The Missing Texts

After 1959, the junior and senior tutors of His Holiness the Dalai Lama advised members of the Porong community in exile to collect one set of Bodong Panchen Chogley Namgyal’s scriptures from Tibet and bring it to India. The community followed this advice. However, on their journey through to Nepal, some members of the group were stopped in Kyirong by the Chinese authorities. Some luggage of the texts were confiscated and kept like rubbish in Kyirong until 1974, when it was destroyed. We still do not know exactly how much of the collection was lost, nor whether there is another set in existence that would help us to complete the collection. These texts were offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by the Porong Pelmo Choeding monastery. Tibet House, New Delhi, has the original copies and reproduced them through xylographic process in 1960’s.

At the Bodong Research and Publication Centre, we continue to make every effort to find the missing volumes both inside and outside Tibet, but to date we have had no success. We still continue to search with our research scholar, who has completed compiling a catalogue of the works of Bodong Panchen Chokley Namgyal, which is available at Tibet House, New Delhi.

We appeal to scholars to share any information about these missing volumes with us. This would be one of the greatest contributions towards the revival of the Bodong tradition.