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Rgyal bai̕ bka ̕g̕yur rin po che [Kanjur]. Lha-sa : s.n., 1949. 100 volumes. Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University Library.

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Excerpted from Rgyal bai̕ bka ̕g̕yur rin po che record:

"The Lhasa edition of the Tibetan compendium of Buddhist canonical writings, commissioned by the XIII Dalai Lama and based on the Snar-thaṅ xylograph edition of 1730-1732; the blocks for the present Lhasa xylograph edition were carved in 1920-1927, and this set was the penultimate set printed before the blocks were destroyed during the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959. In Tibetan."

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Rough index to Yale's 1949 Lhasa Kanjur by Wesley Needham
Call Number: Tibet Mss 64, Boxes 32 and 38
A rough index is available (in multiple drafts) in Needham's papers, boxes 32 and 38. Housed in the Beinecke, please place requests online.
THE LHASA EDITION OF THE KANJUR - Wesley Needham by Yale University Library Gazette
Call Number: JSTOR
Publication Date: April 1950 (v. 24, n. 4)
"The Lhasa edition of the Kanjur," Wesley Needham, Yale University Library Gazette 24 (1950), 182. The initial description of the acquisition of the Lhasa Kanjur.
"The Significance of the Yale Kanjur" -- Wesley Needham by Yale University Library Gazette
Call Number: X325 Y12g
Publication Date: July 1952 (v. 27, no. 1)
"The Significance of the Yale Kanjur," Wesley Needham, Yale University Library Gazette 27 (1953), 48-51. This issue is currently not available at JSTOR. Paper copy housed at Yale University Library.
THE TIBETAN COLLECTION AT YALE - Wesley Needham by Yale University Library Gazette
Call Number: JSTOR
Publication Date: January 1960 (v. 34, n. 3)
"The Tibetan collection at Yale," Wesley Needham, Yale University Library Gazette 34:3 (January 1960), 127-133. A brief synopsis of the acquisitions of the Lhasa Kanjur.
"WESLEY E. NEEDHAM 1903-1992", Marjorie G. Wynne by The Yale University Library Gazette
Call Number: JSTOR
Publication Date: April 1993 (v. 67, no. 3/4)
Obituary for Wesley Needham. Includes story of the acquisitions of the Lhasa Kanjur.
The Brief catalogues to the Narthang and the Lhasa Kanjurs by Indo-Tibetan Section of the Indologisches Seminar, Universität Bonn
Call Number: Z7862.4 B75 1998 (LC)
Publication Date: 1998
A catalog of the Lhasa Kanjur, very similar to the Beinecke's Kanjur.

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