Bodleian now has online access to, and the hard drive of,
the TBRC Core Text Collection number
11,
the 2014 collection.
TBRC statement re CTC 11:
" Among these 1,000 volumes selected from the TBRC Library,
this Core Text Collection includes works across a broad range of subjects and genres.
In particular, this collection emphasizes selections from Tibetan literature on monastic curricular textbooks (
yig cha) detailing the 5 classical subjects of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist learning along with
over 150 volumes of different commentarial writings.
Major sub-themes include over 100 volumes on life writing (
rnam thar),
over 50 volumes on religious and local cultural history (
chos ‘byung and
lo rgyus),
and over 40 volumes of scholarly reference materials (
dpyad yig),
including multilingual dictionaries (
tshig mdzod) and orthographic compendiums (
dag yig).
There are numerous works about Tibetan medicine (
gso rig),
polemical discourse (
dris lan),
personal advice (
gdams ngag),
instruction texts (
khrid yig) of all kinds,
and several narrative works from the great Central Asian epic Gesar of Ling.
Larger collections include 16 different collected works (
gsung 'bum)
and 10 compilations of miscellaneous writings (
gsung thor bu), each by individual Tibetan authors,
as well as 20 composite volumes (
phyogs bsgrigs). "
