The first two of these Tibetan inscriptions are from stone J. pillars (rdo riṅs) at Dbu Ru Žva-ẖi Lha Khaṅ, a small chapel some fifty miles north-east of Lhasa, on the left bank of the Skyid Chu river, almost opposite the point where, on its course down from Pho Mdo, the river takes a turn to the south-west.