The Great Record of China and Tibet (1434)
A fifteenth-century Tibetan compendium of Chinese, Mongol and Tibetan history.
Full title The Great Record of China and Tibet (1434): compendium of Chinese, Mongol and Tibetan history including a Mongol royal chronicle and the Yuan administration of Tibet
རྒྱ་བོད་ཀྱི་ཡིག་ཚང་མཁས་པ་དགའ་བྱེད་ཆེན་མོ་འཛམ་གླིང་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་།
Taktsangpa Peljor Zangpo
Taktsangpa Peljor Zangpo compiled this history in 1434 from Yuan period Tibetan and Mongol records. It includes a Mongol royal chronicle, a list of the Mongol khans and details of the Yuan census and administration of Tibet and of the Sakya relationship with the Mongols. The card lists a 1979 Thimphu reproduction of a manuscript in two volumes, scanned at BDRC, and names the Chengdu 1985 typeset edition as the standard critical text. The atlas does not hold the text of this edition: no copy was harvested into the corpus, so nothing from it was read for this guide.
- How they knew
- Compiled from others
- Who “Tartar” means here
- Not recorded. The card names the Mongols of the Yuan period and lists Hor, a Tibetan name for Mongols, among the peoples.
- Why read it
- It gives a Tibetan account of the Mongol empire and its rule over Tibet, independent of the Chinese and Persian histories.
- Watch out
- The copy is a reproduction of a manuscript, not a critical edition, and the history was written long after the events.
What it says
No quotes from this one yet. Its text is out of reach for now, or the scan could not be read.
The fine print
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
retrospective compilation from Yuan-period Tibetan and Mongol records, with detailed accounts of the Mongol khans and the Sa skya-Yuan administration
Research notes
- Manuscript reproduction; the Chengdu 1985 typeset edition (Dung dkar) is the standard critical text.
Why it matters
Tibetan-language account of the Mongol empire and the Yuan census and administration of Tibet, including the Mongol khan list; a native source independent of Chinese and Persian histories.
Places named
Tibet; Mongolia; China; Tangut lands
Peoples named
Mongols (Yuan); Sa skya; Tangut (Mi nyag); Chinese dynasties; Hor