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==Divisions== | ==Divisions== | ||
*[[Vinaya]] ([[འདུལ་བ་]], ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>dul ba'') | *[[Vinaya]] ([[འདུལ་བ་]], ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>dul ba'') | ||
:{{84000|http://read.84000.co/#!Section/O4JW3334JW334|Discipline}} | |||
*[[Prajnaparamita|Prajñāpāramitā]] ([[ཤེར་ཕྱིན་]], ''sher phyin'') | *[[Prajnaparamita|Prajñāpāramitā]] ([[ཤེར་ཕྱིན་]], ''sher phyin'') | ||
:{{84000|http://read.84000.co/#!Section/O4JW3334JW363|Perfection of Wisdom (''Prajñāpāramitā'')}} | |||
*[[Avatamsaka|Buddhāvataṃsaka]] ([[ཕལ་ཆེན་]], ''phal chen'') | *[[Avatamsaka|Buddhāvataṃsaka]] ([[ཕལ་ཆེན་]], ''phal chen'') | ||
:{{84000|http://read.84000.co/#!Section/O4JW3334JW443|The Sūtra of the Ornament of the Buddhas}} | |||
*[[Ratnakuta|Ratnakūṭa]] ([[དཀོན་བརྩེགས་]], ''dkon brtsegs'') | *[[Ratnakuta|Ratnakūṭa]] ([[དཀོན་བརྩེགས་]], ''dkon brtsegs'') | ||
:{{84000|http://read.84000.co/#!Section/O4JW3334JW452|Heap of Jewels}} | |||
*[[Sutra|Sūtra]] ([[མདོ་]], ''mdo'') | *[[Sutra|Sūtra]] ([[མདོ་]], ''mdo'') | ||
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*[[Tantra]] ([[རྒྱུད་]], ''rgyud'') | *[[Tantra]] ([[རྒྱུད་]], ''rgyud'') | ||
:{{84000|http://read.84000.co/#!Section/O4JW3334JW814|Tantra collection}} | |||
:{{84000|http://read.84000.co/#!Section/O4JW3334JW1302|Old Tantras}} | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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*[http://tbrc.org/ | *{{84000|http://read.84000.co/|Translations of the Word of the Buddha at 84000.co}} | ||
*[http://tbrc.org/#!catalog/canon Tibetan Canonical Works at the TBRC] | |||
*[http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur/ Online searchable Kangyur] | *[http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur/ Online searchable Kangyur] | ||
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[[Category:Key Terms]] | [[Category:Key Terms]] | ||
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Revision as of 10:39, 17 December 2013
Kangyur (བཀའ་འགྱུར་, Wyl. bka' 'gyur) literally the 'translated words' of the Buddha. The Kangyur is a collection of the Buddha's own teachings in their Tibetan translation. The words of the Buddha are the sutras and the tantras. The parent collection of the Kangyur is the Tengyur that gathers the treatises composed by the great Indian masters of the first millennium in Tibetan translation. Though these collections aimed at exhaustiveness, most Nyingma tantras were left out by their Sarma compilers. This lead to the creation of the Nyingma Gyübum that brings together the Nyingma tantras.
The compilation of the first version of the Kangyur was finalized by the great scholar Butön Rinchen Drup (1290-1364). Several versions of the compilation existed in Tibet, among which the most notable are those from Dergé, Lhasa, Narthang, Choné, Peking, Urga, Phudrak, and Tok Palace. Before the compilation work started, most of the texts in these collections existed in several translations. The editors chose the one they considered the best. While the 'chosen one' became authoritative, most of the other ones disappeared. The different editions mostly show minor variations in the texts collected.
Divisions
- Prajñāpāramitā (ཤེར་ཕྱིན་, sher phyin)
- Buddhāvataṃsaka (ཕལ་ཆེན་, phal chen)
- Ratnakūṭa (དཀོན་བརྩེགས་, dkon brtsegs)
Further Reading
- Paul Harrison, 'A Brief History of the Tibetan bKa' 'gyur' in Cabezón and Jackson, ed., Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, Snow Lion, 1996
- Peter Skilling, Translating the Buddha's Words: Some Notes on the Kanjur Translation Project, Nonthaburi, March 11, 2009
- Peter Skilling, 'Kanjur Titles and Colophons' in Tibetan Studies, vol. 2. Oslo, 1994, pp.768-780