114 Kano
ca. 1100–1141 Sharaba (Tib. Sha ra ba) borrowed the Mahāsūtrasamuccaya Skt. ms.
from Retreng
1210 Śākyaśrībhadra visited Retreng (Hadano 1986: 257)
1240 The Mongolian army’s attack upon Retreng
ca. 1335 Drom Sherab mece (Tib. ’Brom Shes rab me lce) composed the
Statement about Retreng Monastery (Tib. Rwa sgreng gi bshad pa)
1361 Butön (Tib. Bu ston) borrowed the Tārāmūlakalpa Skt. ms. from Retreng
ca. 1601 Tāranātha saw the Hevajrapañjikā and Kṛṣṇayamāri Skt. mss. at Retreng
before 1900s compilation of the list of Retreng Skt. mss. later (in 1989) mentioned in
the Catalogue of Retreng Monastery (Tib. Rwa sgreng dkar chag)
begin. 1900s Dalai Lama XIII gifted Skt. mss. from Atiśa’s Collection of Retreng to
Nicolai II
1914 Ekai Kawaguchi tried to access Skt. mss. at Retreng
1934 Sāṅkṛtyāyana and Gendün chöpel (Tib. dGe ’dun chos ’phel) tried to
access Skt. mss. at Retreng
1947 Tibetan government troops attack Retreng
1962– Skt. mss. of local monasteries were brought to the Potala and
Norbulingka (cf. Steinkellner 2004: 21)
1967 destruction of Retreng
1980 restoration of Retreng
1985 Luo Zhao accessed two sets of Skt. mss. from Retreng in the Potala
1989 Lhundrup chöpel (Tib. lHun grub chos ’phel) compiled the Catalogue of
Retreng Monastery (Tib. Rwa sgreng dkar chag)
Appendix II: Materials for Studies on Ownership of Sanskrit
Manuscripts Preserved in the Norbulingka and the Potala
Collections: Tibetan Remarks Written on Manuscripts Extracted
from the Catalogues of Luo Zhao 90 and the Sandhak Catalogue 91
Luobulinka, 32; Sandhak, 30, Dhṛtakalpadvayālakṣamahātantrarāja (’Gos lHas btsas
etc.).
90 In the following register, I put locations of the catalogues by Luo Zhao, corresponding
pages in the China Tibetology Research Center catalogue by Sandhak, Sanskrit titles, pos-
sessor’s name, and Tibetan or Sanskrit texts. Sanskrit titles and Tibetan texts are exact
extractions from the catalogues by Luo Zhao with no correction of typos etc. Information
about details of the manuscripts is omitted. Systematical studies on these entries are yet
to be done.
91 Sandhak 桑徳, Krung go’i bod kyi shes rig zhib ’jug lte gnas su nyar ba’i ta la’i lo ma’i bstan
bcos (spyin shog ’dril ma’i par) kyi dkar chag mdor gsal [中国藏学研究中心收藏的