Painting the Path to Perfection with a Book on the Walls: The Buddha’s Former Lives in Shalu’s Circumambulatory Passage

Detail of the Colophon inscription showing the use of red ink (rubrication) for the phrase “de las byung ba’i” (“By this pure virtuous action”) and the author’s name attribution “rang byung rdo rjes mdzad pa rdzogs sho” (“were composed by Rangjung Dorje”). The final Colophon inscription, ground floor circumambulatory passage, exterior east wall, north end.