Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: A volume of the proceedings from the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS) Conference 9 (2000). This collection of papers in divided into 2 main sections: "Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Present State and Future Tasks," and "Canons at the Boundaries: The Rnying ma Tantras and Shades of Gray between the Early and Late Translations."

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Present State and Future Tasks : Introductory Remarks / Helmut Eimer ; The 'Jig rten gzhag pa in the Kanjur Manuscript of the Newark Museum / Siglinde Dietz ; Appendix: Preliminary Basic Catalogue of Two Volumes from the Newark Kanjur / Siglinde Dietz ; The Transmission of the Thig-le bcu-drug and the Bka' gdams glegs bam / Franz-Karl Ehrhard ; On the Structure of the Tibetan Kanjur / Helmut Eimer ; Notes on the Mustang Tanjur / Helmut Eimer ; Appendix: The Mustang Tanjur Dkar chag in the Myu gu Manuscript / Helmut Eimer ; The Lhan kar ma as a Source for the History of Tantric Buddhism / Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt ; The Transmission of the Mongolian Kanjur: A Preliminary Report / Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz ; The Tabo Fragments and the Stemma of the Tibetan Tathāgatagarbhasūtra / Michael Zimmermann

Part 2. Canons at the Boundaries: The Rnying ma Tantras and Shades of Gray between the Early and Late Translations : Introdution / David Germano ; Gsar ma Apocrypha: the Creation of Orthodoxy, Gray Texts, and the New Revelation / Ronald M. Davidson ; The Seven Descents and the Early History of Rnying ma Transmissions / David Germano ; An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Authenticity of the Guhyagarbha Tantra / Dorji Wangchuk ; Les ma mo: mythes cosmogoniques et théogoniques dans le Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum / Anne-Marie Blondeau ; Khyung Texts in the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum / Gregory Hillis ; Gray Traces: Tracing the Tibetan Teaching Transmission of the Mngon pa kun btus (Abhidharmasamuccaya) through the Early Period of Disunity / Dan Martin ; Distinctive Features of the Rig 'dzin tshe dbang nor bu (Waddell) Edition of the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum / Cathy Cantwell.