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Kangyur & Tengyur Genres: Number of Texts, Pages and Text Size

A report by Dr. D. Phillip Stanley, Naropa University

Note: The Combined Kangyur & Tangyur (CKT) consists of all texts find in the Peking, Cone, Derge, Urga, Narthang, and Lhasa Kangyurs, as well as the Peking, Cone, Derge, and Narthang Tangyurs. The CKT page data is stated in equivalent number of Peking pages.

Kangyur Genres: Number of Texts

Collection	Peking	Cone	Derge	Urga	Narthang	Lhasa	Combined
Genre
Sutra
’Dul ba	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Sher phyin	17	17	23	23	23	23	23
Paritta	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Phal chen	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
dKon brtsegs	49	49	49	49	49	49	49
mDo sde	267	263	266	268	272	273	279
Myang ’das	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Total Sutra	356	352	361	363	367	368	374
Tantra
rGyud	454	456	472	466	394	425	482
rNying rgyud	18	18	19	19	18	18	19
Dus ’khor ’grel bshad	N/A	N/A	1	1	N/A	N/A	1
gZungs ’dus	266	266	245	254	8	1	267
sMon lam	18	18	20	20	N/A	N/A	26
Total Tantra	756	758	757	751	420	444	795
Total Kangyur	1112	1110	1118	1114	787	812	1169

Kangyur Genres: Number of Pages*

* Note: The average page size and amount of text on a page varies by collection so the data is not comparable across columns, except that the data for the Combined Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur is stated in equivalent number of Peking pages, thus it can be compared with the data for the Peking Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur.* 1 page = 1 side of a 2-sided folio

Collection	Peking	Cone	Derge	Urga	Narthang	Lhasa	Combined
Genre
Sutra (Non-Standardised Pages)
’Dul ba	7510	9092	7859	7859	12163	11402	7510
Sher phyin	15168	16613	15053	15057	21339	21181	15198
Paritta	237	246	208	208	340	350	237
Phal chen	3179	3383	3087	3085	4529	4434	3179
dKon brtsegs	3957	4003	3500	3550	5520	5506	3957
mDo sde	19421	21365	18286	18629	29019	29520	20064
Myang ’das	1431	1586	1360	1360	2239	2109	1431
Total Sutra	50903	56287	49353	49747	75148	74502	51576
Tantra
rGyud	11837	12629	12199	12191	16482	17791	13064
rNying rgyud	1886	2041	1906	1906	2647	2870	1887
Dus ’khor ’grel bshad	N/A	N/A	936	936	N/A	N/A	1043
gZungs ’dus	1781	1821	1070	1070	25	17	2349
sMon lam	42	60	47	47	N/A	N/A	59
Total Tantra	15546	16550	16158	16149	19153	20678	18402
Total Kangyur	66449	72837	65511	65897	94301	95181	69978

Kangyur Genres: Average Number of Pages per Text

Collection	Peking	Cone	Derge	Urga	Narthang	Lhasa	Combined
Genre
Sutra
’Dul ba	939	1136	982	982	1520	1425	939
Sher phyin	892	977	654	655	928	921	661
Paritta	18	19	16	16	26	27	18
Phal chen	3179	3383	3087	3085	4529	4434	3179
dKon brtsegs	81	82	71	72	113	112	81
mDo sde	73	81	69	70	107	108	72
Myang ’das	1431	1586	1360	1360	2239	2109	1431
Total Sutra	143	160	137	137	205	202	138
Tantra
rGyud	26	28	26	26	42	42	27
rNying rgyud	105	113	100	100	147	159	99
Dus ’khor ’grel bshad	N/A	N/A	936	936	N/A	N/A	1043
gZungs ’dus	6.7	6.8	4.4	4.4	3.1	16.9	8.8
sMon lam	2.3	3.3	2.4	2.4	N/A	N/A	2.3
Total Tantra	21	22	21	22	46	47	23
Total Kangyur	60	66	59	59	120	117	60

Tengyur Genres: Number of Texts

Collection	Peking	Narthang	Cone	Derge	Combined
Genre
Sutra
bsTod tshogs	63	64	64	71	73
Sher phyin	40	40	38	38	41
dBu ma	257	257	158	158	264
mDo sde	40	40	40	40	40
Sems tsam	66	66	66	66	66
mNgon pa	18	18	18	18	18
’Dul ba	45	45	46	46	47
sKyes rab	8	8	8	8	8
sPring yig	42	42	45	45	45
Tshad ma	69	69	66	66	69
sGra mdo	28	28	36	36	37
gSo ba rig pa	7	7	7	7	7
bZo rig pa	17	17	15	15	21
Lugs kyi bstan bcos	12	21	18	18	24
sNa tshogs	132	131	77	122	142
Total Sutra	844	853	702	754	902
Tantra
rGyud	3136	3129	2623	2623	3191
Total Tengyur	3980	3982	3325	3377	4093
Total Kangyur & Tengyur	5092	4769	4435	4495	5262

Tengyur Genres: Number of Pages

Collection	Peking	Narthang	Cone	Derge	Combined
Genre
Sutra
bsTod tshogs	590	556	590	514	613
Sher phyin	10603	10342	9508	9118	10664
dBu ma	12640	12356	10725	10850	13506
mDo sde	6658	6444	5679	5561	6658
Sems tsam	10433	10055	8984	8894	10433
mNgon pa	7464	7246	6399	6334	7464
’Dul ba	12350	11732	10446	10227	12354
sKyes rab	2367	2238	2850	2776	2367
sPring yig	678	640	551	551	694
Tshad ma	15761	15303	13016	12785	15761
sGra mdo	1394	1247	2621	2565	2882
gSo ba rig pa	4026	3852	3583	3531	4026
bZo rig pa	278	319	191	196	307
Lugs kyi bstan bcos	128	466	339	355	653
sNa tshogs	10106	9652	3617	6564	10173
Total Sutra	95476	92448	79100	80823	98555
Tantra
rGyud	62317	59937	46933	46513	63270
Total Tengyur	157792	152384	126033	127335	161825
Total Kangyur & Tengyur	224241	246685	198869	192846	231802

Tengyur Genres: Average Number of Pages per Text

Collection	Peking	Narthang	Cone	Derge	Combined
Genre
Sutra
bsTod tshogs	9.4	9	9	7	8
Sher phyin	265	259	250	240	260
dBu ma	49	48	68	69	51
mDo sde	166	161	142	139	166
Sems tsam	158	152	136	135	158
mNgon pa	415	403	356	347	296
’Dul ba	274	261	227	222	263
sKyes rab	296	280	356	347	296
sPring yig	16	15	12	12	15
Tshad ma	228	222	197	194	228
sGra mdo	50	45	73	71	78
gSo ba rig pa	575	550	512	504	575
bZo rig pa	16.4	19	13	13	15
Lugs kyi bstan bcos	11	22	19	20	27
sNa tshogs	77	74	47	54	72
Total Sutra	113	108	113	107	109
Tantra
rGyud	20	19	18	18	20
Total Tengyur	40	38	38	38	40
Total Kangyur & Tengyur	44	52	45	43	44

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