The Peking edition of the Kangyur is held in the National Library of Mongolia.

• It is printed with red ink.
• The folio size is approximately 28 inch x 8.3 inch (71.7 cm. x 21.2 cm).
• Four volumes out of 107 volumes are missing.(002 rgyud ka, 018 rgyud tsa, 048 sher phyin mi, 066 mdo sna tshogs ngu)


Peking edition of the Kangyur


Peking Kangyur phal chen li 002A


the National Library of Mongolia

Since 2008 the digitizing of Peking edition of the Kangyur has been undertaken as a joint project by

• National Library of Mongolia(NLM),
• The Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP) and
• Yuishoji Buddhist Cultural Exchange Research Institute (YBCERI) .

This joint project was coordinated by Kawachen.

Digital version of Tempangma manuscript of the Kangyur was distributed from the Digital Preservation Society (DPS) which was established in order to preserve the Tibetan Buddhist Canons and related literature in digital form, and make these widely available.

This joint project was completed in April 2016 and distribution from DPS has ended. Thereafter, to make it available, Kawachen has undertaken the distribution of this digital Kangyur.

Included in this complete digital version are

• 103 volumes from the National Library of Mongolia
• and 4 volumes (002 rgyud ka, 018 rgyud tsa, 048 sher phyin mi, 066 mdo sna tshogs ngu) from the Harvard-Yenching Library.
• And a few mising pages from some volumes are also supplemented the from the Harvard-Yenching Library.
• And 2 volumes(038 sher phyin chi, 039 sher phyin ji) from the National Library of Ulaanbaatar has several overwritings and additional copies of these two volumes are added from the Harvard-Yenching Library are included for reference.


Peking Kangyur digital data viewed on Adobe Reader

Peking edition of the Kangyur sample digital (PDF format)(approx. 4.85MB)
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Digital data of the Peking edition of the Kangyur
Data Specification	PDF format(Acrobat 7.0 or later version) (approx. size of 1 volume: 120MB - 300MB)(color) Approximate size of the page 27 inch x 7.5 inch (68.58 cm x 19.05 cm). Each page is bookmarked and the edges are trimmed.
Number of volumes, discs	107 volumes(103 volumes from the National Library of Mongolia + 4 volumes(002 rgyud ka, 018 rgyud tsa, 048 sher phyin mi, 066 mdo sna tshogs ngu) are from the Harvard-Yenching Library) + additional 2 volumes(038 sher phyin chi, 039 sher phyin ji)(from the Harvard-Yenching Library) DVD-R 5 discs
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