Blue annals
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Tibetan script :
དེབ་ཐེར་ སྔོན་ པོ
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Wylie transliteration : deb ther sngon po
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
tʰèpteː ŋø̀mpo ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Têbdêr Ngoinbo
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THDL transcription : Depter Ngönpo
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Other spellings: Debther Ngönpo; Thepther Ngönpo
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Traditional :
«青史»
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Simplified :
«青史»
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Pinyin : Qīng shǐ
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The Blue Annals are one of the most famous and important works of traditional Tibetan historiography.
Structure and content
The work consists of 15 chapters and 102 sections and primarily depicts the spread of Buddhism in Tibet from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
history
The author Gö Lotsawa (1392–1481) completed the work in 1476. The first block print was made in the early 1480s.
The English translation made by the Soviet sinologist Ju. N. Rjorich with the help of the Tibetan scholar Gendün Chöpel was a sensation for western Tibetology and is still a classic today.
The Chinese translation by Guo Heqing was probably created in 1985 without the help of the English version by Rjorich.
Modern editions
- དེབ་ཐེར་ སྔོན་ པོ (Chengdu, སི་ ཁྲོན་ མི་རིགས་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན་ ཁང / Sìchuān mínzú chūbǎnshè 四川 民族 出版社 1984), 2 vols.
Translations
- George Nicholas Roerich : The Blue Annals . 2 volumes. 2nd Edition. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 1996, ISBN 81-208-0471-6 .
- Guō Héqīng 郭 和 卿: Qīng shǐ青史. བོད་ ལྗོངས་ མི་ དམངས་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན་ ཁང / Xīzàng rénmín chūbǎnshè 西藏 人民出版社 , Lhasa 2003, ISBN 7-223-01403-2 .
- О. В. Альбедиля, Е. Ю. Арьковой: Deb-ther sNgon-po. История буддизма в Тибете, VI – XV вв. Евразия, Saint Petersburg 2001, ISBN 5-8071-0092-1 .
See also
literature
- ཀོ་ ཤུལ་ གྲགས་ པ་ འབྱུང་ གནས, རྒྱལ་བ་ བློ་ བཟང་ མཁས་ གྲུབ: གངས་ ཅན་ མཁས་ གྲུབ་ རིམ་ བྱོན་ མིང་ མཛོད ( Xuěyù lìdài rénmíng cídiǎn 雪域 历代 人名 辞典 ; Lanzhou, ཀན་ སུ 'ཨུ་ མི་རིགས་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན་ ཁང / Gānsù mínzú chūbǎnshè 甘肃 民族 出版社 1992).
- དོན་ རྡོར་ བསྟན་ འཛིན་ ཆོས་ གྲགས: གངས་ ལྗོངས་ ལོ་རྒྱུས་ ཐོག་ གི་ གྲགས་ ཅན་ མི་ སྣ ( Xuěyù lìshǐ rénwù jiǎnjiè 雪域 历史 人物 简介 ; Lhasa, བོད་ ལྗོངས་ མི་ དམངས་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན་ ཁང / Xīzàng rénmín chūbǎnshè 西藏 人民出版社 1993).
- དུང་ དཀར་ བློ་ བཟང་ འཕྲིན་ ལས: དུང་ དཀར་ ཚིག་མཛོད་ ཆེན་ མོ ( Dōnggā Zàngxué dà cídiǎn 东 嘎 藏 学 大 辞典 ; Beijing, ཀྲུང་ གོའ ི་ བོད་ རིག་པ་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན ་ ཁང / Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国 藏 学 出版社 2002).
Web links
- 'Illustrated' Blue Annals . himalayanart.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ after Melvyn C. Goldstein (ed.): The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan . University of California Press 2001, p. 540.
- ↑ The word têbdêr is a loan word from Mongolian , but comes from an Arabic or Persian (دفتر"Notes, notebook") or ultimately to a Greek word ( διφθέρα , "leather, parchment").
- ↑ = Юрий Николаевич Рерих