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A history of Gnyan-thog village in Tongren County (Tib. Reb-gong), Huangnan Prefecture, Qinghai Province, and its Dge-lugs-pa monastery Bkra-shis-dar-rgyas-gling and teaching lineage; also includes accounts of the village's unique thangka tradition (p. 13-119), its local protector-deity temple (mgon khaṅ) (p. 371-378), and the grwa tshang for lay Rning-ma-pa tantric practitioners (p. 379-396).