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One of the most difficult aspects of cataloging a collection is determining what is a text, where it begins and ends, and what is a section. Though one might think it would be obvious, the boundaries are not always so clear. Our guidelines may be found in another section of the literature documentation. It is the section on Cataloging the Structure of a Text. One of our basic principles is in determining text boundaries is that generally the title line marks the beginning and the rdzogs so marks the end of a text.
All Tibetan entries in a form, whether titles or names, should end with a final "shad" and not a final "tsheg", excepting of course the Tibetan conventions of no shad after a final "g" and a tsheg+shad after a final "ng".