Letters Composed by Dalai Lama XIII
Letters by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama
ཀུན་མཁྱེན་པཎ་ཆེན་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་སོགས་མཆོག་དམན་རྣམས་ལ་གནང་བའི་ཆབ་ཤོག་གི་རིམ་པ་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བཀོད་པ།
Kun gzigs pan chen thams cad mkhyen pa sogs mchog dman rnams la gnang ba'i chab shog gi rim pa phyogs gcig tu bkod pa. This list (with a few added notes) was originally based on a separate woodblock print edition, not currently available to me, although the same collection is in the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's Collected Works (try this TBRC link).
1. From Darjeeling.
2. BKRAS LHUN YONGS ZUR LHO SPRUL. Iron Dog (1910). From Darjeeling.
3. To KHRI NGAG DBANG NOR BU'I SPRUL SKU.
4. [3v] To MTSHAN ZHABS MKHAN CHE.
5.
6. To Buriat Kanjurwa. Iron Dog (1910). From Darjeeling.
7. To DKA' RAM PA TSHUL KHRIMS STOBS 'BYOR of Urga. Water Mouse (1912). On p. 5r.1, Dorjiev is mentioned.
8. [6r] To A RIG RI KHROD PA BYAMS PA RGYA MTSHO. Water Ox (1913).
9. To BKRAS LHUN YONGS 'DZIN LO CHEN SPRUL SKU. Water Tiger (1914).
10. To same.
11. [8v] To MDO SMAD BRAG DKAR SPRUL SKU.
12. To KLU SGRUB SPRUL SKU 'PHRIN LAS RGYA MTSHO.
13. To Lama of CHU BU SHRÎ DGON GSAR.
14. To same as no. 12.
15. To SDE DGE SA SPYOD PA. From Norbu Lingka.
16. To LCANG SKYA HU THUG THU.
17. [11r]
18. To Buriat RAB 'BYAMS PA NGAG DBANG LEGS BSHAD. From Urga.
19. To Buriat PHUN TSHOGS (Dorjiev mentioned on p. 12r.7). From CHING WANG KHU RAL.
20. To SNGAGS ZUR BLO BZANG DPAL LDAN CHOS KYI DBANG PHYUG.
21. [13r] To RDZOGS CHEN SPRUL SKU THUB BSTAN CHOS KYI RDO RJE.
22. To same as no. 11. From Wu-tai Shan.
23. To same as no. 20.
24. To BSHAD SGRUB BSTAN DAR.
25. To KYAI RDOR GRWA TSHANG at BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL.
26. [16r] To LHA BTSUN SKAL BZANG BRTSON 'GRUS.
27. To E WAM CHOS 'KHOR GLING at BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL.
28. To SMAD RGYUD GRWA TSHANG at BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL.
29. To THOS BSAM GLING at BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL.
30. To GSO RIG GZHAN PHAN GLING at BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL.
31. [20r] To tulku of 'JAM DBYANGS BZHAD PA.
32.
33.
34. To tulku of MKHAN PO NGAG DBANG DGE LEGS.
35. To MDZOD PA of BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL named SKAL BZANG BRTSON 'GRUS.
36. To DGA' LDAN BYAMS PA GLING at SKU 'BUM.
37. [22r] STONG 'KHOR HU THOG THU.
38. To A RO SPRUL SKU.
39. To 'BRAS SGO MANG 'BUL SDUD SPRUL SKU BSTAN PA'I RGYAL MTSHAN.
40. [24r] To LO CHEN SPRUL SKU BLO BZANG DPAL LDAN RIN CHEN RGYA MTSHO.
41. To WA BA KLU SGRUB SPRUL SKU 'PHRIN LAS RGYA MTSHO.
42. To same.
43. To same. Fire Snake (1917).
44. To NYIN LUNG DZA SPRUL 'JAM DPAL ROL PA'I BLO GROS. Iron Bird (1921).
45. To HO CHING G.YON RU'I BLA MA BLO BZANG BSTAN PA'I RGYAL MTSHAN.
46. [27r] To MKHAS GRUB NYI MA.
47. To BSKAL BZANG BSTAN 'DZIN, a Buriat. Earth Monkey (1908).
48. Wood Rabbit (1915).
49. To Panchen. Wood Rabbit (1915).
50. To same. Wood Rabbit (1915).
51. To same. Wood Rabbit (1915). Note that he sends relics (p. 29v.5 ff.).
52-54. To same. Earth Horse (1918).
55-58. [32r] To same. Earth Sheep (1919).
59-60. [35r] To same. Iron Monkey (1920).
61. Water Dog (1922).
62. To BKA' TSHAB BLA MA on army matters (BYAMS PA BSTAN 'DZIN). Wood Dragon (1904).
63. To BKA' TSHAB G.YU THOG PA.
64-65. To same. Wood Dragon (1904).
66. [40r] To 'BRUG KRONG DPON. Wood Dragon (1904).
67. To all the BKA' TSHAB. Wood Dragon (1904).
68. To the same as 66. Wood Dragon (1904).
69. To GTSANG MDA' PHUN KHANG GUNG. Wood Dragon (1904).
70. to TSHOGS 'DU. Wood Dragon (1904). From ZHABS BRTAN DGON.
71-72. [42r] To DGA' KHRI, etc. Wood Dragon (1904). On agreement with the British (worried about boundary agreements).
73. To SPYI TSHOGS ('society'). Water Dragon (1904/5). From Urga.
74. To same as 67.
75. To LCANG SKYA. Wood Snake (1905).
76. [45r] To SKU 'BUM. Wood Snake (1905).
77. To CHE SHOS SPRUL SKU. Wood Snake (1905).
78. To GDAN ZHU. Wood Snake (1905).
79. To SKU BCAR GCEN PO GUNG DON GRUB RDO RJE. Wood Snake (1905). Note reference on p. 48r.4 to 'communists'.
80. To U SHIN RTA WANG PHYAG RDOR TSHE RING. Wood Snake (1905). From Urga.
81. [49r] To CHING WANG BSOD NAMS RAB BRTAN. Wood Snake (1905). From Urga.
82. To A PA KA TÂ WANG. Fire Horse (1906).
83. To the BKA' BLON in general. Fire Horse (1906).
84. To GDUNG 'DZIN LAS RAB GLING PA. Fire Horse (1906).
85. To Manchu agent TUNG PHU SHAN. Fire Horse (1906). From SKU 'BUM.
86. To TSHA KAN HO THOG THU BLO BZANG TSHUL KHRIMS RGYA MTSHO. Fire Horse (1906). From SKU 'BUM.
87. [52r] To tulku of 'JAM DBYANGS BZHAD PA. Fire Sheep (1907). From SKU 'BUM.
88. To RGYAL TSHAB and BKA' BLON. Fire Sheep (1907). From SKU 'BUM.
89. To SGRUB KHANG SPRUL SKU. Fire Sheep (1907).
90. To TRE HOR monastery. Fire Sheep (1907).
91. [54r] To TRE HOR monastery. Fire Sheep (1907).
92. To 'KHRUNGS GSAR SPRUL SKU. Fire Sheep (1907).
93. To RDZOGS CHEN SPRUL SKU THUB BSTAN CHOS KYI RDO RJE. Fire Sheep (1907).
94. To RTA'U NYA 'TSHO DGON. Fire Sheep (1907).
95. To THOR RGOD THO YON. Fire Sheep (1907).
96. To PHAN BDE LEGS BSHAD GLING.
97. To MNGON DGE ER TI NI NO MI HAN SANGS RGYAS RGYA MTSHO.
98. To RA SA SPANG LUNG SPRUL SKU.
99. To same as 85. Fire Sheep (1907).
100. [57r] To DZA YAN SPRUL SKU, etc. Earth Monkey (1908).
101. To DUS 'KHOR GRWA TSHANG at SKU 'BUM. Earth Monkey (1908).
102. [59r] To TRE HOR monastery. Earth Monkey (1908).
103. To SRAS DNGOS GRUB BSTAN SKYONG and MA BKRA SHIS 'CHI MED. Earth Monkey (1908).
104. [60r] To abbot of MKHA' 'GRO CHING WANG monastery, BSTAN PA'I RGYA MTSHO. Earth Monkey (1908). From Peking (PE CING HONG SI).
105. To ZHWA DMAR. Earth Bird (1909).
106. [61v] To BSHAD SGRUB BSTAN DAR. Earth Bird (1909). From ZI LING.
107. [62r] To MKHAN PO GDAN ZUR BSTAN PA'I RGYA MTSHO. Earth Bird (1909).
108. To SGO MANG MKHAN SPRUL SKAL BZANG MKHAS GRUB RGYA MTSHO. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
109. To MDZOD PA of BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
110. [63r] To monks of BKRA SHIS 'KHYIL. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
111. To BLON CHEN in general. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
112. [64r] To BYAMS PA CHOS DBYINGS. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
113. [64v] To SER RTSE SGRUB KHANG SPRUL SKU. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
114. [65v] To YAB GSHIS GLANG MDUN PA. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
115. [66r] To PHAN BDE LEGS BSHAD GLING. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
116. [67v] To DUS 'KHOR GRWA TSHANG. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
117. To RNAM GRWA SLOB DPON BYAMS PA DGE 'DUN (RNAM RGYAL GRWA TSHANG). Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
118. To MGAR THAR MKHAN PO. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
119. [68v] To same. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
120. To same. Earth Bird (1909). From SKU 'BUM.
121. [69r] To CHAB MDO ZHI LCAGS SPRUL SKU RIN PO CHE THUN MONG. Earth Bird (1909). From NOR GLING SKAL BZANG PHO BRANG (NOR BU GLING KA).
122. [70v] To BKRAS LHUN YONGS ZUR LHO PA SPRUL SKU. Iron Dog (1910). From RDO GLING (Darjeeling).
123. To RTA DBANG RNAM RGYAL LHA RTSE DGON. Iron Dog (1910). From RDO RJE GLING (Darjeeling).
124. [71v] To SA SKYA BDAG CHEN. Iron Dog (1910).
125. [72r] To TSHA KAN NO MI HAN GYI SPRUL SKU and SKU MCHED SPRUL SKU.
126. [72v] To LA MO SPRUL SKU, SKU MCHED SPRUL SKU, and PHYAG MDZOD TSHA RGYAL.
127. [73v] To LCANG SKYA HO THOG THU. Earth Sheep (1919).
128. [74r] To GOR.S HA RGYAL PO (Nepalese King). Iron Monkey (1920). From NOR GLING SKAL BZANG PHO BRANG.
129. [74v] To same. Iron Monkey (1920).
130. To same. Iron Monkey (1920).
131. [75r] To RGYA GAR RGYAL TSHAB LO .T A IR. Earth Dragon (1928). To the Viceroy of India, with thanks for withdrawing the gift of a Rolls Royce.
132. To same as 128-130. Earth Dragon (1928).
133. To 'BRAS SPYI BLON CHEN LE BA KRE NAN / KAR NEL / RJE / EL AR / WI LAR SA HEB /. Iron Horse (1930).
134. [76r] To RGYAL RTSE DBYIN GZHUNG TSHONG SPYI KAB TAN I SGRAB LU PHE LE CAR SA HEB (to the British agent at Gyantse). Iron Horse (1930). Captain Idrablu (E.W.) Fletcher?
135. To Gandhi (on Ahimsa, of course). Iron Sheep (1931).
136. [76v] To Suydam Cutting. Iron Sheep (1931). Informing him that the Dachshund, Dalmation and gold watch arrived.
137. [77r] To Suydam Cutting. Iron Sheep (1931). About sending Lhasa Apso.
138. [77v] To American Wool and S. Cutting. Iron Sheep (1931).
139. [78r] To same. Iron Sheep (1931). Rockhill mentioned. Got letter from American President and how he is going to help Tibet.
140. [78v] To same. Iron Sheep (1931). Autographed picture of President Hoover.
141. [79r] 'BRUG NANG GZIM BSOD NAMS STOBS RGYAL and MGRON ZUR RDO RJE RAB BRTAN. Water Monkey (1932).
142. [79v] To 'BRUG MGRON ZUR RDO RJE RAB BRTAN. Water Monkey (1932).
143. [80r] To SMON LAM BLA MA BLO BZANG RGYAL MTSHAN 'JIGS MED DBANG PHYUG. Water Monkey (1932).
144. To THOR RGOD SENG CHEN HO THOG THU THUB BSTAN TSHE RING CHOS 'PHEL. Water Monkey (1932). Reference to patron-priest relationship of China and Tibet. Reference to Bolsheviks.
145. [81v] To Kermit Roosevelt. Water Monkey (1932).
146. [82r] To Suydam Cutting. Water Monkey (1932).
147. [82v] To Mister AR / I'I / I SI KO BÂ LA. Water Monkey (1932). On mining?
148. DKON MCHOG RDO RJE and others at Peiping? GSANG SNGAGS GTER MDZOD. Water Hen (1933).
149. [84v] Remainder of the letters are to the Panchen Lama.