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Rh pu-ko-êrh and is reported to have been born in the 10th reigning year of the Ming Emperor Chêng T‘ung, which would be according to our era the year 1445, and is likewise the year of the founding of Tashi-lhun-po. His name appears in another place of the 聖武記 as (凱珠布格埒克巴勒藏) K‘ai-chu-pu ko-lo-k‘o-palo-tsang and this transliteration comes nearer to the name given in Waddell's supplementary list.

The second name is (珠拜旺曲索諾木綽爾濟朗布) Chu-pai-wang ch‘ü So-no-mu ch‘o-êrh-chi lang-pu. The year of his birth is unknown.

The third is called (結珠拜旺曲羅藏羅卜藏 [sic]達多王珠巴) Chieh-chu-pai-wang-ch‘ü lo-pu-tsang ta-(to)-wang-chu-pa and was born in the 18th reigning year of the Ming Emperor Hung Chih (1505).

The name of the fourth has also two transliterations. One is (班禪羅卜藏綽爾濟嘉勒參) Pan-ch‘anlo-pu-tsang ch‘o êrh-chi Chia-lo tsan and the other (羅卜藏垂吉嘉穆錯) Lo-pu-tsang ch‘ui-chi Chia-mu-tso. He was born in the 1st reigning year of the Ming Emperor Lung Ch‘ing (1567). This Lama is reported to have joined the 5th Dalai Lama in sending to the Ching Emperor Ch‘ung Tê, an envoy with a message and presents, in the 7th year of the Emperor's reign (1633). The messenger took an indirect way through Mongolia to Shingking (盛京), thence down to the capital. This is recorded to have been the first anthenticauthentic [sic] intercourse between the Tibetan Holy See and the Emperors of China.

In the 1st year of Shun Chih (1644), the two Lamas