- cf. also "G164: hagiography (secret)":https://sakyaresearch.org/literary_forms/164
- an early, but accurate overview of the genre is given by Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984); cf. TPS [1999] (vol. 1, pp. 150-170); see also Vostrikov 1970 (pp. 180-198)
- a synopsis by Marta Sernesi addressing in detail the diverse genre covering the most important literature on Tibetan life writing is found in Brill's Encyclopaedia of Buddhism under "Biography and Hagiography in Tibet"
- on the literary meaning and translation of the genre as "liberated performances", see Fermer 2016 (p. 437 n. 61): "a nam thar does not present a path leading to Buddhahood as the common translations of "liberation story" or "story of liberation" suggest, but the performances (rnam [par] thar [pa]; hon. mdzad rnam) and activities (mdzad [pa] 'phrin [las]) that evolve from it."; cf. also ibid., p. 428
- for a study on its growth in size and criticism linked with it; see Schaeffer 2010
- the stories of the 84 siddhas as a hagiography, cf. Robinson 1996 (64ff.)
- on hagiographies' mythic aspects, cf. Robinson 1996 (p. 66)
h2. Translated Hagiographies