user17056: Not sure what the earliest copy is we have of the Lankavatara Sutra, but wondering if it can be found online for free in copy/pastable text format (i.e. not PDF or image).
I am looking through The Kangyur on Thlib but not finding it anywhere. Does it exist in the Kangyur even, is it this?

user254: Per Wikipedia there's a Multilingual edition, Bibliotheca Polyglotta, University of Oslo.
You can use its UI to select how much is displayed -- i.e. one sentence or one chapter at a time, or the whole text at once -- and which laanguages.
The Tibetan and Sanskrit versions are in Roman text, plus there seems to be three Chinese versions/editions, written using Chinese characters.
http://www.dsbcproject.org/ has machine-readable Sanskrit editions of various suttas, you could also try browsing there and/or writing to sanskrit@uwest.edu to ask them.
I think that Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra might be also known as the Saddharmalankavatarasutram.
You're right though that what I see online is mostly non-text image scans.

Is my tibetan link correct do you know? http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=d/0108
It might be -- see the "Non-Tibetan Title" -- but I can't read the Tibetan to confirm that.
Also here is a copy from the link you posted:

That more-or-less matches what the Tohoku catalog says on page 25:

I say "more-or-less" because the page numbers match i.e. pages 56 through 191, however the section number is off by one (i.e. 108 instead of 107).

17056: <p>Not sure what the <em>earliest</em> copy is we have of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Buddhism#Lankavatara_Sutra" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Lankavatara Sutra</a>, but wondering if it can be found online for free in <strong>copy/pastable text format</strong> (i.e. not PDF or image).</p>
<p>I am looking through <a href="http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=d/k-1-4-1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Kangyur on Thlib</a> but not finding it anywhere. Does it exist in the Kangyur even, is it <a href="http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=d/0108" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>?</p>
 254: <p>Per Wikipedia there's a <a href="http://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=volume&amp;vid=441" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Multilingual edition</a>, Bibliotheca Polyglotta, University of Oslo.
You can use its UI to select how much is displayed -- i.e. one sentence or one chapter at a time, or the whole text at once -- and which laanguages.
The Tibetan and Sanskrit versions are in Roman text, plus there seems to be three Chinese versions/editions, written using Chinese characters.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dsbcproject.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.dsbcproject.org/</a> has machine-readable Sanskrit editions of various suttas, you could also try browsing there and/or writing to sanskrit@uwest.edu to ask them.
I think that Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra might be also known as the Saddharmalankavatarasutram.</p>
<p>You're right though that what I see online is mostly non-text image scans.</p>
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<p><strong>Is my tibetan link correct do you know? <a href="http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=d/0108" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=d/0108</a></strong></p>
<p>It might be -- see the &quot;Non-Tibetan Title&quot; -- but I can't read the Tibetan to confirm that.</p>
<p>Also here is a copy from the link you posted:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KsqkJ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KsqkJ.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>That more-or-less matches what <a href="http://prajnaquest.fr/downloads/BookofDzyan/Tohoku%20Catalogue%20of%20Tibetan%20Buddhist%20Canons.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Tohoku catalog</a> says on page 25:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JPUXp.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JPUXp.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>I say &quot;more-or-less&quot; because the page numbers match i.e. pages 56 through 191, however the section number is off by one (i.e. 108 instead of 107).</p>
