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- ↑ A. Macdonald, 'Préambule à la lecture d'un Rgya-Bod yig-chan', Journal asiatique 1963, p. 101.
- ↑ Cf. Giuseppe Tucci, Tibetan Painted Scrolls. Rome 1949, Vol. II, p. 692.