The same words Tanjur and Kanjur appear in relation to Tibet in some other web documents like
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349551196_History_of_the_Buddhist_Canon http://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/Blavatsky,%20H%20P%20-%20Cosmogenesis%20[English].pdf The Blavatsky pdf has the following paragraph(s) in which these two names are used : Turning now to the oldest Aryan literature, the Rig-Veda, the student will find, following strictly in this the data furnished by the said Orientalists themselves, that, although the Rig-Veda contains only "about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hymns," in spite of the Brahmanas and the mass of glosses and commentaries, it is not understood correctly to this day. Why is this so? Evidently because the Brahmanas, "the scholastic and oldest treatises on the primitive hymns," themselves require a key, which the Orientalists have failed to secure. What do the scholars say of Buddhist literature? Have they got it in its completeness? Assuredly not. Notwithstanding the 325 volumes of the Kanjur and the Tanjur of the Northern Buddhists, each volume we are told, "weighing from four to five pounds," nothing, in truth, is known of Lamaism. Yet, the sacred canon of the Southern Church is said to contain 29,368,000 letters in the Saddharma alankara,* or, exclusive of treatises and commentaries, "five or six times the amount of the matter contained in the Bible," the latter, in the words of Professor Max Muller, rejoicing only in 3,567,180 letters. Notwithstanding, then, these "325 volumes" (in reality there are 333, Kanjur comprising 108, and Tanjur 225 volumes), "the translators, instead of supplying us with correct versions, have interwoven them with their own commentaries, for the purpose of justifying the dogmas of their several schools."** Moreover, "according to a tradition preserved by the Buddhist schools, both of the South and of the North, the sacred Buddhist Canon comprised originally 80,000 or 84,000 tracts, but most of them were lost, so that there remained but 6,000," the professor tells his audiences. "Lost" as usual for Europeans. But who can be quite sure that they are likewise lost for Buddhists and Brahmins? On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 8:47 PM Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > > Friends > > I recently came across the following listing at > > > https://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22479990694&searchurl=n%3D100121503%26pt%3Dbook%26sortby%3D1%26kn%3Dsanskrit&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp6-_-title25 > > I have no idea what this could be, do you? > > The Tanjur and The Kanjur: A Dissertation on Sanskrit, the Language of > Antiquity, and on the corollary question, "Where was the Cradle of the > Aryan race?" > RICHARD, William L. > Verlag: La Casa Amaraca, Freeport, N.Y., 1920 > > described as follows: > > First edition. Oblong octavo. Printed wrapper: 7, [1]pp., photographic > frontispiece portrait and unpaged (approximately forty-one) gelatin silver > photographs of the Sanskrit manuscripts. Contemporary custom binding by the > Atelier Bindery in full pale brown morocco with four raised bands and black > morocco spine label with title and decorations of dragons and swastikas in > gilt, dentelles in elaborate gilt floral pattern, all edges gilt, marbled > endpapers. Top corners slightly bumped, very near fine in custom cloth > slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Brief > dissertation about the author's copies of rare Tibetan Sanskrit > manuscripts. Apparently issued as an eight page pamphlet, this copy has > been enhanced with the photographs and seems likely to have been the > author's own copy. Attractive and beautifully bound volume. *OCLC* locates > two copies of the pamphlet, but nothing with accompanying illustrations. > (Yale and NYPL). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 408916 > > it seems to me in the first place probable that the person who wrote this > does not know the difference between Tibetan and Sanskrit, but maybe that > is not true? Interesting, i think, and it makes me curious. > > Jonathan > > -- > J. Silk > Leiden University > Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS > Matthias de Vrieshof 3, Room 0.05b > 2311 BZ Leiden > The Netherlands > > website: www.OpenPhilology.eu > copies of my publications may be found at > https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- Nagaraj Paturi Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA. Director, Indic Academy BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra BoS Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Maharashtra BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru. Member, Advisory Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam, Bengaluru BoS Rashtram School of Public Leadership Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Studies in Public Leadership Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies, FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of Liberal Education, Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
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