42 ANALYSIS OF THE DULVA, 



The first compilers were three mdividuals of his (Shakya's) principal 

 disciples. " UPALf" (in Tib. " NvE'-VAR-ZiKHOR") compiled the " Vinaya 

 Sutram" (Iih. Dul-ve-do) ; Ananda (Tib. " Kun-c?gAvo") the Sutrantah 

 (Tib. the Do class) ; And " K^shyapa" (Tib. " Hot-srung") the PrajnyA- 

 pdramitd (Tib. Sher-cJihin). These several works were imported into 

 Tibet, and translated there between the seventh and thirteenth centuries 

 of our era, but mostly in the ninth. The edition of the Kci-gyur m the 

 Asiatic Society's possession appears to have been printed with the very 

 wooden types that are mentioned as having been prepared in 1731 of the 

 last century ; and which are still in continual use, at Sndr-tliang, a large 

 building or monastery, not far from Teslii-\hun-po, (^5l'W"^ai'y, hkra- 

 skis Vmn-po.) 



The Kd-gyur collection comprises the seven following great divisions, 

 which are in fact distinct works. 



I. Dul-vd, Q5QI'^, (Sans. Vinaya) or, "Discipline," in 13 volumes. 



II. Sher-cJihin,^!:^^, (Sans. Prajnydpdramitd) or, " Transcendental 

 Wisdom," in 21 volumes. 



III. P7«a/-i?7i7<ew, (Sans. J3uddha-vata sanga) or, " Bauddha 

 Community," in 6 volumes. 



IV. D,Jcon-seks, ^^W'R^'^^, (Sans. Ratnahuta) or, " Gems heaped 

 up," in 6 volumes. 



V. Do-de, (Sans. Sutranta) " Aphorisms" or Tracts, in 30 



volumes. 



VI. Nydng-dds, ^^'(i^^, (Sans. Nirvina) " Deliverance from pain," 

 in 2 volumes. 



VII. Gyut, (Sans. Tantra) " Mystical Doctrine, Charms," in 22 

 volumes, forming altogether exactly one hundred volumes. 



The whole Kd-gyur collection is very frequently alluded to under the 

 name, De-not-sum, ^'^'^'^S^? in Sanscrit Tripitakdh, the " free vessels 

 or repositories", comprehending under this appellation — 1st. The Dulva. — 

 2ndly. The Do, with the Plial-chlien, Kon-seks, Nyangdas and the Gyut, 



