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१५६ दिङ्नागकृतवैशेषिकमतविचारप्रसङ्गे भोटग्रन्थानां परिचयः । Congress, Washington, U. S. A. $247 fara laga Mr. Walter H. Maurer (Reference Librarian for the South Asia Section ) इति महाशयेनै कस्मिन् पत्रे तत्स्वरूपं यदावेदितं तदत्रोपन्यस्यते
The Toyo Bunko keeps the Kanjur and Tanjur of the 5 Cone edition. This edition was explained by T. Mibu...A
comparative list of the Tanjur Division in the Cone, Peking, Sde-dge and Snar-than editions was accomplished by T. Mibu. ( Taisho Daigaku Kenkyo Kiyo, No. 44. March, 1959, Tokyo,
Japan, pp. 1–69 ) Tibetan Studies in Japan by Hajime Nakamura 10 (Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies. Vol. VIII No 2, March, 1960 Tokyo, Japan) p. 54.
२ अनेनैव महानुभावनापरस्मिन् पत्रे विस्तरेगास्य यत् स्वरूपभावेदितं तदप्यत्रोपन्यस्यते
The Choni texts were purchased in 1926 for the Library of congress by Dr. Joseph F. Rock at the Choni monastery in 15 Kansu Province, China, near the Tibetan border. They were
struck off in Dr. Rock's presence from wooden blocks which he himself informed me must have been about 400-500 years old, and hence, their exact age is known. They were incised in
hard wood, probably walnut; as may be ascertained from the 20 most cursory examination of the prints, these xylographs were a
superb example of the art of Tibetan woodcarving. No other known version of the Tibetan canon approaches the clarity, the grace and legibility of the Choni edition. Shortly after the Choni texts were purchased for the Library of Congress the monastery was entirely gutted by fire and every wooden block was destroyed in the tragic conflagration. The Choni recension has never been as well known as the Derge, Narthang, and Peking editions and probably very few copies were struck off. In fact, apart from the xylograph in this library, only one other is definitely known to exist elsewhere. I refer to a set of Kanjur volumes deposited in the Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Japan, But be it noted that the Tanjur is not included in that collection. A catalog is being currently prepared of the Kanjur in the possession of the Toyo Bunko and should be available before
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