藏文文献库
A catalogue of Tibetan religious texts assembled from several independent sources. Translation projects catalogue what they intend to translate; this is an attempt to record what the tradition actually contains, including whole classes of literature that no translation project currently covers.
25,300texts catalogued 12,686ready to translate (text on disk) 18categories 9sources
Holding a catalogue entry is not the same as holding a text. This library distinguishes three states, and the distinction matters because only the first can actually be sent to a translator:
Assorted Tibetan Buddhist texts that belong to no single lineage or print collection.
A general collection of Tibetan Buddhist texts circulated for study and practice.
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is two large collections. The Kangyur holds works attributed to the Buddha and to Indian masters, in translation; the Tanjur holds the commentaries and treatises that explain them. Different editions — Derge, Pedurma, Narthang, Lithang and many others — contain slightly different selections, so the same text often survives in several recensions. Editions overlap; a volume count is not a text count.
The 'translated word' — scriptures and tantras the tradition holds to be the Buddha's teaching, preserved in Tibetan translation. Traditionally 100 to 108 volumes. It opens with the Vinaya (monastic discipline), then the Perfection of Wisdom, then the great sutras, then the tantras.
The 'translated treatises' — Indian commentaries, philosophical works, grammar, medicine and poetics. Roughly 225 volumes in the Derge edition. This is where the systematic philosophy lives: Madhyamaka, Yogacara, Abhidharma and epistemology.
Tantras of the Nyingma, the 'ancient' school, which the later canons exclude. Includes the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) scriptures. Collected as the Nyingma Gyübum. This material is central to the tradition and largely absent from the Kangyur, so it is easily missed by anyone browsing only the standard canon.
Bon is Tibet's pre-Buddhist religion, which survives as a living tradition with its own canon — a Bon Kangyur and a Bon Tanjur — structured like the Buddhist ones but with distinct scriptures and lineages. Frequently left out of Tibetan Buddhist bibliographies entirely, which is why it has a top-level category here.
Tibetan Buddhist texts translated into Mongolian, printed in editions such as the Peking and Ulaanbaatar Kangyurs. Useful independently: a Mongolian translation sometimes preserves a reading lost from the Tibetan witnesses.
Manuscript collections, regional canons and fragmentary survivals that are not one of the major editions — monastic library holdings and archaeological remains. Often the oldest surviving witnesses to a text, and often the least studied.
Isolated volumes and partial survivals: a single folio, a damaged manuscript, a scattered volume. These matter for textual history because they are sometimes centuries older than the complete editions.
A collected edition of guru-related liturgical and instructional literature, digitised by BDRC.
A Karma Kagyü collection: liturgies, sadhanas and instructional texts of the Karma tradition.
Texts associated with the Drikung Kagyu lineage and its Chetsang holders.
Texts for which at least one English translation is recorded in this database. Sourced from the 84000 catalogue and from evidence found in Harvard Hollis.
Texts with no English translation recorded. Treat this honestly: for many of these the correct statement is 'not established' rather than 'none exists' — no systematic search has been run against them. The distinction is preserved in the database rather than flattened.
| Title | Category | Source | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Sādhana called “The Primordial Buddha, the Jñānasattva Mañjuśri” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Ritual for the Establishment of a Stūpa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Mañjuśrī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajrabhairava Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Kālayamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Acala Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Skill in Means | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Observances of the Noble Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Mañjuśrī’s Vajra Vase | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Jñānasattva Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Reading “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Bhagavan Mañjuśrī in Terms of the Stages of Manifest Enlightenment in Twenty Aspects | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Five Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty-Three Names of the Buddha | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of All of the Maṇḍalas in “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Explanations Connected to the “Universal Secret Tantra” called “The Lamp of Secrets” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Word-by-Word Commentary on the Meaning of the “Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Great King of Subtle Yoga Rituals called “The Radiant King of the Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “The Great King of Tantras, The Radiant King of the Purification of All Bad Transmigrations, the Bhagavan, the Tathāgata, the Arhat, the Perfectly Complete Buddha” called "The Beautiful Ornament" | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Ritual Text called the Radiant King of The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” called “The Ornament of Illumination” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Ritual Text called “The Radiant King of the Purification of All Bad Transmigrations, the Bhagavan, the Tathāgata, the Arhat, the Perfectly Complete Buddha” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the General Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Acceptance That Tames Beings with the Sky-Colored Method of Perfect Conduct | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Maṇḍala of “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Glorious “Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” called “The Garland of Compassion” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Funeral Ritual according to “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Actions in the Pacification Ritual according to “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Method of “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual according to “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of the Maṇḍala Ritual according to “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for a Funeral according to “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Sādhana of the Maṇḍala for “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Ritual for “The Purification of All Bad Transmigrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Liberation | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Noble Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp Illuminating Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Consecration Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred and Fifty Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of the One Hundred Syllable Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of the One Hundred Syllable Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Minor Chapters on the Rituals of Homage and the Clearing away of Remorse in the Noble Sūtra of the Great Realization | 84000 | no translation | |
| On the Qualities of the Garland of Recitations | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ablution Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Making a Reliquary | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Akṣobhya Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Akṣobhya Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual called “Overcoming All Karmic Obstructions” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Akṣobhya Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Akṣobhya Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Akṣobhya Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Bouquet of Flowers | 84000 | translated | |
| A Vajradharma Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the Sections of Various Holy Ornaments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of “The Manifest Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on “The Manifest Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Word Commentary on the Great Tantra of “The Manifest Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual Included in “The Manifest Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of the Vairocana Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Secret Tantra of Mañjuśrī and A Commentary called “The Treasury of All Activities” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Secret Tantra of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual for the Bhagavan, the Wrathful Mañjughoṣa Yamāntaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Secret Tantra, the Ritual for Completely Conquering Wrathful Deities | 84000 | no translation | |
| Calling Witness with a Hundred Prostrations | 84000 | translated | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Distinct Stages of Subsequent Meditative Absorption | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of the Questions of Subāhu Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Memorandum Explaining the Meaning of the Words of the Questions of Subāhu Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Memorandum Commenting Upon the Concise Meaning of the Questions of Subāhu Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Siddhaikavīra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Dhāraṇī called “The Ritual of the Noble Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Dhāraṇī of the Noble Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for Subduing Elemental Spirits | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā called “The Vajra Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of King of the Inconceivable | 84000 | translated | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā called “The Clear Jewel” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā called “The Precious Garland” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Distinct Stages of the Dhāraṇī of Vajravidāraṇā called “The Clear Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Dhāraṇī called “Observing the Essence and Commitments of All Tathāgatas” of Vimaloṣṇīṣa whose Light-rays Provide Entry into the Universal Gateway | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on Sitātapatrā, Arisen from the Uṣṇīṣa of All Tathāgatas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on the Sūtra “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Sūtra “The Great Peahen, Queen of Incantations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Sūtra “Great Upholder of the Secret Mantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Sūtra of Mahāśītavatī, The Queen of Knowledge Mantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of the Six Doors | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Versified Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Attaining Limitless Doors | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Dhāraṇī of Attaining Limitless Doors | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Hundred Syllable Mantra of Trisamayavyūharāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Aparimitāyus | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Aparimitāyurjñāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Candragarbha Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | translated | |
| The Seven Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| A Ritual of Aparimitāyurjñāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| Mañjuvajra Who Increases Intelligence | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Solitary Hero Mañjughoṣa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Siṃhanāda Mañjughoṣa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Wisdom Wheel of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Moving Wheel of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Vāgīśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Vāgīśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of The One [Whose Body Is] Like Fresh Saffron | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Eight Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| A Praise of the Bhagavan Ārya Mañjuśrī together with a Blessing | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Jñānaguṇabhadra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Mañjughoṣa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Ritual of the Arapacana Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Arapacana Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Arapacana Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual for White Mañjughoṣa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ārya Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual of the Ārya Arapacana Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Ten Buddhas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Five Deities of Amoghapāśa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Assembled Deities of the Maṇḍala of Amoghapāśa called “The Stainless Light” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the World Protector called "The Dispeller of Evils, Manohara" | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Mahākāruṇika with a Dedication | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Lokeśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Five Deities of Amoghapāśa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Avalokitśvara by Carpaṭi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the World Protector Khasarpaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Lokeśvara in One Hundred [Verses] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Lokeśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Twelve Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| A Praise of the Five Deities of Mahākāruṇika of Maṇidvīpa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Lamentation to Mahākāruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Lamentation to Mahākāruṇika called “The Blessed” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Compassion | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Avalokiteśvara by the Son of the Nāga King Vāsuki | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Thousand-armed Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Six Syllable Mantra of Ārya Lokeśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Venerable Eleven-headed Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Buddha’s Crown | 84000 | translated | |
| A Praise of the Venerable Mahākāruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Khasarpaṇa Mahākaruṇika in Four Stanzas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lokeśvara Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Jñānasattva Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Meditation on Tricakra Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Five Deity Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Four Immeasurables of Glorious Lokanātha | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Six Syllable Mantra of Glorious Lokanātha | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Mahākaruṇika Who Eases the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Mahākaruṇika Without Words | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Buddhahood | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Meditation on Emptiness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Blazing Khasarpaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice on the Three Bodies of Glorious Khasarpaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Khecara Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Stainless Sky | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Sky-Treasure, Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Eleven-headed Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Jñānacakra Khasarpaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Wish-fulfilling Jewel Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Mahākaruṇika in the Potala Palace on the Mountain Peak | 84000 | no translation | |
| Not Forsaking the Buddha | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Cakravartin Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Blazing Wheel of the Body of Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Ascetic Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Yoga of Constant Activities of Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Sādhana of Glorious Lokanātha | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual of Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual of the Inconceivable | 84000 | no translation | |
| Actions With Regard To Aspirational Prayers | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Food Ritual for Obtaining the Elixir of Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Eight Maṇḍalas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Offering the Body | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Water Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Water Torma Ritual of Glorious Mahākaruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Images | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Images and Stūpas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Blazing Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Purification of Stains | 84000 | no translation | |
| Repairing Broken Vows | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Quickly Generating a Samādhi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Eight Auspicious Ones | 84000 | translated | |
| Personal Instructions on Stabilizing a Samādhi | 84000 | no translation |
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| 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha | 4,510 |
| Tibetan Wikipedia | 364 |
| Kangyur (bka' 'gyur) — BDRC eText collection | 103 |
| Shechen collection | 100 |
| Lotsawa House — Tibetan originals (/bo/) | 64 |
| VOA / RFA Tibetan news | 29 |
| OTDO — Old Tibetan Documents Online | 29 |