Taishō Canon 

Short name of the Taishō Shinshū Daizokyō, being a collection of east Asian Buddhist scriptures and other canonical writings. Its name means ‘the great treasury of scriptures newly edited in the Taishō reign-period’. Commonly referred to simply as ‘Taishō’, this collection of 2,920 texts in 85 volumes was compiled and redacted between 1924 and 1932 by the Editorial Committee of the Japanese Tripiṭaka under the direction of Takakusu Junjirō. This edition of Chinese-language scriptures from China, Japan, and Korea was based on critical readings of several earlier canons, and is the most complete collection of east Asian scriptures available. It has become the standard reference for scholars of east Asian Buddhism, and citations from works included within this collection will generally give the document number and/or volume number, with the prefix ‘T.’, followed by the page number, register, and line in order to give the exact location of the passage. Thus, a reference that reads ‘T. 2016, 48: 524c13’ would point the reader to a passage from Yung-ming Yen-shou's Tsung ching lu, which is document number 2016 in the Taishō canon, which would be found in volume 48, page 524, the third register, beginning at line 13. Though other old editions of the Chinese canon have recently become available, this edition is still regarded as the standard among scholars and its ease of use has recently been enhanced by the publication of a CD-ROM version. Additionally a large multivolume concordance was compiled by the publishers during the 1970s and 1980s. See also Chinese Tripiṭaka.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)