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Until recently it has been commonly believed that all Kanjurs can be directly
or indirectly traced back to the "Old Narthang manuscript Kanjur", compiled
some time after 1310. However, recent research has shown that this is possibly not the case, and that we must assume that there were also other lines of canonical transmission, which although conceptually indebted to the "Old Narthang manuscript Kanjur", were independent in their actual execution.1 If this is indeed the case, the distinction between Kanjur and Tanjur, one of the crucial steps in the development of Tibetan Buddhist religious literature, would have to be attributed to this early 14th cent. editorial enterprise; in the earlier catalogues of the Tibetan imperial period, the lHan kar ma and ’Pha tha ma, being catalogues of the type SKILLING 1997b calls bka’ bstan bcos, orbasically "library catalogues", this distinction had not yet been made.
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Although there is no reason to question the leading role of the "Old Narthang manuscript Kanjur" in the development of Kanjurs, it is nevertheless not necessary to consider it as having invented the distinction between Kanjur and Tanjur texts. Considering the difference in the ritual significance between these two types of text, it would, in fact, be rather surprising if this distinction had been thought of as late as the 14th century.