Letter to Blo bzang mdzod pa via Kachen Rigzin
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- Name
- Sonam Rapgay (Author)
- Title
- Letter to Blo bzang mdzod pa via Kachen Rigzin
- Collection Name
- The Tharchin Collection
- Shelf Location
- Box no. 6, Folder no. 3
- Subjects
- Buddhism; Families; Kālimpong (India); Xigazê (China); Bkra-śis-lhun-po Monastery (Xigazê, China)
- Format
- correspondence
- Genre
- correspondence
- Origin Information
- Kālimpong (India)
- Date
- May 4, 1957
- Note (Name variant phonetic transcription)
- Bsod-nams-rab-rgyas
- Note (Public note (references))
- This original handwritten letter may relate to the one mentioned by Anna Sawerthal in her 2018 dissertation, "A Newspaper for Tibet: Babu Tharchin and the "Tibet Mirror" (Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long, 1925-1963) from Kalimpong", where she ref erences (on page 285) the reprinting in the Tibet Mirror newspaper a letter from "Bsod nams rab rgyas from Nanjing, "a friend never met" (ma mthong grogs po)."
- Note
- handwritten
- Note (Funding)
- Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
- Language
- Tibetan
- Library Location
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- Copyright Undetermined
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-m4fc-7a56