<正> Over the years, people in Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and Beijing have made concerted efforts to rescue, compile and publish or catalogue ancient Tibetan classics. Incomplete statistics show theycom-piled and published close to 600 kinds of ancient Tibetan classics after 1988; these works cover such fields as history, religion, language, literature, philosophy, law, medicine, geology and industrial art. In addition, they worked out 195,542 catalogues of ancient Tibetan classics, and 6,927 catalogues of other kinds of works.In late October 2002, the above-