Kangjur
Kangjur (ty: བཀའ་ འགྱུར, Wylie: bka '' gyur, ZWPY: Ganggyur, in most dialects reads candiras, Sanskrit in Tripitaka, pronounced "master of speech") - Tibetan Buddhist canon, about 100 volumes of sacred texts of Buddhism. This collection contains more than 1000 different kinds of books with the suttas of the early schools, mostly from the Sarvastivada school and the later Sanskrit Mahayana sutras as well as the commentaries of the so- siastry. The Kangyur has been in Tibet since the eighth century AD. In Tibet there are several editions of this most important collection of sacred Buddhist texts. Some were divided into 108, while others were for 104 or 111 volumes.
These teachings contain three essential groups of texts: 1) the sutta (sutra), that is, the Buddha's discourses with the disciples, presenting many philosophical and practical topics, 2) abhidharma, which deals in a great deal with the perception processes, cosmology, 3) blame, which is a detailed analysis of ethical issues, especially the rules of the monks. Because of this division, which consists of three groups, the Sanskrit origin of this canon is called tripitaka, meaning "three baskets."
Kangjur and Tengjur are the basic canon of Tibetan Buddhism.
Source: www.benchen.org.pl/bibl_glos_ko.htm
http://www.asianclassics.org/release4/kangyur.html
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