A decree giving the rules and regulations regarding the transportation, food compensation payments, and taxes to be collected for a new district officer
Title
A decree giving the rules and regulations regarding the transportation, food compensation payments, and taxes to be collected for a new district officer
Subject
Law > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.;
Customary law > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.;
Ethnological jurisprudence.;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Social life and customs.
Customary law > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.;
Ethnological jurisprudence.;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Social life and customs.
Description
Issued by the 13th Dalai Lama, this is a decree giving the rules and regulations regarding the transportation, food compensation payments, and taxes to be collected for a new district officer. Written on the 21st day of the 11th month of the Earth Dragon year (1868?) it is called a (dPyad mTsham rTsa Tshig) decree. It is addressed to the district officer of rDzon dGa’, to government tax payers, private estates and monasteries of the same area, to the representatives of the nine localities of Kyrong (sKyid grong) and to the representative of the La Phug area of bKras Khang.
Publisher
University at Buffalo. Law Library.
Date
approximately 1868
Contributor
French, Rebecca Redwood.
Rights
Relation
The golden yoke : the legal cosmology of Buddhist Tibet / Rebecca Redwood French.
Language
Tibetan
Type
Manuscript
Identifier
LIB-LAW004-Book7
Is Part Of
LIB-LAW004
Collection
Citation
“A decree giving the rules and regulations regarding the transportation, food compensation payments, and taxes to be collected for a new district officer,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed January 9, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/778.