rDzong dkar
The printing house of rDzong dkar or Khyung rdzong dkar po is located in the capital of the Gung thang area. Xylographs analysed so far coming from this printery range from 1514 to 1540 and mostly are bo dong pa and associated with the Mahāmudrā tradition, but the literary genre of biographies/hagiographies is also very important. The promoters of most projects associated with this printing house were bTsun pa Chos legs (1437-1521) and Chos dbang rgyal mtshan (1484-1549), who belonged to the bo dong pa school.
Below, identified xylographs produced at rDzong dkar are listed and information on dating, literary genre and religious school with which they are associated is provided:
- Nyams yig ma ṇi’i lu gu rgyud (1521, bo dong pa);
- Chos skyong ba’i rgyal po bsrong btsan rgam po’i bka’ ‘bum las stod kyi cha thog mar bla ma rgyud pa’i gsol ’debs lo rgyus sogs (1521, Maṇi bka’ ‘bum);
- sPrul sku rig ‘dzin mchog ldan mgon po’i rnam thar mgur ‘bum dang ldan spro ba bskyed byed (1527, biography with songs, rnying ma pa);
- rJe btsun ‘ba’ ra ba rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po’i rnam thar mgur ‘bum dang bcas pa (1540, biography with songs, bka’ brgyud pa);
- ’Ba’ ra pa rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po gi rnam thar kha skong (1540, biography, bka’ brgyud pa);
- sKyes mchog gi rnam mgur chen mo’i dkyus na mi gsal ba’i gsang ba’i rnamṃ thar rags sdusshig (1540, biography, bka’ brgyud pa);
- Ka kha’i gsol ’debs sogs mgur phran tshegs rnams (1540, spiritual songs, bka’ brgyud pa);
- sKyes mchog ‘ba’ ra bas mdzad pa’i sgrub pa nyams su blang ba’i lag len dgos ‘dod ‘byung ba’i gter mdzod (1540, bka’ brgyud pa);
- sKyes mchog ‘ba’ ra pas mdzad pa’i mdo sngags kyi smon lam (1540, prayer, bka’ brgyud pa).