Tibetan History and Geography

Here I would like to present seventeen lists of Sakyapa monasteries.
This text derives from seven old appendixes that I had compiled last year for a not yet published translation of a concise history of the Sakyapa by Chogye Rinpoche.  Each of them was a list or lists of Sakyapa monasteries. Several were published.
They are actually seventeen lists in all, with sixteen sources and one composite list.
List A: The first is my “List of All Known Sakyapa Monasteries,” a composite list of 510 monasteries.
The seventeen other lists are six from published sources and eleven from a major unpublished source:

List B: Two Lists of Sakyapa Monasteries in Khams by Dezhung Rinpoche
List C: Branches Near or Linked with Sakya Mother Monastery listed by Cassinelli and Ekvall
List D: The Branches of Gongkar Dorjeden by D. Jackson
List E: The Branches of Nalendra Listed by Legs bshad sbyin pa
List F: The Branches of Phenyül Nalendra by D. Jackson
List G. Eleven Lists of Mainly Sakyapa Monasteries from the Autobiography of dPal ldan chos skyong
List H: Monasteries Associated with Ngorchen contributed by J. Hembel.
I present them now as an Academia.com Draft, inviting other interested scholars to use them or to suggest possible future collaborations.

A comprehensive study on the history of the Tibetan Kingdom of Mang yul Gung thang, the realm of the Gung thang kings, situated between the dPal khud mtsho and sPu rang, Western Tibet. Part 1 contains a diplomatic edition of the Tibetan text and a translation of the chronicle Gung thang rgyal rabs (written 1749), a study of the life of its author Kah thog rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu (1698-1755) and a critical introduction to the chronicle.

rMi lam rdzun bshad sgyu ma'i sgra dbyangs chen mo – Also Known As – Sham bha la pa'i lam yig.

Part 1: A transcript of a manuscript of the text.

Part 2: An unpublished paper written in 1989 surveying the text.

A note to scholars: For my published work on this text, see my "Itineraries to Sambhala"; pp. 485-499 [especially p. 488] in José Ignacio Cabezón and Roger R. Jackson eds., Tibetan Literature – Studies in Genre – Essays in Honor of Geshe Lhundup Sopa (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1996). The 1989 paper I provide here in Part 2 is juvenilia, but it offers a rough overview of the entire content of the rMi lam rdzun bshad sgyu ma'i sgra dbyangs chen mo.
The transcript of the manuscript requires some context. As noted in p. 1n1 of the paper, my access to the manuscript was limited to photocopies of photographs Dr. Edwin Bernbaum took in Zanskar. In the photocopies I had, the folio sides of the text are represented in images that are about 4.5" x  .75", and the quality of the images is extremely poor. I transcribed the text back in the last millennium, with younger eyes. I had intended to produce a polished edition of the text, but other projects and interests attracted my attention.
The transcript I provide here is far from perfect (as is the manuscript), but I make it available in the hope that it will be temporarily useful, and inspire others to work on the text. In addition to the manuscript Edwin Bernbaum photographed, Berthold Laufer and Giuseppe Tucci had access to manuscripts of the text. I made perfunctory efforts to locate their manuscripts, without success. However, given the incredible treasures currently being revealed in Tibet we have every reason to hope that additional witnesses will become available.

Postscript 25 July 2020: After I published the above on Academia.edu, Dan Martin kindly directed me to a 14 ff. dbu med manuscript scan published online by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center [BDRC; formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)] under the title: "man lung gu ru'i lam yig" with the BDRC accession no. W3PD981, and the source given as: "khams a 'dzom dgon du bzhugs pa'i dpe rnying dpe dkon/ Volume 3 Pages 21 - 48." A precursory comparison of the BDRC MS and the one I transcribed shows that it contains basically the same text, but exhibits substantially different readings in places. More grist for the Tibetological mill.

Postscript 31 Dec 2023: On this text and the complex question of its authorship see now the article by sNyan bzang gYung drung tshes ring, "'Lo tsā ba Sham bha la pa' 'tshol zhib" published online 29 Dec 2023 on the bodrigpa.org website:

https://bodrigpa.org/archives/3934

This paper contains a wealth of new information on the subject, but seems to be unaware of my studies of the text.

This paper looks at the emergence of the Yang Sang Chu region of lower Pemakö as a focal point for contemporary Pemakö pilgrims. It looks at the life and guidebooks of the 20th century Pemakö Tertön, Dudjom Drakngak Lingpa (a.k.a. Tertön Ngagey), and how these consecrated the Yang Sang Chu tributary region of the Siang River in Arunachal Pradesh and firmly placed there the navel and secret chakras of the goddess Vajravārāhī, along with several of the 24 Saṃvara/Hevajra pīṭha. This illustrates the most recent stage in the progressive opening of the hidden land, one that has reached further south into lower Pemakö than ever before and placed what was previously its most transcendent sacred center within the reach of modern-day pilgrims.

As of 10 June 2020, HOLLIS  and Google searches produced four reviews of The Amnye Ma-Chhen Range  and Adjacent Region: a Monographic Study (Lionello Lanciotti (1956) in English, Rolf A Stein (1956) in French and, in German, Ulrich Schweinfurth (1958) and Dominik Schröder (1958). The small number of reviews may be due to the lesser-known areas AMCR addressed, which has encouraged me to write this review and include place names as they existed in 2020.