Rare Tibetan Texts 01: The Drepung Catalog and Related Publications
The 2004 release of the two volume Drepung Catalog was without a doubt a monumental publication event in the recent history of Tibetan studies. The twenty thousand plus titles of rare texts that were...
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This post is by Maho IUCHI. The Drepung Catalog (2004) published by Dpal brtsegs Institute in Lhasa inventories more than twenty-eight thousand Tibetan manuscripts and woodblock prints. A large number...
View ArticleRare Tibetan Texts 03: Collected Works of the Kadam Masters
This post is by Kazuo Kano. Crucial sources that were composed during the later dissemination (phyi dar) period, from about the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, that clarify the formation of the...
View ArticleRare Tibetan Texts 04: New Sources for History and Biography
This post is by Jörg Heimbel. In 2010, Paltsek Publications published the first thirty-volume set of a collection consisting of religio-historical and biographical works, titled Bod kyi lo rgyus rnam...
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