454 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
published 21 presses are named, butas they are practically all in 
Lhasa or in places along the road from India to Lhasa they can 
only represent an infinitesimal proportion of all the presses in 
Tibet and in the countries round Tibet where Tibetan is printed. 
Of Mongolia, Kashmir, am, China, practically nothing is 
said. Bhutan is reputed to have a great number of presses, 
with excellent prints, and with an extensive literature. The 
trilingual Chinese prints. Then there are Kashmir or such 
centres as Kumbum at the other extremity of the country. We 
may expect to find a really astounding output in the whole 
realm. All of this relates more or less to lamaistic literature, 
whether religious or secular ; mostly, of course, religious. But 
it is also said that there is a voluminous printed Bon literature 
about which practically nothing is known. Anyhow what has 
been mentioned is sufficient to show that literary discovery has 
still immense scope in Tibet 
The totals of our lists are as follows. The first list names 
21 presses, and indicates 374 volumes. The number of leaves 
given in the second list comes to 4,017. The third list gives 
74 titles. In all there are 219 entries, of which some are 
duplicates, and several are already known. 
Below I give the names of the 21 presses enumerated in 
our lists, together with the few notes I have gathered about 
them. ey May serve as a preliminary reconnaissance in this 
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Indian collections of which I have knowledge, as well as to 
some collateral matters of practical utility. — : 
_ In his detailed and careful compilation on Tibet Opisanie 
Tibeta (Description of Tibet), Vol. I], Part I (Vladivostok, 
additional data, I here append what he says about Tibetan 
printing. The remarks form part of note 116 in the Appendix 


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