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Kangyur

(tib.: ka gyur) Literally translated as Translated Words. It is the Tibetan version of the Tripitaka and includes also the four orders of tantra. Altogether it contains more than one hundred large volumes, each with more than six hundred pages. It is one of the two (or three, if one includes Sungbum) parts of the Tibetan buddhist canon.

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