
1922.] A Contribution to the Bibliography of Tibet, 447 
Sanskrit texts probably stillextant in Tibet.! I wished to have 
a report about the current literature of the country to find out 
whether any such report would go beyond the information 
already in our possession. I expected that this more limited 
line of enquiry would in all probability prove more fruitful, 
I was not deceived in my expectations. Last spring a Geshe of 
my acquaintance, residing during the winter months at one of 
the places of pilgrimage in India, holy to Tibetan Buddhists, 
of his annual summer visit to Tibet. I met him and explained 
my wants, and he kindly promised to do for me what he could 
in this matter. Six months later he returned with two lists 
European conception of bibliography, but his lists did not, 
materially, come up to any ideal standard. Nevertheless they 
numbers, and so practically 
changes into a third list of titles only. Evidently verifying 
these numbers was a laborious work, and could not be com- 
pleted before my friend left Lhasa again. So he brought the 
list with the page numbers filled in as far as they had been en- 
tered at the date of his return to India. Both lists are written 
in Umed character. When I received them I went over them 
ae ‘ ing me to expect 
! I possess, nevertheless, credible information leading me : 
that, with more intimate relations with the Tibetan psec ie gions 
ing, agreeable, and important surprises may be in store 
direction. 
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