Ten demystified folios from Ablai-kit
Résumé
The authors discuss ten folios from Ablai-kit that contain texts typically localized in the Tengyur. A closer analysis, however, reveals that this was not the case with these folios, dismantling the initial hypothesis that this part of the Tibetan Buddhist canon might have been kept along with the Kangyur in the Oirat monastery. Nevertheless, the analysis does add further support to the argument that Ablai-kit possessed a unique version of the Kangyur that has no parallels with any other known versions. The appendix to the article contain the full list of 250 folios of the Ablai-kit Kangyur so far identified in twelve Russian and Western European collections.