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 Confession Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Tārā Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Smaller Śaṃvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Tārā Practice for the Attainment of the Supreme State | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Tārā who Provides Refuge from the Eight Fears | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious White Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Tārā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Tārā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Ritual for Meditating on the Goddess Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Refuge from the Eight Fears | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Appendix to the Discourse Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Binding Bandits | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣiṇī Attendant to Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sragdharā Sādhana Together with a Praise | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Goddess Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ārya Tārā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sarasvatī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana with a Praise of Sarasvatī, the Daughter of Brahma, called “Light Rays of Speech” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Goddess Vajrasarasvatī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Benefits of the Five Precepts | 84000 | translated | |
| Vajraḍāka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vasudhārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| The One Hundred and Eight Names of Vasudhārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer to Vasudhārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Vasudhārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on the Attainments of a Garuda | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Goddess Sarasvatī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Concise Teaching on the Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Realization that Illuminates the Celestial Mansion called “The Lamp Dispelling Darkness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp for the Three Modes | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Establishing Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Abridged Explanation of All the Words of the Sugata called “Entering into Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Supplementary Tantra of Vajraḍāka | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Method of Secret Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Essence of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Presentation of the Three Vehicles | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of Entering into the Meaning of Unexcelled Yoga Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Eliminating the Two Extremes of the Vajra Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Path of Seeing Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Lineage of Gurus | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of the Path of the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Introduction to Secret Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Introduction to Secret Mantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ocean of Ḍākas, a Yoginītantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp Condensing the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| Fifty Verses on Guru Devotion | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of Devotion to a Guru | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Brief Summary of the General Commitments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Non-contradictory Nature of Ethics, Vows, and Commitments | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of All Commitments | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Summary of Commitments for Beginners | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise on] The Three Vows called “A Garland of Light” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Activities for [the Purification of] Transgressions of the Vajrayāna Root [Commitments] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp Illuminating Disgust | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Arising of Śaṃvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great King Vaiśravaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Ritual Activities of the Great King Virūḍhaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the King of Yakṣas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great King Kubera | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vaiśravaṇa Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Manual for Vaiśravaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Manual for Vaiśravaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the King of Vighnas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Secret [Commitment of] Gaṇapati | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Commitment of Vajra Desire of Ārya Gaṇapati | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Arising of Heruka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Meghāloka Gaṇapati | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Gaṇapati called “Clearing Away Obstacles” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ucchuṣma Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ucchuṣma Jambhala Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Jambhala Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Ucchuṣma Jambhala Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ārya Black Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Distinctive Qualities of Ārya Jambhala Jalendra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Ārya Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Rotation of Yoginīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Personal Instructions on Ucchuṣma Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Goddess Vasudhārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Glorious Goddess Vasudhārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Yakṣa Aparājita | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Distinguishing the Stages of the Seven Maṇḍalas From the Array of Vajras Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Account of Travelling to Mt. Potalaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Teaching on the Great Enlightenment | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Prayer of Supplication to the Eighty-Four Siddhas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Holy Guru Puṇyaśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Union with the Four Yoginīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Maṇḍala Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Guru Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium for Beginners | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Main Path to Enlightenement | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Compendium of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual Compiled From Various Tantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Awakening of Vārāhī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual for All the Dharma Protectors | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Garland of Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| Torma Cakes for the Four Great Kings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Activites of the Stage of [Offering] a Great Torma Cake | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Medium-length Ritual for [Offering] a Three Part [Torma Cake] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Water Torma Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation in the Form of Personal Instructions on Entering into the Yoga of Mahāmudrā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual called “The Source of Elixir” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Water Torma Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Preeminence of Vārāhī, a Sovereign Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Nāga Torma Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness on the Three Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness for the Five Tathāgatas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Eight Verses of Auspiciousness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations,” A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| A General Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations,” A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on the Eight Clear Realizations as the Common Meaning of the Three [Large Perfection of Wisdom Sūtras in] One Hundred Thousand Lines, Twenty-Five Thousand Lines, and Eight Thousand Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Supplementary Tantra to the Tantra "The Preeminence of Vārāhī" | 84000 | no translation | |
| The [Recast] Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines, An Illumination of “The Ornament for Clear Realizations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Verses that Summarize the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A General Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom,” An Illumination of the Points that are Difficult to Understand | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of [Haribhadra’s] Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom,” A Clarification of the Words | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of [Maitreya’s “Treatise of Personal Instructions on] the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Verses [that Summarize the Perfection of Wisdom]” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations,” A Sliver of Its Glory | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of Giriyānanda | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Propitiation Ritual of Vajrayoginī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Bhagavatī, the Perfection of Wisdom,” A Garland of Lamps of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations” called “Pristine Intelligence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “The [Perfection of Wisdom in] One Hundred Thousand Lines” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of “The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines,” The Supreme Essence | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp for the Concise Meaning of the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Noble Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines,” called "Moonlight for [Illuminating] the Critical Points" | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Key to the Treasury of the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Long Commentary on “The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Long Explanation of the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand, Twenty-Five Thousand, and Eighteen Thousand Lines | 84000 | translated | |
| A Verse Summary of “The Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Emergence from Sampuṭa | 84000 | translated | |
| An Exposition of [Dignāga’s] “Verse Summary of The Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation [of “The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines”] called “Following the Personal Instructions of the Bhagavatī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Nine Verse Summary of the Bhagavati, The Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the “Nine Verse Summary of the Bhagavati, The Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “The Perfection of Wisdom in Seven Hundred Lines” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “The Perfection of Wisdom in Seven Hundred Lines” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Seven Subjects of “The Perfection of Wisdom, ‘The Diamond Cutter’ [Sūtra]” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “The Perfection of Wisdom, ‘The Diamond Cutter’ [Sūtra]” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “The Essence of the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “The Essence of the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tilaka of Sampuṭa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Bhagavatī, The Essence of the Perfection of Wisdom,” A Lamp [Illuminating] the Meaning | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “The Essence of the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Complete Understanding of the Meaning of “The Essence of the Perfection of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “The Essence of [the Perfection of] Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Way called “Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sixty Verses on Reasoning | 84000 | no translation | |
| Aphorisms called “The Finely Woven” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Seventy Verses on Emptiness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses in Refutation of Objections | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Fundamental [Treatise on the] Middle Way,” called “Fearlessness From All” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Guhyavajra, a Sovereign Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition on “The Finely Woven” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Seventy Verses on Emptiness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Refutation of Objections” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Twenty [Verses] on the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| One Hundred Words | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “One Hundred Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “The Heart of Dependent Origination” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Conceiving of the Inconceivable” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Precious Treasury of the Unborn | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Glorious King of Tantras That Resolves All Secrets | 84000 | translated | |
| Passing Beyond the Mundane World | 84000 | no translation | |
| Commentary on [Nāgārjuna's] "Passing Beyond the Mundane World" | 84000 | no translation | |
| Buddhapālita’s Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “Fundamental [Treatise on the] Middle Way [Called ‘Wisdom’]” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Illustration of the Three Natures | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Grasping with the Hand” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Exposition called “Grasping with the Hand” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Verse Treatise called “The Four Hundred” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing Rational Reasons for Refuting Errors | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of “The Extent of the Hand Exposition” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Extent of the Hand” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Inconceivable Secrets of Cakrasaṃvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| Overcoming Errors With Regard to the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| Compendium of the Essence of Exalted Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| Explanations Connected to “The Compendium of the Essence of Exalted Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| “Lamp of Wisdom,” A Running Commentary on “The Fundamental [Treatise on the] Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Precious Lamp of the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on the Heart of the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| “The Blaze of Reasoning,” A Running Commentary on “The Heart of the Middle Way” | 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 |