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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Acknowledgments In the course of the long years of cataloguing many people helped my work in various ways, not all of whom can be acknowledged here. Thanks are due to Dr. Éva Apor, the former head of the Oriental Collection, for having allowed me to work on this material, as well as for her help in getting financial support for it. I cannot thank enough Dr. Kinga Dévényi, the current head of the Oriental Collection, who has not only encouraged me to continue my work, but took her time to discuss it with me. Without her help this book would hardly have been completed. I am also grateful to Dr. József Térjék, who has not only revised this book, but also took painstaking efforts in editing it. I should like to express my appreciation to my friend, the Sanskritist and Tibetist Péter-Dániel Szántó, who was always kind to share with me his creative insights and his impressive knowledge of Tantric literature. A number of senior and younger scholars in the Inner Asian Department at the Eötvös Loránd University also helped me with their friendship and support. I should like to thank Professor György Kara for his encouragement and inspiration. I have also received help from the Tibetan instmctor Karmadorje, the Indologist Dr. Gergely Hidas, the Sinologists Dr. Gábor Kósa and Mariann Varga, as well as the Mongolists Dr. Alice Sárközi, Dr. Agnes Birtalan and Olivér Kápolnás. I also wish to thank the Tibetist Béla Kelényi for his valuable remarks. I should also like to dedicate my thanks to my colleagues in the Oriental Collection for their patience, especially to Dr. Agnes Kelecsényi for her suggestions with Sanskrit titles and to Dr. Erdenesuvd Luvsandash, to whom I could always turn with my questions concerning Mongolistics. Several institutions have provided the funding that made the completion of this work possible. I should like to express my thanks to the Komatsu Chiko Foundation, the Pro Bibliotheca Foundation of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund and the National Cultural Fund. I am also greatly indebted to Gene Smith and to the Tibetan Buddhist Research Center in New York for generously allowing me access to their database.