Bkaʼ ʼgyur (shel mkhar bris ma)

Shey Palace Kangyur. From the ancient royal residence of the Namgyal Dynasty which reigned over Ladakh from the 15th up to the 19th century. Located on a crest towering above the Indus Valley, eastward from Leh. The heart of the whole Shey complex is formed by the main temple, the Tsuklak Khang, built in the late 1640s under King Sengge Namgyal (1616-1642). The Kanjur preserved in this temple was written during the 1730s. Work on the Kanjur could have started with the death of King Nyima Namgyal in 1729 and lasted at least until 1732 when the volume Rgyud Ma was written. Shey Kangyur had originally 105 volumes of which 100 are still extant.