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In Conjunction with the Asian Art Museum Special Exhibition Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment, SACHI Members and Asian Art Museum Docents are Invited to Join
A Unique and Specially Designed Program on Stanford campus.

The East Asia Library, Stanford recently acquired two monumental sets of Tibetan Buddhist canonical materials, the comparative editions of the Kanjur and Tanjur, which contain over four thousand Buddhist texts in the Tibetan language.
In this presentation, Dr. Josh Capitanio, Stanford Libraries’ subject specialist in Buddhism and Asian religions, will give an introduction to the different textual canons of Tibetan Buddhism. Participants will learn about the significant role of canonical collections in the history of Buddhism in Tibet, the different types of canons, and the various methods used to produce them.