Lakar Family Publications

The Lakar house today. Villagers still circumambulate the remains of the house and the carved mani-stone pile nearby. photo courtesy of Matthew Pistono

The Hor Lakar Tsang were the publishers of several volumes in the possession of the University of Oslo library. These texts were donated by Theo Sörensen, a missionary, whose travels in Eastern Tibet are recounted in A Norwegian Traveller in Tibet by Per Kvaerne.

The Texts

• Mipham Rinpoche, thub chog byin rlabs gter mdzod
• Mipham Rinpoche, thub chog byin rlabs gter mdzod kyi rgyab chos padma dkar po
• Mipham Rinpoche, bka’ brgyad rnam bshad
• Prajñaparamita in 100,000 verses (shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag brgya pa)
• 8000 verse Prajñaparamita ('phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa)
• The Autobiography of Do Khyentse (rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i yang srid sngags 'chang 'ja' lus rdo rje'i rnam thar mkha' 'gro'i zhal lung)
• byang chub sems dpa'i skyes pa rabs kyi phreng ba gzhan phan 'dod rgu'i dpal ster
• mdo mang (bka' 'dus) in three parts