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

Catalogue

65 12. Byan-chub lam-gyi sgron-ma "The lamp of the way to enlightenment." Pothi, Tibetan paper (9.5 cm x 56 cm), Xylograph (6.3 cm x 47.3 cm), ff. 1-6, 6 lines. Illustration (p. 66): l

v left: lna-brgya'i mgon-po A-ti-áa, centre: rgyal-ba'i íod-pan áakya'i tog, right: pad-dkar 'jin-pa 'Brom-ston-rje. Begins (l

V): rgya-gar skad-du | Bo-dhi-pa-tha-pra-di-pam | bod skad-du Byah-chub lam-gyi sgron-ma | Colophon (6

r): Byan-£hub lam-gyi sgron-ma slob-dpon ihen-po Dpal mar-me-mjad ye-áes-kyis mjad-pa rjogs-so | rgya-gar-gyi mkhan-po Di-pam-ka-ra sri-jna-na dan | boa-kyi lo-ccha-ba dge-slon Dge-ba'i blogros-kyis bsgyur-£in £us-te gtan-la phab-pa'o | Additional colophon: £has-(£hos)-sbyin rgya-íher spei phyir-du | Chos-grva Chen-pa Bkra-Sis lhun-po'i glin-du par-du bsgrubs-pa, dge-legs 'phel I The author of this famous treatise, which discusses the way to enlightenment is Dpal Mar-me-mjad ye-ses (DIpamkara srljnäna) also known as AtTsa (982-1052), the leading figure in Tibet's second conversion (phyi-dar). He himself translated the original Sanskrit work (Bodhipathapradlpa

) into Tibetan, with the assistance of Dge-ba'i blo-gros. When the text was canonized it was assigned to the 31st chapter of the Mdo'grel part of the Tanjur (dbu-ma). The systematic Lam-rim ihen-mo (Csoma-Collection, No. 14), written many centuries later, mentions this work as its principal source of inspiration.