In 1908 Sarat Chandra Das published the Pag Sam Jon Zang by Sumpa-khampo. It has been hailed by Prof. G. Tucci: “It was composed with a wise and discriminating choice of older sources. Its purpose is to be a summa of Tibetan historical traditions, in which chronicles and myths, saints’ lives and cosmogonic legends, political changes and religious doctrines (lugs gnis) meet”. The importance of the work lies in passages quoted from the works of ...