446 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XVII, 
with regard to what has ultimately to be accomplished. In 
connection with Tibetan studies our bibliographical knowledge 
is still in its infancy. The literary treasures which our present 
data induce us to expect as existing must be immense. Lists 
of Tibetan works published hitherto lead us to surmise that 
we are only at the very beginning of our discoveries, and 
that all the titles known to-day, and all the books collected in 
private and public libraries, represent only a small part of a 
really immense literature of which we can scarcely estimate 
the bulk, still less the full nature and contents. The two large 
Tibetan religious cyclopedias, the Kanjur and the Tanjur, are 
fairly well known, bibliographically at least, and have, especially 
of late years, been studied in detail, but these two voluminous 
compendia, we have now found, do not in any remote way 
and extra-canonical literature is now found to be much more 
extensive than even these two well-known collections added to- 
gether. Any contribution to our knowledge of this literature, 
at the present stage of Tibetan studies, cannot fail to be of a 
certain importance, if it were only to furnish starting points 
or further research. At one time, through the information 
brought back from Tibet by Sarat Chandra Das, about the 
existence in that country of old Sanskrit texts which have long 
since disappeared from sight in India, great hopes were enter- 
tained that in this Land of Snows startling discoveries might 
be made in that direction.. The discovery of such texts in 
Dalai Lama, to obtain from him a list of such texts. Schlag- 

1 Bericht iiber eine Adresse an den Dalai Lama in Lhasa (1902) zur 
Erlangung von Biicherverzeichnissen aus den dortigen buddhistischen 
Kléstern. Von Emil Schlagintweit. Abh. K. Bayer. Akademie 4 
Wiss. I.K1. XXII Bd. IIT Abt. Munich 1904, 

