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The Hu-lan deb-ther (Mongolian for: Red Book; Tibetian title: Deb-ther dmar-po) is a history of China from the viewpoint of a Tibetian noble named Kun-dgah rDo-rje ("Gongge Duorzhi" 公哥朵兒只 ). Beginning with the origin of Buddhism in India and some Buddhist dynasties in India, Kungah Dorje describes the Chinese dynasties from Zhou 周 to the downfall of Song 宋 in 1368. He then proceeds to China's neighboring dynasties of Western Xia 西夏 and the Mongols from their origin to the downfall of their Yuan dynasty 元. The last part of this chapter must have been written by another person - Kungah Dorje died in 1365, before the foundation of Yuan. The central part of the book is the history of Tibet from the early kings to the transmission of Buddhism and the development of the Tibetian schools. The "Red Book" (Chinese: Hongce 紅冊) is divided either into 26 or 8 parts - depending on the publication.
Kungah Dorje in 1352 retired from his office as head of the Chaliba XXX and started to compile several historical books about Tibetian history which are very important for the historiography of Tibet (Tubo 吐蕃 [some authors falsely read "Tufan"]) during the Tang period 唐.
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