Subject of The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism are both the mainstream Tibetan canons of translated Buddhist classics (known as the Bka' 'gyur & Bstan 'gyur), and the alternative canons of literature of the Nyingma sectarian traditions (known as the Rnying ma rgyud 'bum).
The first section discusses the formation and transmission of Tibetan "canonical" texts, but also includes important works of reference, such as a Bka' gdams pa handbook and several unique catalogues. It also features a first report on Tibetan textual transmission in Mongolia.
The second section not only presents interpretative analysis of one of the most important alternative canons in Tibet, the Rnying ma rgyud 'bum, but also discusses essential issues of legitimacy, authority and lineage during the "gray" period of the tenth to twelfth centuries which laid the foundation for the formation of all ensuing Tibetan canons.
The volume thus develops fresh perspectives on the nature, plurality and contents of canons in Tibetan Buddhism.

The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism: Piats 2000 : Tibetan Studies : Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)

International Association for Tibetan Studies Seminar 2000 Leiden, ne

ne International Association for Tibetan Studies Seminar 2000 Leiden

Helmut Eimer; International Association for Tibetan Studies

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Brill's Tibetan studies library,, v. 2/10, Leiden, Boston, Köln, Netherlands, 2002

Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 2, 10, Leiden, 2002-

Brill's Tibetan studies library, vol. 2/10, Leiden, 2002

Brill Academic Publishers, [N.p.], 2022

Netherlands, Netherlands

PT, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: HELMUT EIMER (Bonn)
Introductory Remarks
SIGLINDE DIETZ (Gottingen)
The 'Jig rten gzhag pa in the Kanjur Manuscript
of the Newark Museum
Appendix: Preliminary Basic Catalogue
of Two Volumes from the Newark Kanjur
FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD (Lumbini)
The Transmission of the Thig-le bcu-drug
and the Bka' gdams glegs bam
HELMUT EIMER (Bonn)
On the Structure of the Tibetan Kanjur
HELMUT EIMER (Bonn)
Notes on the Mustang Tanjur
Appendix: The Mustang Tanjur Dkar chag
in the Myu gu Manuscript
ADELHEID HERRMANN-PFANDT (Marburg)
The Lhan kar ma as a Source
for the History of Tantric Buddhism
KARtNINA KOLLMAR-PAULENZ (Berne)
The Transmission of the Mongolian Kanjur:
A Preliminary Report
MICHAEL ZIMMERMANN (Hamburg)
The Tabo Fragments and the Stemma
of the Tibetan Tathdgatagarbhasitra
DAVID GERMANO
Introduction
RONALD M. DAVIDSON
Gsar ma Apocrypha: the Creation of Orthodoxy,
Gray Texts, and the New Revelation
DAVID GERMANO
The Seven Descents and the Early History of
Rnying ma Transmissions
DORJI WANGCHUK
An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Authenticity
of the Guhyagarbha Tantra
ANNE-MARIE BLONDEAU
Les ma mo: mythes cosmogoniques et th6ogoniques
dans le Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum
GREGORY HILLIS
Khyung Texts in the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum
DAN MARTIN
Gray Traces: Tracing the Tibetan Teaching Transmission
of the Mngon pa kun btus (Abhidharmasamuccaya)
through the Early Period of Disunity
CATHY CANTWELL
Distinctive Features of the Rig 'dzin tshe dbang nor bu
(Waddell) Edition of the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum.

Edited By Helmut Eimer And David Germano. Includes Bibliographical References.