The Catalogue of Texts of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon Kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS. Vol. 2: Indexes
Abstract
The collection of Tibetan block prints and manuscripts kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, the Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the world’s largest collections of old Tibetan texts. Editions of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon and separate editions of some canonical texts comprise a significant part of this collection. Their description is to be presented in the first part of its catalogue. It will consist of four volumes. Volume 1 included the data on the complete editions of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur) kept at the IOM RAS and was released in 2017. Volume 2 contains extensive information on each text of the canon as well as necessary appendices — concordance of numbers of the texts in the editions of Bka’ ’gyur kept at the IOM RAS, indices to the titles of the texts, list of literature.