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TheTengyur orTanjur orBstan-’gyur (Tibetan: "Translation of Teachings") is the collected commentaries by great buddhist masters onBuddha Shakyamuni's teachings. The Tengyur is included in theTibetan Buddhist Canon, which consists of all of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings together with the commentaries on the Buddha's teachings. The Canon also includes theKangyur, which is repository of the Buddha's recorded teachings, placed before the Tengyur in the Canon.
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To the Tengyur were assigned commentaries to bothSutras andTantras, treatises andabhidharma works (bothMahayana and non-Mahayana).[1]
Together with the 108-volumeKangyur (the Collection of the Words of the Buddha), these form the basis of theTibetan Buddhist canon. "The Kangyur usually takes up a hundred or a hundred and eight volumes, the Tengyur two hundred and twenty-five, and the two together contain 4,569 works."[2][3]
As example, the content of the Beijing Tengyur:[4]
The TibetanBön religion, under the influence of Buddhism, also has its canon literature divided into two sections called the Kangyur and Tengyur but the number and contents of the collection are not yet fully known. Apparently, Bön began to take on a more literary form about the time Buddhism began to enter Tibet,[5][6] although it could have had some written records some time before that.
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