Author: Sans-rgyas-bstan-dzin, Gser Dgon, (1924-1990) & MacDonald, Alexander; editors:
Title: Sharpa-Book
Description: Kathmandu, (1971). orig.boards. 27x36cm, (103) pp, Binding's paper coating bucked & in some places chipped.. Rubbed. Inked inscription on flyleaf. Good. ¶ Text entirely in Tibetan characters. Consists of 103 single-side pages containing facsimile reproduction of 197-page Tibetan manuscript. [".. In 1971, a Sherpa lama, Sangs-rgyas bstan-'dzin, and I published a volume that came out in Europe under the French title "Documents pour l'étude de la religion et de l'organisation sociale des Sherpa". This volume contained the photographic reproduction of three Tibetan manuscripts that we had composed cojointly. These are: a "rnam-thar", that is,an " autobiography" of Sangs-rgyas bstan-'dzin; a "chos-'byung", that is to say a "history of Buddhism" with particular reference to the Sherpa area; a " mes.rabs" a title which..I shall translate as "the succession of the ancestors". Before we compiled this volume, there existed no History of Sherpa Buddhism in the Tibetan language, a dialect of which is the lingu - franca of Solu-Khumbu..Although 100 bound copies of our work published at Nanterre in 1971 do contain a very short preface in French about how the volume was written, the 200 un-bound copies sent to Sherpa country do not contain any such account..." [Alexander Macdonald "The Writing of History in the Sherpa Area of Nepal" in his "Essays on Ethnology of Nepal..." Vol. II, p. 55]

Keywords: Sherpa Buddhism, Nepal, Sherpas, Ethnohistory, Ethnography, Buddhist, Tibetan Literature, Himalayan, Himalayas