel) Vol-077, folio 120-514).

--- Drub Tab Gyatso (Thartse Panchen Namka Chime, edited version).
- Bari Gyatsa (Bari Lotsawa Rinchen Drag). Tibetan Title: (short) ba ri brgya rtsa. (long) lhag pa'i lha rnams kyi sgrub thabs kun las btus pa ba ri brgya rtsa'i rgya gzhung rnams. (TBRC 1393. Sde-dge Bstan-'gyur (Rgyud 'grel) Vol-077. Folio 1-119).

--- Drub Tab Gyatsa (Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, based on the Bari Gyatsa). Tibetan Title: (short) lha tshogs rnams kyi mngon rtogs rjes gnang gi cho ga dang bcas pa'i tho yig mun sel sgron me. (long) sgrub thabs brgya rtsa nas bshad pa'i lha tshogs rnams kyi mngon rtogs rjes gnang gi cho ga dang bcas pa'i tho yig mun sel sgron me.

Jeff Watt [updated 12-2018]

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