TABLE OF CONTENTS KANJUR AND TANJUR STUDIES: PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE TASKS HELMUT EIMER (Bonn) Introductory Remarks 1 SIGLINDE DIETZ (Gottingen) The 'Jig rten gzhag pa in the Kanjur Manuscript of the Newark Museum 13 Appendix: Preliminary Basic Catalogue of Two Volumes from the Newark Kanjur 20 FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD (Lumbini) The Transmission of the Thig-le bcu-drug and the Bka' gdams glegs bam 29 HELMUT EIMER (Bonn) On the Structure of the Tibetan Kanjur 57 HELMUT EIMER (Bonn) Notes on the Mustang Tanjur 73 Appendix: The Mustang Tanjur Dkar chag in the Myu gu Manuscript 89 ADELHEID HERRMANN-PFANDT (Marburg) The than kar maasa Source for the History of Tantric Buddhism 129 KARENINA KOLLMAR-PAULENZ (Berne) The Transmission of the Mongolian Kanjur: A Preliminary Report 151 MICHAEL ZIMMERMANN (Hamburg) The Tabo Fragments and the Stemma of the Tibetan Tathdgatagarbhasutra 177 VI TABLE OF CONTENTS CANONS AT THE BOUNDARIES: THE RNYING MA TANTRAS AND SHADES OF GRAY BETWEEN THE EARLY AND LATE TRANSLATIONS DAVID GERMANO Introduction 199 RONALD M. DAVIDSON Gsar ma Apocrypha: the Creation of Orthodoxy, Gray Texts, and the New Revelation 203 DAVID GERMANO The Seven Descents and the Early History of Rnying ma Transmissions 225 DORJI WANGCHUK An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Authenticity of the Guhyagarbha Tantra 265 ANNE-MARIE BLONDEAU Les ma mo: mythes cosmogoniques et theogoniques dans le Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum 293 GREGORY HILLIS Khyung Texts in the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum 313 DAN MARTIN Gray Traces: Tracing the Tibetan Teaching Transmission of the Mngon pa kun btus (Abhidharmasamuccaya) through the Early Period of Disunity 335 CATHY CANTWELL Distinctive Features of the Rig 'dzin tshe dbang nor bu (Waddell) Edition of the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum 359.