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Major Buddhist canon Tripitaka series

Qisha da zang jing 磧砂大藏經 / Beijing Shi : Xian zhuang shu ju, 2005
120 volumes

Yongle bei zang 永樂北藏 / Beijing : Xian zhuang shu ju, 2000
200 volumes

Pin jia da zang jing频伽大藏经 / Beijing Shi : Jiu zhou tu shu chu ban she, 1998-2000
100 volumes

Pin jia da zang jing xu bian bu 频伽大藏经续编部 / Beijing Shi : Jiu zhou tu shu chu ban she, 1998-200
100 volumes

Puhui da zang jing 普慧大藏经 / Beijing Shi : Zhongguo shu dian, 2007
42 volumes

Tripitaka is the formal term for a Buddhist canon of scriptures. All editions of the Tripitaka were translated from the Sanskrit edition. The editions vary in content since they were repeatedly revised and amended. Many different versions of Tripitaka exist throughout the Buddhist world, containing an enormous variety of texts.

Through the Song to Qing dynasty, tremendous efforts were put into compiling Tripitaka, including translations of Buddhist cannon as well as original works by Chinese Buddhist monks and scholars. These are historical treasures and indispensable research materials. For the past 20 years, enormous amounts of resources from governments as well as various Chinese and Taiwanese publishers have been put in collecting, restoring and compiling these texts. The complete collection of the Tripitaka series represents years of scholarly labor and constitutes the single largest repository of such documents in the world. As such, the value of the collection to present and future scholars is, and will remain, inestimable.

With partial funding from Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, East Asia library acquired four important editions of Tripitaka in 2007/08 to support active research on Buddhism on Stanford campus. The addition of these four major editions of Tripitaka to the collection made Stanford East Asia library one among few libraries in North America to hold a majority of the published Tripitaka series. Other Tripitaka editions in the EAL holding include:

Da zheng xin xiu da zang jing 大正新修大藏經
Wan zheng zang jing 卍正藏經
Wan xu zang jing 卍續藏經
Zhonghua da zang jing 中华大藏经
Gaoli da zang jing 高麗大藏經
Qianlong da zang jing 乾隆大藏經
Fangshan shi jing房山石经
Song Zang yi zhen 宋藏遺珍
Xizang da zang jing 西藏大藏经


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