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- ↑ Ancient Tibet: Research Materials from The Yeshe De Project, pp. 283-284. Dharma Publishing, Berkeley, California. ISBN 0-89800-146-3
- ↑ Richardson, Hugh. A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions (1981), pp. 44, 51. Royal Asiatic Society, London. ISBN 0-947593-00-4.
- ↑ Ancient Tibet: Research Materials from The Yeshe De Project, p. 290. Dharma Publishing, Berkeley, California. ISBN 0-89800-146-3
- ↑ Leschly, Jakob (August 2007). "Orgyen Lingpa". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-11-03.