• Shedup Tenzin

In the early 19th century, Tibet was known as the forbidden land to the foreign travelers and remained terra incognita to the outside world due to which her unique culture remain intact within its own territory. In fact to the Indian Buddhologists, Tibet is quite well known as Bhota desh where Buddha's teaching especially Sanskrit Mahāyāna tradition was disseminated since the early 7th century AD. It is well known fact that Tibet preserves the lost Indian cultural heritage especially that of Nalanda tradition till today. Many of the lost Sanskrit palm-leaf Buddhist texts that were lost forever in India are preserved in several monasteries in Tibet. The history witnessed the discontinuation of Sanskrit-Tibetan translation programme in 13th century AD downwards. As a result of these 600 years of historical Indo-Tibetan translation project, about 5000 Sanskrit texts mainly concerned with the Tantra, Sutra, Philosophical Commentaries, Logic, Drama, Poetry, Lexicography, Grammar, Ayurveda, Avadāna, Jātaka etc. were translated into Tibetan. The Tibetan scholars have categorized this literary genre into Kangyur and Tangyur which is here refer to Canonical texts. The Non-Canonical texts here refer to the writings of Tibetan native scholars. Out of these 5000 Sanskrit works incorporated in Tibetan canonical texts, the 13 works are attributed to Aśvaghoṣa.

Mahāyāna, Tantra, Sutra, Canonical texts, Non-Canonical texts, Tibetologist,Lexicography

"Works of Aśvaghoṣa as Incorporated in Tibetan Canonical and Non-Canonical Texts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.695-701, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906N05.pdf

"Works of Aśvaghoṣa as Incorporated in Tibetan Canonical and Non-Canonical Texts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp695-701, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906N05.pdf