[Footnote 954:  The following list of Grand Lamas is taken from Grunwedel’s Mythologie, p. 206.  Their names are followed by the title rGya-mThso and in many cases the first part of the name is a title.

1. dGe-hdun-dub, 1391-1478. 2. dGe-hdun, 1479-1541. 3. bSod-nams, 1543-1586. 4.  Yon-tan, 1587-1614. 5.  Nag-dban bLo-bzan, 1617-1680. 6.  Rin-chen Thsans-dbyans, 1693-1703. 7. bLo-bzan sKal-dan, 1705-1758. 8. bLo-bzan hJam-dpal, 1759-1805. 9. bLo-bzan Lun-rtogs, 1806-1815. 10. bLo-bzan Thsul-khrims, 1817-1837. 11. bLo-bzan dGe-dmu, 1838-1855. 12. bLo-bzan Phrin-las, 1856-1874. 13.  Nag-dban bLo-bzan Thub-ldam, 1875.

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[Footnote 955:  See for an account of his doings Sanang Setsen, chap.  IX.  Huth, Geschichte, II. pp. 200 ff.  Koppen, II. pp. 134 ff.  It would appear that about 1545 northwestern Tibet was devastated by Mohammedans from Kashgar.  See Waddell, Buddhism, p. 583.]

[Footnote 956:  Also known as Yenta or Anda.  See, for some particulars about him, Parker in N. China Branch of R.A.S. 1913, pp. 92 ff.]

[Footnote 957:  Naturally the narrative is not told without miraculous embellishment, including the singular story that Altan who suffered from the gout used to put his feet every month into the ripped up body of a man or horse and bathe them in the warm blood.  Avalokita appeared to him when engaged in this inhuman cure and bade him desist and atone for his sins.]

[Footnote 958:  In Tibetan rGya-mThso.  Compare the Chinese expression hai liang (sea measure) meaning capacious or broad minded.  The Khagan received the title of lHai thsans-pa chen-po equivalent to Divyamahabrahma.]

[Footnote 959:  The correct Mongol names of this place seem to be Orgo and Kura.  The Lama’s name was bSam-pa rGya-mThso.]

[Footnote 960:  He finished his history in 1608 and lived some time longer so that bSam-pa rGya-mThso cannot have been an incarnation of him.]

[Footnote 961:  This is an accepted abbreviation of his full name Nag-dban bLo-zan rGya-mThso.  Nag-dban is an epithet meaning eloquent.]

[Footnote 962:  The name is variously written Gushi, Gushri, Gus’ri, etc., and is said to stand for Gurusri.  The name of the tribe also varies:  Oirad and Oegeled are both found.]

[Footnote 963:  So called from the sacred hill in India on which Avalokita lives.  The origin of the name is doubtful but before the time of Hsuan Chuang it had come to be applied to a mountain in South India.]

[Footnote 964:  Some European authorities consider that Lo-zang invented this system of incarnations.  Native evidence seems to me to point the other way, but it must be admitted that if he was the first to claim for himself this dignity it would be natural for him to claim it for his predecessors also and cause ecclesiastical history to be written accordingly.]

[Footnote 965:  sDe-srid.]