The Treasury of Lives

Simon Wickham-Smith is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington. He has published several translations of Mongolian and Tibetan literature, including several volumes of Mongolian poety. He has also released many recordings of experimental music.

Published March 2012

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Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho. 1989.Bar du dge ba gzhung gi don. InDga' ldan chos 'byung baiDU r+ya ser po, pp. 487-503.TBRC W8224. Beijing: Krung go bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang.

Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho. 1980 (n.d.). Thams cad mkhyen pa drug pa Blo bzang rin chen Tsangs dbyangs rgya mtsho'i thung mong phyi'i rnam par thar pa du kū la ‘phro 'thud rab gsal ser gyi snye ma glegs bam dang po.Lhasa blockprint; reproduced in Gangtok.

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Sørensen, Per K. 1990.Divinity Secularised: An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Songs Ascribed to the Sixth Dalai Lama.Vienna: Arbeitskreis füre Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien.

Wickham-Smith, Simon. 2006. “Ban-de skya-min ser-min: Tsangs-dbyangs rGya-mtsho’s complex, confused and confusing relationship with sDe srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho as portrayed in theTsangs dbyangs rgya mtsho’i mgu glu.” In Bryan Cuevas and Kurtis Schaeffer (Eds)Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Leiden: Brill.

Wickham-Smith, Simon. 2011.The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai LamaLanham, MD: Lexington Books.

For English translations of poems by the Sixth Dalai Lama, please seeK. Dhondub's translations on Tibet Writes.

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