Comments on: Dharma from the sky II: Indian or Chinese dharma? http://earlytibet.com/2007/10/30/dharma-from-the-sky-ii-indian-or-chinese-dharma/ Notes, thoughts and fragments of research on the history of Tibet Sun, 06 May 2012 02:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: earlytibet http://earlytibet.com/2007/10/30/dharma-from-the-sky-ii-indian-or-chinese-dharma/#comment-113 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:29:33 +0000 http://earlytibet.com/2007/10/30/dharma-from-the-sky-ii-indian-or-chinese-dharma/#comment-113 A possibility! I was just having a discussion yesterday about Stongde in Ladakh, the name of which probably comes from the Imperial period name for an administrative district: stong sde.

I suspect the correspondence between the names of the prayer and lake is a coincidence, but it could be that the prayer originated from the Ladakh region, rather than a Sino-Tibetan one. On the other hand, considering that this prayer was once much better known than it is today, we could even consider the possibility that the lake took its name from the prayer….

]]> By: Dab http://earlytibet.com/2007/10/30/dharma-from-the-sky-ii-indian-or-chinese-dharma/#comment-110 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:56:20 +0000 http://earlytibet.com/2007/10/30/dharma-from-the-sky-ii-indian-or-chinese-dharma/#comment-110 Dear Early,

Might I venture to suggest that the mystery could have to do with that equally mysterious lake Pangkong, located at lat. 33, long. 78 degrees, practically on the Tibetan border with Ladakh. Nobody seems to know how to spell it out the same way twice (at this moment am thinking the most likely is Spang-gong, ‘Upper Meadow’). Or is the similarity in names just a weird coincidence?

Yours,
Dab

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