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canon. It may be looked upon as a body of divinity, 

 ethics, philosophy, grammar, logic, rhetoric, poetry, prosody, 

 medicine, and alchemy, for the information of the Lamas. 

 It probably corresponds to the Atthakathas of the Southern 

 Buddhists, the Singhalese, Burmese, and Siamese — but the 

 Tanjur is much more extensive. It consists of two 

 divisions, printed in the rudest manner in some editions, but 

 some beautiful manuscripts exist of parts of each. The 

 value differs according to the ink with which the manu- 

 script is produced ; a copy in red is 108 times more 

 precious and efficacious than one in black ; in silver, 108 

 times more availing than one in red ; in gold, 108 times 

 more effectual than in silver. 



The Kanjur is found in many editions not only issued 

 from Peking, Lhassa, Teshu Lumpo, Kunbum, and other 

 sacred cities, but also from the presses in various monas- 

 teries. 



The Tanjur is very rarely met with. It appears to 

 have been printed for the first time in 1 728-1 746. Foucaux 

 says that the collection was in existence in the beginning of 

 the seventeenth century. 



An ordinary copy of the Kanjur cost a few years ago, 

 in Peking, 150/. The edition of the Emperor, Kien-long, 

 was valued at 2,000 ounces of silver (600/.). M. Vassiliefif 

 paid for a copy of the Tanjur at Peking only 700 silver 

 roubles (100/.). The Buriat tribe obtained a copy of the 

 Kanjur for 7,000 oxen, and copies of the Kanjur and 

 Tanjur together for 12,000 silver roubles. Complete copies 

 of both these works are deposited in the Library of the 

 India Office, having been given to the late Hon. East India 

 Company by their agent, the resident in Nepaul, Mr. Brian 

 H. Hodgson, to whom the Grand Lama presented them in 

 appreciation of Mr. Hodgson's tolerant spirit and manner 

 of treating with the Tibetan Buddhists.' 



* See 'The Phcenix,' vol. i. p. 10, <яп article by the editor, the 

 Rev. J. Summers ; from which I have summarised the above par- 

 ticulars.— I\I. 



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