Report On Kanjur Of Ta Pho

Author(s): Ernst Steinkellner
Publisher: Ernst Steinkellner

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Though this block-print was at first provisionally identified as an old dGa' ldan print (dga' Idan par rñin), it would now appear to be another edition. The print of the Lam rim chen mo in the old dGa' ldan edition which I have inspected indeed has seven lines per side (characteristic of many 15th-century editions), but it has no margin notation, and the blocks (as well as individual characters) are somewhat smaller, being typically in the range: 46 x 5.8 to 47 x 6.0 cm in size.
The edition found in Spiti differs from the better known and more recent editions in that the latter have six lines per side, whereas it is similar to them in that all of their margins state: 'pa lam rim che ba', i.e. vol. 13 (pa) [of Tson kha pa's collected works), namely the Lam rim chen mo. In the bkra sis lhun po (?) edition (see Yoshimizu's Naritasan catalogue, p. 167, no. 1397), the work consists of pa, fols. 1-491a. In the Lhasa Żol (?) edition (Yoshimizu, p. 209, no. 1564), the work has the identical margin notation, though it consists of pa, fol. 1-523a. I have checked these, as well as the obviously different Peking edition, and found them all to contain a different text on folio 322.
Somebody more deeply involved in the study of the Lam rim chen mo should systematically describe all its known editions!
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