Section: 1
Complete: xylograph, ll. 6 recto + 6 verso of rather neat, square, dbu can print: in margin, left, title chos spyod and folio no. 74, right, recto and verso, Chinese signs CHCH, and the number '74'.
A poem addressed to a Dge 'dun dpal ldan 'phrin las bzang po, whose name resembles that of the XIIth Dalai Lama, Blo bzang 'phrin las rgya mtsho by Mkhas grub nor bzang rgya mtsho, in verses of 9 syllables.
Begins - /blo chen rnams kyis gzhal bar mi dpyod mod/
/'on kyang bstod tshigs chu yi zegs ma ni/
/.......
/mkhas grub nor bzang rgya mtshos mdzad ba'o/zi__//oM swasti/
/rab dkar dge tshogs sdong gis bskrun pa'i sku/
/'dun ldan rgya mtsho' re ba skong ba'i gsung/
/dpal ldan zhes bya ma lus gsal ba'i thugs/
/'phrin las bzang po rtag tu rgyal gyur cig/
The marginal chos spyod, which recurs in the case of other texts, may be, like spyod in 016.b (IOL Tib M 11), a class designation, not a title.



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