The 2004 release of the two volume Drepung Catalog was without a doubt a monumental publication event in the recent history of Tibetan studies. The twenty thousand plus titles of rare texts that were published in the catalog gave us a new vision of Tibetan literary output.

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*This is part of a series of TBRC blog posts on rare Tibetan texts. Forthcoming posts will be on the Drepung library collections, reviews of recent publications and catalogs, and notes on other rare Tibetan textual materials being documented.