Great Sakya Library Is Home To 84,000 Scrolls Left Untouched For Hundreds Of Years

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the most incredible ancient libraries one can encounter is located inside the Sakaya monastery in Tibet. The great Sakaya library is home to 84,000 scrolls that have remained untouched for hundreds of years!

Being examined by the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, it is now known these precious ancient scrolls contain valuable knowledge on a variety of subjects.

Sakya Monastery Library. Credit: Richard Mortel – CC BY 2.0

According to the Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture, Das Sharat Chandra (1849 – 1917) “the great library of Sakya, it is on shelves along the walls of the great hall of the Lhakhang chen-po. There are preserved here many volumes written in gold letters; the pages are six feet long by eighteen inches in breadth. In the margin of each page are illuminations, and the first four volumes have in them pictures of the thousand Buddhas.

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