idea is not
incarnation but transformation in an illusive form.]

[Footnote 954: The following list of Grand Lamas is taken from
Grunwedel's _Mythologie_, p. 206. Their names are followed by the
title rGya-mThso and in many cases the first part of the name is a
title.

1. dGe-hdun-dub, 1391-1478.
2. dGe-hdun, 1479-1541.
3. bSod-nams, 1543-1586.
4. Yon-tan, 1587-1614.
5. Nag-dban bLo-bzan, 1617-1680.
6. Rin-chen Thsans-dbyans, 1693-1703.
7. bLo-bzan sKal-dan, 1705-1758.
8. bLo-bzan hJam-dpal, 1759-1805.
9. bLo-bzan Lun-rtogs, 1806-1815.
10. bLo-bzan Thsul-khrims, 1817-1837.
11. bLo-bzan dGe-dmu, 1838-1855.
12. bLo-bzan Phrin-las, 1856-1874.
13. Nag-dban bLo-bzan Thub-ldam, 1875.
]

[Footnote 955: See for an account of his doings Sanang Setsen, chap.
IX. Huth, _Geschichte_, II. pp. 200 ff. Koppen, II. pp. 134 ff. It
would appear that about 1545 northwestern Tibet was devastated by
Mohammedans from Kashgar. See Waddell, _Buddhism_, p. 583.]

[Footnote 956: Also known as Yenta or Anda. See, for some particulars
about him, Parker in N. China Branch of _R.A.S._ 1913, pp. 92 ff.]

[Footnote 957: Naturally the narrative is not told without miraculous
embellishment, including the singular story that Altan who suffered
from the gout used to put his feet every month into the ripped up body
of a man or horse and bathe them in the warm blood. Avalokita appeared
to him when engaged in this inhuman cure and bade him desist and atone
for his sins.]

[Footnote 958: In Tibetan rGya-mThso. Compare the Chinese expression
hai liang (sea measure) meaning capacious or broad minded. The Khagan
received the title of lHai thsans-pa chen-po equivalent to
Divyamahabrahma.]

[Footnote 959: The correct Mongol names of this place seem to be Orgo
and Kura. The Lama's name was bSam-pa rGya-mThso.]

[Footnote 960: He finished his history in 1608 and lived some time
longer so that bSam-pa rGya-mThso cannot have been an incarnation of
him.]

[Footnote 961: This is an accepted abbreviation of his full name Nag-dban
bLo-zan rGya-mThso. Nag-dban is an epithet meaning eloquent.]

[Footnote 962: The name is variously written Gushi, Gushri, Gus'ri,
etc., and is said to stand for Gurusri. The name of the tribe also
varies: Oirad and Oegeled are both found.]

[Footnote 963: So called from the sacred hill in India on which
Avalokita lives. The origin of the name is doubtful but before the
ti