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The '''Shelkar Kangyur''' (Tib. ཤེལ་དཀར་བཀའ་འགྱུར་, [[Wyl.]] ''shel dkar bka<nowiki>' '</nowiki>gyur'') aka the '''London Manuscript Kangyur''' is a manuscript edition of the [[Kangyur]] offered to the British Museum by the Indian Government in 1906. The manuscript was copied in about 1712 from a manuscript kept at Shelkar Dzong in Southern Tibet, which had itself been copied from the so-called ''[[Tempangma]]'' manuscript. It is now in the British Library.

==Further Reading==
*Barnett, Lionel: ''Index der Abteilung mDo des handschriftlichen Kanjur im Britischen Museum'' (Or. 6724).
*Grinstead, E.D.: ''The manuscript Kanjur in the British Museum''. Asia Major new series XIII. 1967. p. 48-70
*Pagel, Ulrich & Gaffney, Sean: ''Location list to the texts in the microfiche eidtion of the Śel dkar (London) manusript bKa' 'gyur'' (Or.6724). London. 1996

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