Old Tibetan Chronicle

Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Old Tibetan Chronicle is a scroll containing 536 lines. Unfortunately, the end is missing. There are Chinese Buddhist texts on the reverse side of the scroll. It was discovered along with other manuscripts written in Old Tibetan language, including the famous (Old) Tibetan Annals, found in the early 20th century in the so-called hidden library,the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, which is believed to have been sealed in the 11th century CE. They form Tibet’s earliest extant history. An enormous number of early manuscripts in a variety of languages were collected by Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot at the famous sealed-up Library Cave (no. 17) of the Mogao Grottoes and sent back to London and Paris respectively.