Report On Kanjur Of Ta Pho

Author(s): Ernst Steinkellner
Publisher: Ernst Steinkellner

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The Ta pho 'Kanjur' is only a further example testifying to a real basis of our assumptions that there are in West Tibet the remains of a manuscript tradition which merit attention. For in all probability, these remains are to some extent of import as a new textual source, independent of the hitherto known transmissions of Tibetan canonical texts.
Postscript
A succinct version of this report was presented during the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies at Fagernes, 21-28.8.1992, together with the papers by Dr Panglung and Dr Tauscher on specific fragments in the collection (cf. fn. 38 and 39). These papers and Dr De Rossi Filibeck's investigation of the Pañcavimšatika-ms. are published in this volume.
During the Seminar, Chr. Cüppers, P. Harrison, C. Scherrer-Schaub, and Lobsang Shastri expressed their intention to cooperate in the future. With their help it will be possible to reconstitute the original manuscripts soon.
In a letter of July 17, 1992, the abbot of Ta pho, Geshe Sonam Wangdu, informed me of the fact that the bookcases for the 'Kanjur' are already under construction. The necessary financial support for this work has kindly been offered during the conference at Fagernes by Mr Tenzin N.G. Ronge of the Deutsch-Tibetische Kulturgesellschaft, Königswinter, and is gratefully acknowledged.
APPENDIX Note on a Leaf from a Xylograph Edition of the Lam rim chen mo Recently Located in Spiti
by D. JACKSON
The five or six folia from a xylograph of the Lam rim chen mo recently found in Spiti (Ta pho monastery) belong to a previously unidentified and possibly 'early' (pre-17th-century?) gTsan or mNa' ris edition. In this edition, each side contains seven lines of text, and the size of the printing blocks (excluding the characters indicating foliation, but including the thick lines at the ends) is, for example: fol. 322a: 50.3 x 6.4 cm, and fol. 322b: 50.6 x 6.1 cm. Margin notation: pa lam rim che ba sum brgya ñer gñis. Fol. 322a, begins: rab kyi yul sun 'byin pa'i phyir roll. It ends: de nas blo gzan zig gis ran. Fol. 322b, begins: bzin med pa de nid and it ends: gal te tshig ran bżin med pa ñid kyis dros po raň bãin med.
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