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<h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="THLToolboxhomegtTibetanTextsgtCatalogingaTibetanTextgtReferenceListsForCataloginggtProvenanceFigures" class="anchorpoint"></a><a href="/tools/wiki/home.html">THL Toolbox</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Tibetan%20Texts.html">Tibetan Texts</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Cataloging%20a%20Tibetan%20Text.html">Cataloging a Tibetan Text</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Reference%20Lists%20For%20Cataloging.html">Reference Lists For Cataloging</a> > Provenance Figures</h3><p class="paragraph"> </p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="ProvenanceFigures" class="anchorpoint"></a>Provenance Figures</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s)</strong>: THL Staff.</p><p class="paragraph">This is a list of the types of people involved in the creation of a text, such as author, translator, redactor, in both English and Tibetan. This list may be helpful in translating colophons among other things. The Tibetan translations were provided by Zenkar Rinpoche.</p><p class="paragraph">Audience: <span class="size3">འཁོར་</span> or <span class="size3">ཉན་​​པ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">ཉན་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Author: <span class="size3">མཛད་​​པ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">མཛད་​​མཁན་</span> or <span class="size3">​རྩོམ་​​པ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">རྩོམ་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Compiler/Redactor: <span class="size3">སྡུད་​​པ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">སྡུད་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Concealer: <span class="size3">གཏེར་​​སྦེད་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Doctrine Holder: <span class="size3">ཆོས་​​བདག་</span> <br/>Editor: <span class="size3">དཔེ་​​སྒྲིག་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Editor: <span class="size3">སྒྲིག་​​མཁན་</span> or <span class="size3">སྒྲིག་​​པ་​​པོ་</span> <br/>Printer: <span class="size3">པར་​​འདེབས་​​ཁང་</span> or <span class="size3">པར་​​འདེབས་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Proof-reader: <span class="size3">ཞུས་​​དག་​​མཁན་</span> or <span class="size3">ཞུས་​​དག་​​པ་</span> (comparing two manuscripts and deciding which is correct) <span class="size3">ཞུས་​​ཆེན་</span> = final last proofreader. <br/>Requestor: <span class="size3">ཞུ་​​བ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">ཞུ་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Revealer: <span class="size3">གཏེར་​​སྟོན་</span> <br/>Reviser: <span class="size3">འགྱུར་​​བཅོས་​​པ་</span> or <span class="size3">འགྱུར་​​བཅོས་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Scribe: <span class="size3">བྲི་​​བ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">བྲི་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Speaker: <span class="size3">གསུང་​​བ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">གསུང་​​མཁན་</span> <br/>Sponsor: <span class="size3">སྦྱིན་​​བདག་</span> <br/>Translator: <span class="size3">འགྱུར་​​པ་​​པོ་</span> or <span class="size3">ལོ་​​ཙཱ་​​བ་</span> </p><h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="ProvidedforunrestrictedusebythespanclassnobrimgsrcsakairwikitoolimagesicklearrowgifaltexternallinktitleexternallinkahrefhttpwwwthdlorgtargetrwikiexternalTibetanandHimalayanLibraryaspan" class="anchorpoint"></a><em class="italic">Provided for unrestricted use by the <span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="http://www.thdl.org" target="rwikiexternal">Tibetan and Himalayan Library</a></span></em></h3>