Taktsang Paljor Sangpo


Taktsang Paljor Sangpo, alias Śrībhūtibhadra, was a Sakya monk and archivist in the 15th century. He is the author of an important Tibetan historical work of the yig tshang literature.

Archives of China and Tibet

In 1434 he completed his collection of records Archives of China and Tibet, which in terms of literary genre essentially resembles the Red Annals, but it provides more detailed accounts of historical events. A new edition appeared in the series mes po'i shul bzhag of the Paltsek Research Institute, a Chinese translation was created by the Chinese tibetologists Chen Qingying 陳慶英 and Zhou Runnian 周潤年, and appeared in the Chinese series Zangji yidian congshu under the title Han-Zang shiji 汉藏史集.
The Buddhologist David Seyfort Ruegg summarizes the content of the Rgya bod yig tshang mkhas pa dga' byed with the words:

we find listed the royal and princely lineages of India, Li yul, China, Mi nyag, Tibet, and Mongolia side by side with the lineages of the princehierarchs of the Sa skya, Bka’ brgyud, and other schools.