Qamuγ-yi ayiladuγči boγda tsongkhaba-yin čadig

GDC Mong C1 : 1

ET ? (Tsongkhapa biography)

Xyl., pothi, 53,5 : 17,2 cm (45,5 : 12,3), (ka) fol. 1-16r, (kha) fol. 1, (ga) fol. 10 twice, (ca) fol. 4-67r (fol. 11-21 are handwritten with blue ink on white European paper), (cha) fol. 1-56r, (ja) fol. 1-44r, (nya) fol. 1-40r, (ta) fol. 1, 3-33r, (tha) fol. 1-15r, (da) fol. 1-7r (two identical copies of this chapter), fol. 1 (ka): 10 lines, fols. 2r-3r: 16 lines, rest r: 30 lines, v: 31 lines, left margin r: Tibetan chapter number followed by Mongolian pagination, text framed in black; fols. 1-3r of chapter ka set in red ornamental frame. Russian paper, on some fols. factory stamp: ko[…]vaevskoj fabriki; text between two wooden boards; illustrations in red on fols. 1-3 of chapter ka. The cover title is bilingual Tibetan and Mongolian, the text itself is written in Mongolian. Throughout the text Tibetan glosses, some printed, some hand-written, one by pencil; the last fol. of chapter da is in Tibetan; incomplete.

Cover-title: rJe thams cad mkhyen pa tsong kha chen po’i rnam thar go sla bar brjod pa bde legs kun gyi ’byung gnas zhes bya ba las le’u dang po bzhugs so/ Qamuγ-yi ayiladuγči boγda tsongkhaba-yin čadig medeküi kilbar-iyar ügülügsen sayin amuγulang bükün γarquyin oron kemegdekü-eče angqan bölög orosibai::

Inc. (ka) (1r) (1) tügemel-ün ejen ilaγuγsan erketü (2) yeke včir dhar-a-luγ-a ilγal ügei činar-tu:

Term. (da) (6v) (15) aliba küsegsen (16) kereg bügüde öbesüben bütüjü asida (17) sayin buyan-u čoγ-iyar jirγaqu-yin (18) öljei qutuγ orosituγai::

Col. (da) (6v19-30) boγda-yin namtar-un keb-ün temdeg irüger selte-yi ügülegsen sayin buyan-u qur-a-yi orosiluγ-či kemekü egüni šaky-a-yin ayaγ-a tegimlig sayin oyutu kemekü ber nayiraγuluγsan sayin buyan bolqu boltuγai:: tngri-yin tedkügsen-ü tabin jirγaduγar on čaγaγčin γaqai jil-dür: čaqar köbegetü čaγan bünügen-e-yin sumun-u qariyatu čaγan aγulayin süm-e-dür keb-tür bütügebei:: sayin buyan delgereged nasu qutuγ nemekü boltuγai::

The biography of Tsongkhapa, composed by the Čaqar gebsi Blo bzang Tshul khrims (1740-1810) in 1791, and printed in the Čaγan aγula süme of the bordered white banner of the Čaqar. The xyl. seems to be identical with the one in Kaschewsky 1971. It includes in chapter tha the summary of Tsongkhapa’s vita, Boγda tsongkhaba-yin gegen-ü namtar-un quriyangγui udq-a, and in chapter da the Boγda tsongkhaba-yin namtar-un jirüken. Chapter da contains in an additional fol. 7, apart from a short Tibetan account of the printing process, the following printing remark at the bottom of the fol.: ene keb nigen mingγan naiman jaγun dalan on-u qaburun segül sarayin sayin edür tegüskejü gülüng naγur-un dačang-un dergedekisü-ün sayin bayišing dotor orošiγulan jalaγdabai: “This printing block was finished on an auspicious day in the last month of spring 1870, and was installed in the hall next to the Gülüng Naγur monastery.”¹ The xyl. of the Ernst collection thus stems from Buryatia.²