[N.S , XVIII, 1922.] A Contribution to the Bibl. of Tibet. 525 
so that I am now able to add a fuller account of it here. Its. 
full title is BHATT FCN RAQRAT HCA DR ROARS 
AINA TS SAT (AQIS )s Systematic descrip- 
tion of the book-blocks in the noble printing-house of the 
d t 
noble and glorious religious institution, calle e ‘‘ White 
Mass”? The name AAN HCA, nearly always literally trans- 
~~ 
lated as ‘‘Heap of Rice,” does not mean this at all to the 
Tibetan. ‘‘ Rice’? means here “ white like rice,” as we would 
sé sn 
use “ snow-white ” or owy”’ alone. The expression 
os en ° . . . . 
BAAN lit. great, in connection with names or titles often 
’ 
means noble, illustrious, “‘ his honour,” an epithet of respect. 
The marginal title is simply AOSTA AAT The booklet 
consists of seven leaves. This very important document 
preserved in the printing establishment of the Dapung 
monastery (Lhasa) with the exact number of blocks of each 
work, and an indication of the room where they are kept. 
The following gives in brief the substance of the contents : 
The preamble says that during the time of the fifth Dalai 
Lama an inventory was made of the blocks in the Dapung 
printing house. As afterwards many new blocks had been 
cut, therefore “ now ”’ the thirteenth Dalai Lama in the 15th 
aes (prabhava) cycle, in the Iron-Monkey (57th) year 
(that is in 1920, three years ago), has commanded a new list to 
be prepared. Then follows the long list of bare titles, giving 
in each case the number of the blocks for each title, stored 
away in the rooms numbered from nm (1) to x (tI). Inall 
285 titles are given, of which the blocks number 40,807, 
which represents half that number of leaves. Of the titles 
given some do not indicate single works but collections. 
Cree 
NFS EN ORIN ENR IIe Oo 
