G. Orosz (comp.): A Catalogue of the Tibetan Manuscripts and Block Prints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 1.
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condition of the paper. Four kinds of paper were distinguished: Chinese, Tibetan, Russian and Indian. The paper used in North-East Tibetan (Sku-'bum and Bla-brang) block prints was classified as Chinese as well. In the case of illustrations, accompanying captions are transcribed. If no caption was available a description is given in square brackets. 2.2 Titles In the case of Tibetan titles, every endeavour was made to record each variant. As for the Sanskrit titles, two types are used. If a work with Sanskrit title is included in an edition of the Tibetan Buddhist canon (Bka'-'gyur and Bstan'gyur), it is accepted to be an authentic work written originally in Sanskrit or Prakrit. In this case the title was "reconstructed" on the basis of its Tibetan transcription and is given with diacritic transcription set in bold characters. If at the beginning of a work a Sanskrit title is given but it is not included in any edition of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, it was taken as an apocryphal, the Indian origin of which was not attested. In this case no attempt was made to reconstruct a title, but only the Tibetan transcription is given without using bold typeface. This method is also followed when the title of a work of Tibetan origin was given in Sanskrit. Eventually the title of a work can be given in languages other than Sanskrit and Tibetan. If this language was Chinese or Mongolian the same method is followed as with the Sanskrit titles, trying to distinguish the authentic and the fabricated titles. The Zhang-zhung and Sum-pa titles were taken as fictitious. 2.3 Beginning, ending, colophon For the standard opening and closing phrases of the Bka'-'gyur texts, the "Sütra" expression is used, following Taube's method 5. The author's and the printing houses' colophons are transcribed entirely in separate paragraphs. 2.4 References References to canonical texts are given according to the Dge-dge edition of the canon as numbered in the Tohoku catalogue. Should a text be not included in the Dge-dge edition, other editions of the canon are referred to. 5 M. Taube, Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke, Teil 1-4. (= Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland XI, 1-4). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1966. XIII
