Our thanks to Katia Buffetrille, who sent us this remarkable sign of Padampa’s presence way up in Amdo to the south of the Blue Lake known by various names, among them Kokonoor.
The full Stone inscription rock, written in widely separated syllables around two (or three?) sides of the boulder may be roughly phoneticized, romanized and translated as:
“Gyagar Padampai Gom Tri”
rgya gar pha dam pa'i sgom khri/
རྒྱ་གར་ཕ་དམ་པའི་སྒོམ་ཁྲི།
[This is a] Meditation Throne of India Padampa.
According to Katia, if I understood her directions correctly, they were walking around Gnyan-po G.yu-rtse, near Bdud-mtsho (or Sdug-mtsho) in the region of the lower Blue Lake (Mtsho Sngon) in 2011 when they encountered this remarkable stone.
