The panel “Sanskrit Manuscripts and Tibet”, upon which this volume is based, took place from 3 to 4 August 2016 as part of the 2016 Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies, which was convened by the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC) in Beijing. The panel, jointly organized by Birgit Kellner, Jowita Kramer and Xuezhu Li, was conceived as the third in a series, continuing the “Panel on Sanskrit Studies” at the 2012 Seminar (organized by the late Dr. Helmut Krasser) and the panel “Sanskrit Manuscripts in China: State and Prospects” (organized by Profs. Duan Qing and Ernst Steinkellner) at the 2008 Seminar. The editors would like to thank the leadership of the CTRC and the convenors of the Seminar for making this panel possible, as well as for their continuous support of research on Sanskrit manuscripts in China over the years. We especially would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Lhagpa Phuntshogs, who retired as director of the CTRC in 2015. In addition, we thank Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek for improving the English of several contributions, Liudmila Olalde for proofreading all papers and bibliographies, and Vitus Angermeier for the layout.

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