Dergé Kangyur

Dergé Kangyur (T. sde dge bka' 'gyur སྡེ་དགེ་བཀའ་འགྱུར་) is a version of the Tibetan Kangyur that was first produced in 1733 at the Sakya Monastery in Dergé through the patronage of the ruler Tenpa Tsering (1678-1738) and under the direction of Situ Panchen Chökyi Jungné (1699/1700-1774).

It contains 1,108 texts in 102 volumes, with the catalogue (karchak) of Situ Panchen added as volume 103. The cutting of the woodblocks lasted from 1729 to 1733.

The translations of the 84000 translation group follow the sections and order of texts of the Dergé Kangyur and Tengyur. This arrangement of texts also corresponds to the Tohoku Catalog.

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
• E. Haarh, 'A comparative list of the Derge and Lhasa editions of the Kanjur', in Asia Minor NS 9 (1963), pp. 179-205
• Josef Kolmaš, Iconography of the Derge Kanjur and Tanjur, Orientální ústav (Československá akademie věd). Knihovna, 2002

External Links

• Dergé Kangyur on TBRC
• 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