Paltsek Research Institute

Paltsek Research Institute for Tibetan Ancient Texts in Lhasa is a private organisation dedicated to the collection, preservation, cataloguing, and study of Tibetan manuscripts and early printed works. It has rescued and systematized archives comprising nearly ten thousand volumes and several thousand fascicles of pre-17th-century Tibetan texts. Prior to the establishment of China's first public institution for Tibetan ancient texts in 2014, the institute was one of the most significant non-governmental actors in this field. The institute has also published important critical editions, and is well-known especially because of the voluminous series mes-po'i shul-bzhag, which appeared in the China Tibetology Publishing House and received the China Government Award. It includes the Comparative edition of the Collected Works of the Five Sakya Founders and many other works. An other series for example is phyag bris gces btus earlier works of Tibetan Buddhism.