


1922.] A Contribution to the Bibliography of Tibet. 449 
and even banknotes have already appeared in the land of 
Tsongkhapa. There was even a Lhasa Gazette is the most 
approved up-to-date style, though printed (lithographed) 
in Peking, which existed for about five years up to about 
the first year of the second Chinese revolution, and this 
SYNTHS DANSON, of which I possess an almost 
I may record stories of electric light in Lhasa in private 
houses of certain rich men and of a Russian diplomatic present 
to the Dalai Lama consisting of a gramophone praying the Aum 
Mani Padme Haim. Whether these stories are true I do not 
know, but it seems certain that a few years ago an enterprising 
Nepali took a small cinema to Lhasa in order to make his 
fortune with it. But this was a failure, for the local wits de- 
cided that such things had never been spoken about in the 
Kanjur, and so they could not be. They were not to be had 
in this way. And our Nepali did not get any public to his 
magic exhibitions. The enterprise collapsed. To return : 
have made a few references to the three earlier lists, mentioned 
above, in connection with some picturesque titles which re- 
appear in our own lists after seventy-five years. It is scarcely 
necessary to add that bibliographical publications in Tibet are 
rare ; booksellers’ catalogues also. Only one item contained 
in our list seems to be a list of publications issued by a print- 
ing establishment (No. 144). As remarked in loco the existence 
of similar lists is not known to my informants, but in 8.C.D.’s 
list (A 44) we find what seems such a print, the RIA BS IF 
Sarge sys Fy Enquiry might lead to the discovery of 
others. On the other hand there are as a rule very good 
indexes attached to the separate volumes of the larger Sung- 
bums, or callected works, and the list of Schmidt and Bohtlingk 
enumerates a great number of indexes to various editions or 
manuscripts of the Kanjur and Tanjur (Nos. 262-284). ae 
As to Tibetan bibliographical works, perhaps they soe ; 
In the list of Schmidt and Béhtlingk we find an entry, 
Nos. 446-456, entitled NTRS ane a AS’ 37 Nar 
bees en aa —, ce a i alled 
ASAN AA SHAH RF SFAIO AAT, “The book tih, © 
‘Source of Valuables’ composed by the Teacher ua 
dub.” This seems a bulky work as it consists of a tp : te 
I have not been able to collect any information a = kone 
it may be that the title of the work is afterall the mos y 
