Il. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TIBET. 
All bibliographical literature about Tibet falls naturally 
under two main headings, the one treating of Tibetan works 
produced in Tibet, and the other of the study of Tibet by 
Westerners, be it scholars, travellers, missionaries or others. 
Under both headings important and numerous data can be 
entered. Arranging the available matter in tabular form the 
following scheme may be drawn up :— 
I. Tibet General. 
General Oriental Bibliography. 
Special Chinese Bibliography. 
. Special Buddhist Bibliography. 
Bibliographies in individual works on Tibet. 
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II. Kanjur and Tanjur. 
Western Material. 
Eastern Material. 
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III. Extra-canonical Tibetan literature. 
IV. Collections and Book-sellers. 
In this scheme the first division deals mainly with Western 
books, about Tibet, the second and third with the literature of 
Tibet, and the fourth gathers some practical information which 
here in India is often little known. It would not be necessary 
to include the first two divisions in the present paper at all, if 
experience did not teach that bibliographical knowledge, even 
amongst students, is limited in this country, and that for the 
simple reason that it is nowhere taught or studied in India, has 
no proper literary organs, and is not aided, as in Europe, by ex- 
tensive library activity and the resources of great book collec- 
tions with all the paraphernalia of indexing, cataloguing and 
reference, and above all expert guidance. Our best libraries In 
India are at most second-rate according to Furopean standards, 
and few in number at that. Many small specialist libraries, 
excellent within narrow limits, are difficult of access beyond @ 
restricted geographical area. And nowhere in India is there 
any library which can even remotely strive after the ideal of 
some degree of practical and well-balanced completeness. 
Great numbers of books on any given subject, which may be 
found in some library or other in even the smaller European 
countries, cannot be found in any accessible library in the whole 
of this gigantic continent; and the totality of India’s book- 
wealth is so chopped up in small sections that it is often more 
practical to procure a work from Europe—with all the delays 
attendant on that procedure—than to waste time in 0 

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