"Kanjur" redirects here. For places in Iran, see Kanjur, Iran.
Kangyur
Young monks printing scriptures in Sera Monastery, Tibet
Tibetan name
Tibetan
བཀའ་འགྱུར
Transcriptions
Wylie
bka' 'gyur
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur. The Kangyur or Kanjur is Buddha's recorded teachings (or the 'Translation of the Word'), and the Tengyur or Tanjur is the commentaries by great masters on Buddha's teachings (or the 'Translation of Treatises').
recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur. The Kangyur or Kanjur is Buddha's recorded teachings (or the 'Translation...
recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Canon includes the Kangyur, which is the Buddha's recorded teachings, and the Tengyur, which is commentaries...
placed after the Kangyur. The Tengyur is the collected commentaries by great buddhist masters on the Buddha's teachings. The Kangyur are the Buddha's...
translating the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of the Kangyur and Tengyur, into Mongolian. This script then became the established literary...
one of the largest PP sutras, comprising three volumes of the Tibetan Kangyur (26-28). It was also one of the most important and popular PP sutras in...
Lama in 1976. The monastery holds in its reliquary 108 volumes of the Kangyur, as well as other holy books and scrolls that were moved out of Tibet after...
buildings. The library of the monastery has valuable old scriptures, mainly Kangyur and Tengyur. The full name of the monastery is Tawang Galdan Namgye Lhatse...
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, what is considered buddhavacana is collected in the Kangyur ('The Translation of the Word'). The East Asian and Tibetan Buddhist Canons...
Buddhahood. These include The Questions of the Girl Vimalaśraddhā (Tohoku Kangyur - Toh number 84), The Questions of Vimaladattā (Toh 77), The Lion's Roar...
meditation by the sea. Revati ascended the funeral pyre of her husband. In the Kangyur of Tibetan Buddhism, the goddess Rematī is often conflated with the goddess...
Buddha, publication of elegant calligraphic editions of the 108-volume Kangyur (Collection of the Words of the Buddha) and the 225-volume Tengyur (Collection...
particular, refers to the traditional Tibetan loose-leaf books such as the kangyur, tengyur, and sadhanas. Pechas sometimes have top and bottom cover plates...
Under the recommendation of Dagri Rinpoche, the whole collection of the Kangyur and Tengyur Text are now kept in TCCL. Also known as the Tibetan Buddhist...
consecrated in 2009. A library of Buddhist texts from the Tengyur and the Kangyur is stored in the dome. Bhakha Rinpoche came to the United States in the...
14th Century and has a notable library including all 108 volumes of the Kangyur. A ritual dance-mask festival is held annually.[unreliable source?] Next...
Mongolian. The most notable documents in this language are the Mongolian Kangyur and Tengyur as well as several chronicles. In 1686, the Soyombo alphabet...
Emperor (r. 1402–1424) promoted the carving of printing blocks for the Kangyur, now known as "the Yongle Kanjur", and seen as an important edition of...
Skilling 1998, p. 78, speaks of the tantra divisions of some editions of the Kangyur as including Sravakayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana texts. Buswell 2004, pp...
Vajrayana Buddhism. A large number of texts that would later appear in the Kangyur and Tengyur were known to have been composed or copied at Jagadala. It...