Борьба с тибетскими фейками

Even though a handwritten copy reproduced from an ancient manuscript
of Lodro Tsungme's (thirteenth/fourteenth century) Ratnagotravibhiiga
commentary from the library ofRiwoche Jedrung Rinpoche (Ri bo che Rje
drung Rin po che) of Perna Ko (Padma bkod) was published under the
Library of Congress program some three decades ago, the commentary has
hardly been used by Western scholarship before now. 468 The Nyingma lama
Paldan Sherab, who for a long time lived in Varanasi but now lives in New
York, thought that this commentary was what was long thought to be a
merely legendary Ratnagotravibhiiga commentary by Longchen Rabjampa.
Paldan Sherab probably removed the introductory page from one of the
Indian reproductions of Lodro Tsungme's commentarf69 and added three
prefatory pages: on the first is Paldan Sherab's newly created title Kun
mkhyen Klong chen pa'i rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa bzhugs; on the second a picture
ofLongchenpa; and on the third the same picture again together with
the ye dharma hetuprabhava formula in Lantsha script and a stanza by Terdag
Lingpa (Gter bdag gling pa) (1646-1714) in which Longchenpa is
praised under the name ofLodro Tsungme.470 Paldan Sherab added two further
pages along with a colophon ofhis own at the end, in which he explains
why this commentary is by Longchenpa.471 The only other reason Paldan
Sherab came up with this (besides the fact that Longchenpa was also called
Lodro Tsungme) is that his tradition has it that there is a general outline of
the five Maitreya works and a Ratnagotravibhaga commentary by Longchenpa.
472 The former is mentioned in the biography of Longchenpa,
which contains an extensive list of his works, but a Ratnagotravibhaga commentary
by him is not listed there.473

471 A copy of this "fabricated text" found its way into the Newark Museum. Gene
Smith informed me that the late Bdud 'joms Rin po che became aware of the exis
tence of this text while visiting the museum (the first page with the handwritten
dbu medtitle looks very authentic indeed) and took a copy of it back to Nepal.
In December 1997 I located this legendary Rgyud bla ma commentary by Klang
chen pain the Bla brang ofBdud 'jams Rin po che in Kathmandu.

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