on the genre lam yig, cf. Cabezón & Jackson 1996 (p. 485): "Itineraries to Sambhala by John Newman":http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/genres/genres-book.php#!book=/studies-in-genres/b29/ (accessed:2013-11-14)
for its modern equivalent, cf. "guide book (modern)":http://www.sakyaresearch.org/literary_forms/72
BDRC ID: T25