The Tibetan Section is one of the richest repositories of printed documents and xylographs in Tibetan language. The Section has rich collection of major editions of Kagyur and Tangyur namely .

	Burmese Tripitaka etc.
	Narthang Kagyur and Tangyur
	Peking Kagyur and Tangyur
	Lhasa Kagyur
	Tog Palace Kagyur
	Urga Kagyur
	Lithang Kagyur
	Tawang Kagyur
	The Cone Tangyur
	Ser bris Tangyur
	Bonpo Kagyur and Tangyur
	Chinese Tripitaka
	Dege Kagyur and Tangyur

Section also has a good collection of collected works. Kagyur or Buddha's teachings, consists of 108 volumes containing 115 texts. Tangyur or the treatises and commentaries of later Indian masters on Buddha's teachings (Kagyur) consist of 224 volumes containing 3387 texts. These texts of the Kagyur and the Tangyur were translated mainly from Sanskrit Buddhist texts and Pali over the several centuries by a number of Indian Pandits and the Tibetan lo tsa bas.

In addition to the above listed major editions of Kagyur & Tangyur, the holdings of the section includes xylographs and handwritten canonical documents, books, illustrated manuscripts, Arts and thangka paintings, journals and Sung bums or collected works of the teachers of four Buddhist traditions of Tibet, viz. the Nyingma, the Kagyud, the Sakya and the Gelug, as well as those belonging to the indigenous Bon tradition.

There are approximately 70,000 texts in the section. Section also manages some manuscripts, which are more than a century old and have archival value. Most of these valuable materials are reproduced in microfilms and other contemporary electronic formats so as to preserve them for future generations. A list of some important collected works (gsung bums) of four traditional Schools as well as the Bon tradition is as follows:

	Rinchen gter mdzod Chen mo 56vol.
	rgyud 'bum 45vol.
	bka' rgya ma 40vol
	klong chen mdzod bdun 7vol
	bdud 'dzoms gsung 'bum 20 vol.
	Bu Ton gsung 'bum 28vol.
	Dags po bsod rnams rin chen gyi gsung 'bum
	Pad ma dkar po'i gsung 'bum 20vol.
	gdams ngag mzdod 15vol.
	Ta ra na tha'i gsung 'bum 16vol.
	Sa sky'i bka' 'bum 17
	Sa sky'i lam 'bras 46vol.
	sgrub thabs kun bstus
	Grags chen bco brgyad
	Go ram pa bsod rnams seng ge'i gsung 'bum
	rje yab sras gsum gyi gsung 'bum
	Pan chen sku phreng gi 'gsung 'bum
	Gung thang gi gsung 'bum
	'jam dbyangs bzhad pa'i gsung 'bum
	Pan chen bsod rnams grags pa'i gsung 'bum
	Bon po'i gsum 332vol.

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