Kanjur

(Tibetan, bka'-gyur). The Tibetan canon of the translated (gyur) instructions (bka') of the Buddha, it comprises around 100 volumes containing over 1,000 sūtras and tantras, mainly translated from Sanskrit and other Indic languages with a few texts from Chinese. This collection is of great value to scholars since it preserves faithful translations of many Indic texts lost in the original Sanskrit. See also Tenjur