ABSTRACT
Having started on his career as a treasure-hunter with such suc cess, Pemalingpa now took it up with enthusiasm. The greater bulk of his discoveries took place in the ten years from 1475 to 1484. These were followed by a few scattered finds in the later years.78 To give an idea of how he described this activity, here is his account for the year 1477, which seems to have been almost wholly taken up with the business of treasure-hunting: Again at that time, on the full moon day of the first spring month in the year of the Bird [1477], I took with me my maternal uncle Kunga Samdrup, Jowo Kunga Penjor and Tseten Dorje, each of us riding a horse, and I recovered the Thugs-rje chen-po mun-sel sgron-me ("Mahākarūna, the Lamp which Dispels Darkness") from the trea sure-hoard at Rimochen in Bumthang. That night after returning to Pemaling I sorted out the treasure, whereupon a lady called Chölamo died on account of the btsan spirits [who had been disturbed by the extracting of the treasure].
