Zorin A.V., Mitruev B.L., Sabrukova S.S., Sizova A.A. The Catalogue of Texts of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon Kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS. Vol. 2: Indexes [Каталог сочинений тибетского буддийского канона из собрания ИВР РАН. Вып. 2: Индексы]. Ed. by A.V.Zorin. Photos by A.A.Sizova. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Centre for Oriental Studies Publishers 2019. 952 p. ISBN 978-5-85803-520-6 (Вып. 2)
The collection of Tibetan block prints and manuscripts kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts,
the Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the world’s largest collections of old Tibetan
texts. Editions of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon and separate editions of some canonical texts
comprise a significant part of this collection. Their description is to be presented in the first part
of its catalogue. It will consist of four volumes. Volume 1 included the data on the complete editions
of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur) kept at the IOM RAS and was released
in 2017. Volume 2 contains extensive information on each text of the canon as well as necessary
appendices — concordance of numbers of the texts in the editions of Bka’ ’gyur kept at
the IOM RAS, indices to the titles of the texts, list of literature.