Kangyur Catalogue
Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Degé Kangyur by its 18th century editor Situ Paṇchen Chökyi Jungné (Toh 4568).
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Chapter 1: How the Wheel of Dharma was Turned, and History of the Compilation of the Teachings
དང་པོ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་བསྐོར་ཚུལ་བཀའ་བསྡུའི་བྱུང་བ་དང་བཅས་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་ཡལ་འདབ། · dang po/ chos kyi 'khor lo bskor tshul bka' bsdu'i byung ba dang bcas pa legs par bshad pa'i yal 'dab/
Summary
Toh 4568 ch. 1-5:
More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.
Title variants
- 德格版甘珠爾經文目錄：第一章 有關法輪是如何轉動，以及佛陀言教之歷史的解釋
Chapter 2: Overview of How Those Teachings Were Preserved in This World
གཉིས་པ། བསྟན་པ་དེ་ཛམྦུའི་གླིང་དུ་ཇི་ལྟར་བསྐྱངས་པའི་ཚུལ་རགས་པ་ཙམ་ཞིག་བཤད་པའི་ཡལ་འདབ། · gnyis pa/ bstan pa de dzam+bu'i gling du ji ltar bskyangs pa'i tshul rags pa tsam zhig bshad pa'i yal 'dab/
Summary
Toh 4568 ch. 1-5:
More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.
Title variants
- 德格版甘珠爾經文目錄：第二章 有關教法是如何保存於此世界的概述
The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print
གསུམ་པ་རྒྱལ་བའི་གསུང་རབ་གངས་རིའི་ཁྲོད་དུ་དེང་སང་ཇི་ཙམ་སྣང་བ་པར་དུ་བསྒྲུབས་པའི་བྱུང་བ་དངོས་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་ཡལ་འདབ། · gsum pa rgyal ba’i gsung rab gangs ri’i khrod du deng sang ji tsam snang ba par du bsgrubs pa’i byung ba dngos legs par bshad pa’i yal ’dab
Summary
This is the third chapter of the Degé Kangyur Catalog, which describes the publication history of the Degé Kangyur. Authored by the Degé Kangyur’s main editor, Situ Paṇchen Chökyi Jungné, at the conclusion of the five-year project in 1733, it is a document rich in historical detail. First it covers the history of the Degé region and the royal family of Degé. Then it offers extensive praise for the qualities of Tenpa Tsering, the king of Degé and throne holder of Lhundrup Teng Monastery, who was the project’s main sponsor. After that is an erudite history of previous collections of translated Buddhist scriptures in Tibet since the time of the earliest translations during the Tibetan imperial period, and finally it describes the editorial process and practical challenges involved in producing a xylograph Kangyur of such quality.
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- gsum pa rgyal ba’i gsung rab gangs ri’i khrod du deng sang ji tsam snang ba par du bsgrubs pa’i byung ba dngos legs par bshad pa’i yal ’dab/ sde dge’i bka’ ’gyur dkar chag
- གསུམ་པ་རྒྱལ་བའི་གསུང་རབ་གངས་རིའི་ཁྲོད་དུ་དེང་སང་ཇི་ཙམ་སྣང་བ་པར་དུ་བསྒྲུབས་པའི་བྱུང་བ་དངོས་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་ཡལ་འདབ། སྡེ་དགེའི་བཀའ་འགྱུར་དཀར་ཆག
- The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print
- Chapter 3 of the Catalog of the Degé Kangyur
- Degé Kangyur Catalog
- 德格版甘珠爾經文目錄：第三章 有關耆那（佛陀）之教法的出版歷史的解釋
Chapter 4: Main Catalogue and Index
བཞི་པ། བཞུགས་བྱང་དཀར་ཆག་དངོས་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་ཡལ་འདབ། · bzhi pa/ bzhugs byang dkar chag dngos legs par bshad pa'i yal 'dab/
Summary
Toh 4568 ch. 1-5:
More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.
Title variants
- 德格版甘珠爾經文目錄：第四章 目錄與索引
Chapter 5: Purpose and Benefits of This Publication, Together with Dedication Prayers
ལྔ་པ། དེ་ལྟར་བཞེངས་པའི་དགོས་ཆེད་ཕན་ཡོན་བསྔོ་སྨོན་དང་བཅས་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་ཡལ་འདབ། · lnga pa/ de ltar bzhengs pa'i dgos ched phan yon bsngo smon dang bcas pa legs par bshad pa'i yal 'dab/
Summary
Toh 4568 ch. 1-5:
More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.
Title variants
- 德格版甘珠爾經文目錄：第五章 此出版物的目的與利益，以及迴向文