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

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SO ishing there. It is only in the second part that he depicts the mythic land of Kälacakra (dus-kyi 'khor-lo j

, i.e. Sambhala. He presents a description of the road leading there, the fabulous land itself and the legendaries of the kings who devoted their lives to the propagation of the Holy Teaching (

Kälacakra)

. Csorna studied this legendary historical work thoroughly. This is proved by his notebook, preserved in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (a gift from T. Duka). It contains Csoma's attempts at Sanskrit-Hungarian etymologies. It also includes the brief extract of the éambhala lam-yig. The fact that this extract is to be found in a notebook entirely devoted to the recording of what he took toke Hungarian etymology testifies to the assumption that Csoma was motivated in his analysis of this historical work by the hope of being on the track of the country of origin of the Hungarians. Cf. SchP No. 445c; - Vostrikov p. 141; - A. Grünwedel, Der Weg nach éambhala des dritten Gross-Lama von bKra-áis-lhun-po blo bzan dPal Idan Ye ses: SBAW XXIX (1915), 3 Abhandlung. No. 16