The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism ― Piats 2000 : Tibetan Studies : Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000

The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism is one of the first publications to include scholarship on both the mainstream Tibetan canons of translated Buddhist classics, and the alternative canons of literature of the Nyingma sectarian traditions.

Helmut Eimer, Ph.D. (1974) in Indology, Tibetan and Oriental Art History, University of Bonn, is a senior researcher (emeritus) at that same university. He has published extensively on, e.g. the life of Atisha (Dipankarashrijnana), Kanjur transmission, collections of Tibetan manuscripts and blockprints. His most recent work is The Early Mustang Kanjur Catalogue (dkar chag) (Vienna, 1999). David Germano received a Ph.D. in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently an Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of a number of articles on Buddhism and Tibetan studies.