The authors of sumbums
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9892095 |
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| Authors | Lokesh Chandra, Локеш Чандра (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 110-127 |
| Publication date | 1958-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indo-Iranian Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7246 • E-ISSN: 1572-8536 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf00158124 |
| OpenAlex | W2029366442, W4239838869 |
| Language | EN |
THE AUTHORS OF SUMBUMS L O K E S H C H A N D R A New Delhi Besides the Holy Kanjur and Tanjur, the Tibetan language has an immense literature extending to about one hundred thousand titles, ranging from one or two pages to thousands of pages. Thus the sacred Canon forms only 5 ~ of this enormous literature. After the Canon comes another very important literary genre, that of sumbums (spelt as gsuh h. bum), which are the collected works of great saints and thinkers of Tibet, China, Inner Mongolia, Mongolian. People's Republic (i.e,, Outer Mongolia), Buryat
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| Highly cited | No |
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