The deb ther 512 A few conceptual considerations 514 Grub chen Kun dga’ blo gros (prince, writer, mystic) 515 The names of nyang stod bla ma-s 518 The geography of Nyang 518 The early monastic observance (the a mdo link) 519 Lo ston rDo rje dbang phyug’s proselitism (from Nyang smad to Nyang stod) 519 Tshong btsun Shes rab seng ge and some features of bstan pa phyi dar in gTsang 522 From ral pa to a ti sha 524 The rGya of gNas rnying (the bstan pa snga dar paradigm) 524 Jo sras Phur pa ’phel (gNas rnying is donated to Yol Chos dbang) 525 A case of extraterritoriality of the mnga’ ris skor gsum culture 526 rKyang po/bu Chos blo (lo chen Rin chen bzang po’s teachings in Nyang) 526 lCe Zhar (the one-eyed disciple of Lo chen) 527 rTsis gNas gsar (from imperial patronage to rNal ’byor rgyud) 528 The vow: from a mdo to rgya gar (zhwa lu and the ma ga dha link) 529 lCe btsun Shes rab ’byung gnas (and sdom pa rGya gar ma) 529 rTsis kyi lha khang (an exemplary temple for vow observance) 530 A ti sha at Zhwa lu (consecrations and tsa tsa-s) 530 The bka’ gdams doctrine comes to nyang 532 The three Yol brothers (Jo bo rje’s teen disciples of the first hour) 532 The rGya estates in rGyang ro 533 The Yol brothers again 534 Rngog lo tsa ba’s spiritual inheritance 536 ’Bre chen po and the confluence of rngog’s and bka’ gdams teachings 536 Renewed individuality: ’bre chen po’s contemporaries 540 lHa rje Chos byang (rebirth, physician, temple founder) 540 The two rGya ’Dul ’dzin (a new phase of ’Dul ba observance is introduced) 541 ’Bre chen po’s own spiritual inheritance 542 Khyung Rin chen grags (’Bre’s long-time associate) 542 Gangs pa Se’u (the supreme teachers’ disciple) 543 La stod dKon mchog mkhar (’Bre chen po’s favoured spiritual son) 544 Nyang marginally bka’ brgyud pa 546 Thar pa gling and Rwa lung (bKa’ brgyud hermitages in Nyang) 547 gTsang pa rGyas ras (sTod ’Brug identity in twenty-one images) 548 Dran/Bran ston mTha’ bral (the first major master at Nyang Man lung) 549 The defense of nyang 551 Pho rog mDo sde mgon po (the magician) 551 Dor ta’s invasion of Nyang 552 The zhwa lu women’s marriages 555 The dpyal/rong pa religious cluster 557 Later abbots of Thar pa gling (masters in the orbit of the Shar kha family) 557 Man lung pa bSod nams dpal (the pilgrim to India and China) 559 Rong pa Shes rab seng ge (master of eclectic practice) 561 In the shadow of the sa skya/yuan alliance 562 gNye ba Grags seng (a Sa skya pa in the erstwhile Tangut borderland) 562 Chos sku ’od zer (and the temple of a flying image) 563 ’Phags ’od Yon tan rgya mtsho (Bu ston rin po che’s spiritual advisor) 565 The rise of the first dominant power (the old period ends) 566 Finale 569 Addendum 571 Textual filiation 571 Bibliography 572 Tibetan 572 Non Tibetan 575
