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Kanjur

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Kanjur (bka.ʾgyur, ‘translated word (of the Buddha)’). The primary part of the Tibetan Buddhist canon which comprises all sūtras and tantras attributed directly to the historical Buddha Śākyamuni, to his later revelation, or (in the case of some tantras) to another transcendent Buddha. The Kanjur numbers 100 or 108 vols. according to edn., and was largely systematized by the scholar and historian Butön, in the 14th cent. CE. See also TANJUR.

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Kanjur

A Dictionary of Buddhism | 2004 | | Copyright

Kanjur (Tib., bka'-gyur). The Tibetan canon of the translated (gyur) instructions (bka') of the Buddha, it comprises around 100 volumes containing over 1,000 sūtras and tantras, mainly translated from Sanskrit and other Indic languages with a few texts from Chinese. This collection is of great value to scholars since it preserves faithful translations of many Indic texts lost in the original Sanskrit. See also Tenjur

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