The descriptive Catalogue of the Mongol Tanjur

by Prof. Byambyn Rinchen is published in two

parts containing four volumes. Its basis is the

version of Tanjur which was translated during the reign of Emperor

Chíien-lung, with the assistance of older translations from the Yüan

period (1206 to 1368).

The Mongol Tanjur was printed in 225 volumes on the Imperial

command between AD 1742 and 1749. Prof. Rinchen copied the

colophons of the Tanjur in Mongolian script followed by their Roman

transcription.

The catalogue gives tome numbers, their titles, folio numbers,

names of the translators, text numbers, their folios, followed by

Sanskrit titles in Devanagari script, and Mongol, Sanskrit and Tibetan

titles of the texts in Roman. The colophons are Romanized from

Mongol. The catalogue will acquaint the world with the grand and

mighty literature of which any nation could be proud.