In this video, Nortrang Orgyen reads from and gives oral commentaries on the first part of the historical annals written by the Fifth Dalai Lama. This section includes a description of the geography of Tibet prior to people inhabiting it, the origins of the Tibetan people as the offspring of a monkey and a rock ogress, and finally the emergence of the four main kin groups (Tib. rus chen bzhi) from which all Tibetans claim descent from. The text covered in the video follows pages 9 to 11 in the Beijing 1980 edition of Bod kyi deb ther dpyid kyi rgyal mo’i glu dbyang.