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'''Testament of Ba''' (Tib. སྦ་བཞེད་, ''ba shyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''sba bzhed'') - attributed to [[Ba Salnang]]. It is a chronicle of events surrounding the reign of [[King Trisong Detsen]], the founding of [[Samyé Monastery]] and the famous [[Samyé Debate]]. According to the [[Great Tibetan Dictionary]], it is also known as the 'Inventory of Samyé' (བསམ་ཡས་དཀར་ཆག, ''bsam yas dkar chag'').

==Translations==
*Wangdu, Pasang and Diemberger Hildegard, eds. and trans.,''dBa' bzhed: The Royal Narrative Concerning the Bringing of the Buddha's Doctrine to Tibet; translation and facsimile edition of the Tibetan text'', Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2000

==Further Reading==
===Tibetan===
*''Sba bzhed'', Mgon po rgyal mtshan (ed.), mi rigs dpe skrun khang. 1980

===English===
*Dan Martin, ''Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works'', London: Serindia, 1997, p.23
*Philip Denwood, 'Some Remarks on the Status and Dating of the Sba bzhed', in ''Tibet Journal'', vol. 15 no. 4 (Winter 1990), pp.135-148
*Matthew T. Kapstein, ''The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory'', New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

===French===
*Stein, R. A., ''Une chronique anciene de Bsam-yas: Sba bzhed'', Paris: Publications de l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1961

==External Links==
*[http://www.thdl.org/xml/showEssay.php?xml=/collections/history/summaries.xml&l=d1e300 The Sayings of Ba by Kurtis Schaeffer and Jann Ronis THDL]

[[Category:Histories]]