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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Concise Meaning of the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise on] The Middle Way, called "Dependent Arising" | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on [Bhāviveka’s] “Lamp of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Equal to the Sky | 84000 | translated | |
| A Running Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Way” called “The Clear Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering into the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “Entering into the Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| “Entering into the Wisdom of the Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “Sixty Verses on Reasoning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Āryadeva’s] “Four Hundred” on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Five Aggregates | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “Seventy Verses on Emptiness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Seventy Verses on Emptiness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses called “The Hammer of Reasoning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Great Sky | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Candrakīrti's] “Entering into the Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points Explaining [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compositional Analysis of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Settling the Points that are Difficult to Understand in [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Wisdom Chapter [of Śāntideva’s “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva”] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Wisdom and Dedication Chapters of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva”] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of the Thirty-Six Points of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Body, Speech, and Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Import of [Śāntideva’s] “Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva” called “Clarifying the Specifics” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on Distinguishing Between the Two Truths | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “Distinguishing Between the Two Truths” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Jñānagarbha's] “Distinguishing Between the Two Truths” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on the Ornament for the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Ornament for the Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Śāntarakṣita’s] “Ornament for the Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Splendour of the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “The Splendour of Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Proving the Naturelessness of All Phenomena | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Jewel Garland | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise called “The Door for Entering into the Three Bodies” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Nāgamitra’s “Door for Entering into] the Three Bodies” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “Entering into Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Exposition of the Pith of the Middle Way System | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on the Falsity of Aspects | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “The Garland of Splendour” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Garland of Splendour” called “The Creator of Bliss for the Mind” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Differentiating Between the Compounded and Uncompounded | 84000 | no translation | |
| Concisely Distinguishing the Different [Philosophical] Views | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on Distinguishing the Scriptures of the Sugata | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sūtra of the Taming of the Nāga King Nandopananda | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Great Vow | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “Distinguishing the Scriptures of the Sugata” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Garland of Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering into the Two Truths | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ornament for the Intention of the Sage | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary Providing a Brief Explanation called “Vanquishing [Notions of] Valid Cognition” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of the Characteristics of the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Investigation of the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Particulars [of the View] that Sheds Light on All the Vehicles | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Path of Yogic Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Great Power | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Meaning of Non-conceptual Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Heap of Lotus-like Words on the Cultivation of Conventional Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp of Jewel-like Words on the Cultivation of Ultimate Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| On the Cultivation of Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables | 84000 | no translation | |
| The [First Treatise on] Stages of Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| The [Second Treatise on] Stages of Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| The [Third Treatise on] Stages of Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering into Yogic Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Noble Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Glorious King of Tantras “Wisdom Secret” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Stages of Cultivation of a Thorough Analysis of the Body | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Meditation on Ugliness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Stages of Meditation of the Perfection Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Recollection of the Buddha called "The Unsurpassed Meditation" | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Monograph of a Collection on Samādhi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Monograph of a Collection on Samādhi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Presentation of Six Teachings on Meditative Absorption | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Presentation of Six Teachings on Meditative Absorption” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Single Recollection | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Garland of Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Middle Way called “An Open Basket of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Personal Instructions on the Middle Way” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Presentation of Opposing Viewpoints on Samādhi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of Sūtras on the Stages of Meditation | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of “The Compendium of Sūtras,” called "An Ornament Illuminating the Jewels" | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Garland of Jeweled Lamps Summarizing the Deeds of Bodhisattvas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of “The Compendium of Sūtras” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Meaning of the Gradual Cultivation [of the Non-conceptual State] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of the Compendium of Study Materials | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Blazing Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Compendium of Study Materials | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Confession of Transgressions and Protection in One Hundred Syllables, the Essence of a Tathāgata | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Realization of the Compendium of Study Materials | 84000 | no translation | |
| Study Materials called “The Bouquet of Flowers” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Perfections | 84000 | no translation | |
| Cultivating the Grounds of a Beginner | 84000 | no translation | |
| Brief Instructions on the Deeds of a Bodhisattva | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Essence [of All Buddhas] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Garland of the Moon | 84000 | no translation | |
| Noting Down the Essence [of All the Buddhas’ Teachings] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Bodhisattva’s Garland of Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on Entering into the Path of a Bodhisattva Beginner | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on Going for Refuge | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Few Concise Words on Practicing the Mahāyāna Path | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Few Words Written about the Stages of One’s Activities Together with a Request | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions Condensing the Meaning of the Various Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on the Path of the Ten Non-virtuous Actions | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing [Virtuous and Non-virtuous] Actions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Blazing Jewel | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp Summarizing the Deeds [of a Bodhisattva] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Compendium of Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of the Stages of the Path of a Bodhisattva | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Personal Instructions on the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering onto the Path of a Conqueror | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Summary of the Meaning of the Sūtra on Purifying the Field of Activity of a Bodhisattva | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Generation of Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ritual for [Bestowing] Bodhisattva Vows | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Generation of Bodhicitta and Taking up [the Practice of] a Tutelary Deity | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Graded Ritual for Bodhicitta and the Vows | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Disk of the Sun | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Taking Bodhisattva Vows | 84000 | no translation | |
| Seventy Verses on Going for Refuge to the Three [Jewels] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Six-branched [Practice of] Going for Refuge | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ritual for the Confession of Downfalls | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ritual for the Confession of Downfalls | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Respect While Reading Scriptures and [Performing] Daily Recitations | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Stamping Votive Images According to the Perfection Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| Stages of a Guru’s Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| Stages of the Three Vows | 84000 | no translation | |
| Four-branched Dharma Practice | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the King of Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seven-branches of Entering into Proper Dharma Practice | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Sūtra Unraveling the Intent | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on The Recollection of the Buddha | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on The Recollection of Dharma | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Recollection of the Saṅgha | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on The Rice Seedling | 84000 | no translation | |
| Extensive Commentary on the Mahāyāna Sūtra, The Rice Seedling | 84000 | no translation | |
| Extensive Commentary on The Recollection of the Buddha | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of a Single Verse | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Tantra of Vajraḍāka | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Noble Sūtra on the Four Factors | 84000 | translated | |
| Commentary on An Explanation of the Noble Sūtra The Four Dharmas | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Sūtra On Gayāśīrṣa Hill | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Vasubandhu’s Commentary] Interwoven with The Noble Sūtra On Gayāśīrṣa Hill | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Ten Bhūmis | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on The Teaching of Ākṣayamati | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Extensive Explanation of Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Sūtra On the Bhūmi of Buddhahood | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Vasubandhu’s] Explanation of The Ten Bhūmis | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Introduction to the Sūtra The Ten Bhūmis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Bhikṣuṇīs’ Prātimokṣa Sūtra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Mahākāśyapa Sūtra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Tantra of the Blazing Fire | 84000 | no translation | |
| Extensive Commentary on The Dhāraṇī “Entering into Nonconceptuality” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on The Rice Seedling | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Sūtra on Wisdom at the Hour of Death | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Mahāyāna Sūtra “Wisdom at the Hour of Death” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Confession of Transgressions of Bodhi[sattvas] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Confession of Transgressions of Bodhi[sattvas] According to Bodhisattva Precepts | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation on the Ritual of the Purification of Karmic Obstructions | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Three Heaps | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Kāśyapa Chapter of the One-Hundred-Thousand Dharma Discourses of the Great Heap of Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Tantra of Ambrosia | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Mahāyāna Sūtra “The King of Samādhis, the Revealed Equality of the Nature of All Phenomena,” called “The Garland of Renown” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Connected Explanation of the Great King of Prayers for Good Conduct | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary for the Purpose of The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the King of Prayers for Good Conduct | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the King of Prayers for Good Conduct | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Prayer for Good Conduct | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Profound Sūtra Unraveling the Intent | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the White Lotus of the Good Dharma | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on The Descent into Laṅkā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on The Descent into Laṅkā called "The Ornament of the Heart of the Tathāgata" | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Ornament of the Charnel Ground | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses on the Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses on Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing Phenomena and Their Nature | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses on Distinguishing Phenomena and Their Nature | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Explanation of The Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of The Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on Distinguishing Phenomena and Their Nature | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on The Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| Tantra of the Vajra King | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the First Two Verses of The Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of the Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation Singling Out the Chapter of the Noble Maitreya in The Sūtra Unraveling the Intent | 84000 | no translation |
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| rKTs — Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies | 8,104 |
| 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 |