468 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIIT, 
collection, and a hundred various volumes as below, together 
with some further material. 
Recently increased by a very valuable collection of an- 
ti 
other hundred volumes brought from Lhasa, and some time 
before that by a copy of the RF SATHN RES, Precious 
Treasury (of the religious literature of the different Nying- 
mapa sects), in 63 vols. It is said that there are in Tibet five 
such religious miscellanies or cyclopedias of which this is one; 
each restricted to the writings of a particular sect, or rather 
group of sects. The saying is AES SH SSO; there are 
five different religious treasuries. Together they comprise 
about 200 volumes. One is devoted to Gelukpa matter, one to 
the Nyingmapa, one to the Kagyiipa, one to the Sakyapa and 
one to general knowledge. They were collected together by a 
famous Tibetan encyclopedist, mo" aN: mt "Rae who 
PAA GAs, 
lived to the ripe age of 86 and died about 30 years ago. He 
lived in Kham, Derge, where this colossal work was pub- 
lished. A second edition of the Nyingmapa part only was in 
recent times completed in Sy Ar aar'e” A short bio- 
graphy of this remarkable Tibetan polygraphist exists. 
volumes, as above, comprising the complete works of the first 
tshab-rje and Mkhas-grub-rje), further of Atisha, Brom-ston, 
Dge-hdun-grub, some 15 volumes of Nyaya texts, the works 
of four Yongdzins or Lama-teachers, and some minor works. 
4. The Adyar Library, Madras. A Kanjur and Tanjur 
and half a dozen other works. 
cated and commented upon above. 
There may be other public collections in India of which I 
am not aware. All the Kanjurs and Tanjurs mentioned above 
are Narthang prints. Some are exceedingly badly legible, and 
the multiplicity of copies in India is inno way excessive. In 
., ention must be made of the curious history of two 
Tibetan works brought to Calentta in the time of Warren 
Hastings, 


