Buton's History of Dharma

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Buton's History of Dharma (T. bu ston chos 'byung བུ་སྟོན་ཆོས་འབྱུང). A history of Buddhism in India and Tibet composed in 1322 by the Tibetan polymath Buton Rinchen Drub.

Full title

The full name of the work is:

  • Tibetan: bde bar gshegs pa'i bstan pa'i gsal byed chos kyi 'byung gnas gsung rab rin po che'i mdzod, བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པའི་བསྟན་པའི་གསལ་བྱེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འབྱུང་གནས་གསུང་རབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད།
  • English: A Treasury of Precious Scripture: A Religious History that Elucidates the Teaching of the Sugata

English translations

  • Obermiller, E.: The history of Buddhism (Chos ḥbyung) by Bu-ston. I The Jewellery of Scripture, II The history of Buddhism in India and Tibet. Harrassowitz, 1931–2; Reprinted 1986, New Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications.
  • Buton Rinchen Drub, 2013. Buton’s History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet. Translated by Ngawang Zangpo and Lisa Stein, Boston: Snow Lion. Publisher's page

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