Terjék József: Collection of Tibetan MSS and Xylographs of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.

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32 The author is Taranatha (1575 -?), the outstanding master of the ío -nan-pa sect, who gives a colourful description of Buddha's life in legendary episodes, from his descent from the Tusita heaven to his departure into the Nirvana (i.e. into death). Cf. MHTL Vol. I, p. 26, No. 503; TPS p. 131, p. 354. A. Csoma de Körös, Enumeration of Historical and Grammatical Works: JASB (1838), p. 149.