A collection of 265 books of “spells” (གཟུངས་, gzungs, dhāraṇī) brings the Kangyur to a close. Many of these appear previously in earlier volumes of the Degé Kangyur.
Though in the THL catalog we have given the Collected Spells their own section, Situ’s catalog does not treat them as a main division of the Kangyur, but views them as an appendix to the Tantra section. He says: “These short dhāraṇīs have been separated out from those [Sūtra and Tantra sections], and [collected here] in a single place, in order to benefit living beings. Known these days as the ‘Collected Dhāraṇīs,’ they are placed just beneath the tantra section in accordance with how they occur in the order of texts in the Tshalpa Kangyur.”
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