Published 2025
“…Twenty-nine of the volumes are now located at the British
Library,
London, while one volume is to be found at Oxford
University's Bodleian
Library, and two illuminated title folios at the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London.1 We have very little information about the collection's history, and there does not even appear to be a clear record of its fate on leaving Tibet, so we are not certain whether it was complete in 1904 and thus whether any of the presently missing volumes might come to light elsewhere.2</p>
<p>The rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum - the "Ancient Tantra Collection" - had canonical status for the rNying ma schools, who were followers of the tantras traditionally associated with the earliest transmission of Buddhism into Tibet, during the Tibetan Imperial period (between the seventh to ninth centuries CE). …”
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