ABSTRACT
THE early history of Tibet or Bod-yul can only be said to commence with the introduction of Buddhism, or perhaps rather of Chinese influence, into that country, and it appears highly probable that all the events chronicled as anterior to that epoch must be considered in great part as legendary. It is, moreover, worthy of remark that these legends seem to be a rather clumsy adaptation of the Chinese ones relative to their first sovereigns, which are recorded in the Bamboo books.
