Table of Contents Orna Almogi: Editorial Preface 7 Part One: Canonical Literature Chiko Ishida: Newly Discovered Folios of the Bodhisattvacaryavatara in the Tabo Collection 25 Laxman S. Thakur: The emergence of the Tabo Avatamsakasutra: An Analysis of Ancient Tibetan Manuscripts and Their Comprehensive Catalogue 45 Orna Almogi: How Authentic Are Titles and Colophons of Tantric Works in the Tibetan Canon? The Case of Three Works and Their Authors and Translators 87 Part Two: Philosophical and Exegetical Literature Kazuo Kano: Rngog Blo-ldan shes rab´s Topical Outline of the Ratnagotravibhaga Discovered at Khara Khoto 127 Dorji Wangchuk: Cross-Referential Clues for a Relative Chronology of Klong chen pa´s Works 195 Part Three: Tantric Literature Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer: The Dunhuang Phur pa Corpus: A Survey 247 Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer: Why Did the Phur pa Tradition Become So Prominent in Tibet? 277 Weirong Shen: A Preliminary Investigation into the Tangut Background of the Mongol Adoption of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism 315 Yael Bentor: Do „The Tantras Embody What the Practitioners Actually Do“? 351 Part Four: Biographical, Historical and Bibliographical Literature Helmut Eimer: Sources for the Vita of ´Brom ston Rgyal ba´i ´byung gnas 377 Ulrike Roesler: On the History of Histories: The Case of the Bka´ gdams pa-s 393 Michela Clemente: A Case Study of a Nang gi rnam thar: The Example of Kun spangs pa Chos kyi rin chen´s Autobiography 415 Marco Passavanti: The Bla ma brgyud pa´i rim-pa: A Thirteenth-Century Work on the Doha Lineage of Sahara 435 Jowita Kramer: The Gsan yig of A mes zhabs: Observations regarding Its Stylistic and Formal Features 489 Part Five: Belles Lettres Peter Verhagen: Notes Apropos to the Oeuvre of Si tu pan chen Chos kyi ´byung gnas (1699?-1774) (1): Belles Lettres in His Opera Minora 513 Victoria Sujata: Relationship between Inner Life and Solitary Places: The Mgur of Two Siddhas in Amdo 549