The Tibetan Inscription Attributed to Ye-shes-'od: a Note

Abstract

With reference to the interesting article by Laxman S. Thakur in JRAS, vol. 4, part 3 (1994) entitled “A Tibetan inscription by lHa Bla-ma Ye-shes-'od from dKor (sPu) rediscovered”, I think the inscription cannot be attributed to Ye-shes-'od but rather to one of his descendants, the bstan-po lha-sras mentioned in 1. 5 whose name has unfortunately been effaced.

“The Tibetans in the Western Himalayas and Karakoram, Seventh-Eleventh Centuries: Rock Art and Inscriptions”

“…25 Richardson suggests a date of 1076; Vitali offers no specific date; Petech opts for 1024. However, a study of the 20 Yarlung dynasty inscriptions published by Richardson reveals only two (the Lhasa Zhol Doring South (c.764 CE) and the tomb of Khri lde srong brtsan (815) whose preambles could be said to refer to previous rulers.…”