This collection contains manuscripts kept in the Aga monastery's library. Further Aginsky publications can be found in the Institute of Buddhist, Mongolian and Tibetan Studies Manuscript Collection (see EAP1034/2/1).
Custodial history: Aga monatery Chos Sde Chen po Bde Chen Lhun Grub Gling was established in 1810. By the end of the 19th century it became the biggest center of buddhist wood block printing in Russia with more than 1000 different books being put to print. The printing activity was banned in 1924, and the monastery closed in 1937. Almost all books were either destroyed or spread among several archives in Russia. The monastery was re-opened in 1946, but the book culture never recovered to its former scale. Nevertheless, since that time and till now the monastery library's stock has been constantly growing due to contributions from lay followers and lamas donating books. The record of such donations has not been kept up until recently, so the history of each individual book is mostly untrackable. Unless specified, all listed items therein are the manuscripts that survived the calamities of the last century's anti-religious campaighn in Russia, and happened to be a part of the present-day largely uncatalogued inventory of the Aga monastery's library.
This collection contains the following 5 series.
- EAP1034/1/1: ༄༅།།བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཨ་ཀོའི་དགོན་སྡེ་ཆེན་པོ་བདེ་ཆེན་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་གླིང་འདིར་བཞུགས་པའི་དཔར་གྱི་ཐོ་ཡིག་ལས་རིང་པོའི་གྲས་བཞུགས་སོ།། [2nd half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century]
- EAP1034/1/2: དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་གི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ཆེན་པོ་སྟག་པོ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་ཆུ་བཟང་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གསུང་འབུམ་ [2nd half of the 19th century]
- EAP1034/1/3: ༄༅།།ཨ་གོའི་དགོན་སྡེ་བདེ་ཆེན་ལྷུན་གླིང་ན་བཞུགས་པའི་དཔར་འབྲིང་བའི་གྲས་བཞུགས་སོ།། [2nd half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century]
- EAP1034/1/4: ༄༅།།དཔར་ཐུང་ངུ་ལ་གཉིས་ལས་ཅུང་རིང་པའི་སྐོར་བཞུགས་སོ།། [1st quarter of the 20th century]
- EAP1034/1/5: ༄༅།།དཔར་ཐུང་ངུ་ལས་ཤིན་ཏུ་སྣ་ཐུང་གི་སྐོར།། [Late 19th century-Early 20th century].
