zhabs drung, sprul sku; bla chen; chos rje | abbot-princes in hierocratic lines| Chinese | "religious heads, abbots and spiritual masters….are regularly invested with temporalities that are frequently considerable and sometimes truly princely" Ruegg 1998:1249 cited in Diemberger 2007, in her discussion (2) of incarnation lineages as dynasties: "the transmission of a spiritual principle rather than kinship as commonly understood relates one generation to the next"; such a "line of incarnations [is] called in Tibetan thrungrab (khrung rabs) or genealogy"; bla chen used in sde dge for ordained kings