We know of the Tibetan version of Zen or Chan mainly through the manuscripts from the ninth and tenth centuries preserved in the Central Asian cave site at Dunhuang. Herein is the first complete catalogue of these documents, now kept in the British Library (London) and the Bibliotheque nationale de France (Paris). The introduction presents the historical context of these manuscripts, describes their study in modern scholarship, provides a paleographical and codicological typology of the manuscripts, and summarizes the new discoveries in this catalogue. The main part of the catalogue provides detailed descriptions of every text in the manuscripts, with reference to corresponding Chinese Chant texts and studies in modern scholarly literature where relevant. Many manuscripts that had been separated into parts or had their page order disarranged have been restored to their original form. The catalogue is followed by a full bibliography, title index, and concordance.

The Tibetan Chan Manuscripts: A Complete Catalogue of Tibetan Chan Texts in the Dunhuang Manuscript Collection, Sam van Schaik, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Paperback (8.5" x 11"), 100 pp, $18.00

Sam van Schaik received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2000 after completing a dissertation on Dzogchen texts of the eighteenth-century Jigme Lingpa; the dissertation was published in 2004 as Approaching the Great Perfection. His tantric ritual system and its social contexts, and the development of mythical narratives of imperial Tibet. Since 1999, Dr. van Schaik has worked at the British Library in London where he is project manager for the International Dunhuang Project. From 2003 to 2008 he worked on the paleographical and codicological aspects of Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang. He has published extensively on these and other manuscripts and their collections, on matters of their reading, and on the varieties of Buddhist practices. In 2011, Yale University Press published his Tibet: A History.

CONTENTS: The Tibetan Chan Manuscripts
List of Maps & Illustrations	viii
Note from the Editor	ix
Preface	x
Introduction	13
Catalogue	27
Color Plates	81
References	85
Title Index	93
Concordance	97