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- 1 2 Dargye & Sørensen: 2001 p. 3-4
- ↑ This cannot be the text of the same name written by the 9th Karmapa (1556-1603)
- ↑ Dargye & Sørensen: 2001 p. 4.
- ↑ Dargye 2001. p 65
- ↑ Dargye & Sørensen: 2001 p. 15
- ↑ Martin, Dan (August 2008). "Pajo Drukgom Zhigpo". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
