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

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

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

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.

These books are bound in iron. They were prepared under the orders of Emperor Kublai Khan and presented to the Phagpa lama on his second visit to Beijing.

There is also preserved in this temple a conch shell with whorls turning from left to right [in Tibetan, Ya chyü dungkar ], a present from Kublai to Phagpa. It is only blown by the lamas when the request is accompanied by a present of seven ounces of silver, but to blow it, or have it blown, is held to be an act of great merit."

When searching for more information about this incredible library, sometimes posts on social media state secret manuscripts in the Sakaya monastery detail more than 10,000 years of human history. It is also claimed that this is "possibly the largest library in the world on the distant history of the planet. It was discovered behind a huge wall".

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