Great Sakya Library Is Home To 84,000 Scrolls Left Untouched For Hundreds Of Years

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most incredible ancient libraries one can encounter is located inside the Sakaya monastery in Tibet. The great Sakya library is home to 84,000 scrolls that have remained untouched for hundreds of years!

After being examined by the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, it is now known that these ancient scrolls contain valuable knowledge on various subjects.

Sakya Monastery Library. Credit: Richard Mortel - CC BY 2.0

According to the Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture, Das Sharat Chandra (1849 - 1917), "the great library of Sakya is on shelves along the walls of the great hall of the Lhakhang Chen-po. There are preserved here many volumes written in gold letters; the pages are six feet long by eighteen inches in breadth. In the margin of each page are illuminations, and the first four volumes have pictures of the thousand Buddhas.

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