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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Running Commentary on the “Investigation of Logical Connections” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “The Science of Debate” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Establishing [the Existence of] Others' Continua” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tilaka (Forehead Mark) of Gnosis, a Yoginī Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ornament for [Dharmakīrti’s] “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Prajñākaragupta’s] “Ornament for [Dharmakīrti’s] ‘Commentary on [Dignāga’s] Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Third Chapter of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Commentary on [Dignāga’s] ‘Valid Cognition’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Prajñākaragupta’s] “Ornament for [Dharmakīrti’s] ‘Commentary on [Dignāga’s] Valid Cognition’” called “Utter Purity” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Chapter Three of The Explanatory Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Ascertainment of Valid Cognition” called “The Correct” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Ascertainment of Valid Cognition” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Chapters One and Two of The Explanatory Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Ascertainment of Valid Cognition” called “The Correct” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Lamp of Reality | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Drop of Reasoning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Drop of Reasoning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Abridgement of the Opponent’s Thesis in [Dharmakīrti’s] “Drop of Reasoning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Drop of Reasoning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Drop of Logical Reasons” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Drop of Logical Reasons” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of [Dharmakīrti’s] “Investigation of Logical Connections” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Following [Dharmakīrti’s] “Investigation of Logical Connections” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Establishing [the Existence of] Others' Continua” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Science of Debate” called “Revealing the Meaning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Buddhakapāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on [Dharmakīrti’s] “Science of Debate” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Dignāga’s] “Investigation of the Observed Object” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp Establishing Reasoning | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses Establishing [the Existence of] Omniscience | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses Establishing [the Existence of] External Objects | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses Investigating Hearing | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses Investigating Other-Exclusion | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on the Impermanence of the Lord of the Gods | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Investigation of Valid Cognition | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Investigation of Valid Cognition | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Mahāmāyā Tantra | 84000 | translated | |
| An Exposition of so-called “Other-Exclusion” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing the Existence of Future Lives | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Method of Reading Texts | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing the Existence of Momentary Impermanence | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of [Dharmottara’s] “Establishing the Existence of Momentary Impermanence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ascertaining the Simultaneity of the Object [and Consciousness] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Proving [the Theory of] Exclusion | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing the Existence of Causal Connections | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing the Nature of Cause and Effect | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing Consciousness-Only | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Vajrārali | 84000 | no translation | |
| Mutual Pervasion | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching the Reality of Logical Reasons | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Differentiation of Phenomena and Their Qualities | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Introduction to Reasoning for Children | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Speech of Reasoning | 84000 | no translation | |
| Connecting Reasons | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses on the Compendium of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Śāntarakṣita’s] “Compendium of Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Dignāga’s] “Compendium of Valid Cognition” called “The Stainless and the Vast” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Rules of the Cāndra [System of] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Rigyārali | 84000 | no translation | |
| Commentary on the Twenty Verbal Prefixes | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Rules of Phonemes | 84000 | no translation | |
| Commentary on [Candragomin’s] “Rules of Phonemes” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Section-heading Rules [for the Cāndra System] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on [Nominative] Inflections | 84000 | no translation | |
| [Treatise on the Verbal Conjugation] Endings [Beginning with] tiṄ [in the Cāndra System] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Brief Statement on Syntactic Relationships | 84000 | no translation | |
| Corpus of Verbal Roots [for the Cāndra System] | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Establishing Syntactic Relationships” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on [Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Cāndra System] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sovereign Tantra in Four Parts | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary in Eight Thousand [Verses] on the Grammar called “The Language of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Second Half of A Commentary [in Eight Thousand Verses] on the Grammar called “The Language of Mañjuśrī” from Section Five Onwards | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Rules of the Kātantra [System of] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Rules of the Kātantra [System of] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Rules of the Kātantra [System of] Grammar called “For the Benefit of Students” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Corpus of Verbal Roots for the Kātantra [System] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Rules of the Kātantra [System of] Grammar with Detailed Descriptions called “For the Benefit of Students” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Inflectional Rules [for Nouns with endings] Si etc. [in the Kātantra System] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Inflectional Rules for Nominal Inflections [with endings] Si etc., A Running Commentary on the Rules of the Kātantra [System of] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Discussion of Inflectional Rules for [the Forms] ending in Ti etc. | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra in Four Parts, the Mantra Portion | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Grammatical Treatise on the Correct Usage of Language | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Grammatical Treatise on the Correct Usage of Language” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary [on Vararuci’s “Summary” called] the Door to the Correct Usage [of Language] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Verse Treatise Summarizing Negation | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the “Treatise Summarizing Negation” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Door to Language called “An Exemplary Instrument” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Door to Language called An Exemplary Instrument” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Rules of the Sarasvatī [System of] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Great Treatise of “The Rules of the Sarasvatī [System of] Grammar,” called “The Clear Inflectional Rules” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Amarasiṃha’s Dictionary | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of Great Fortune | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Explanatory Tantra on the Four Parts | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “Amarasiṃha’s Dictionary” called “The Bountiful Cow” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Mirror of Poetry | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Cloud Messenger | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise on] Metrics, called “The Jewel Mine” | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise on] Metrics, called “The Jewel Mine” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Praise in the Form of a Garland of Metres | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Twelve Expressions | 84000 | no translation | |
| One Hundred [Medicinal] Compounds | 84000 | no translation | |
| Medical Advice for Longevity | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Practice of Water Medicine | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Essence of the Eight Branches of Medical Practices” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa | 84000 | translated | |
| A Compilation of the Essence of the Eight Branches | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of Medical Practices called “The Essence of the Eight Branches” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Essence of the Eight Branches” called “Rays of Moonlight on the Meaning of the Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Working with Mercurial Alchemy | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Alchemical Treatise on Transmuting [Base Metals into] Gold | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Characteristics of the Exalted Body as Described by the Perfect Buddha | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Characteristic Proportions of the Exalted Body | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Realizations of the Eighty [Four] Mahāsiddhas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Elimination of All Illnesses and Enhancement of Bodily Strength with the “Lord of All” Extracted-Essence [Pills] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Formulary for the Mixing of Incense | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Practice of Acala | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Methods in [Nāgārjuna’s] “Formulary for the Mixing of Incense” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sage Garga’s Teachings on Omens | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Nature of the Planets and Astrological Houses Found in [the Life-story of] Ārya Śārdūlakarṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| The King of Astrological Texts called “The Yuddhajayārṇava Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Results of Life-Events, [Ritual] Actions for so-called “Harmful Occurrences” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Jewel of the Crown | 84000 | no translation | |
| Revealing the Karmic Results of [Past Actions through] Present Life Astrology | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Meaning of the Astrology | 84000 | no translation | |
| Important Points of Karmic Results in Ascendant Astrology | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “One Hundred Verses on Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Political Ethics called “The Staff of Wisdom” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Tantra of the Mantras for the Wrathful Kings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Political Ethics called “A Drop of Nourishment for the People” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treasury of Verses | 84000 | no translation | |
| One Hundred Verses | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise of] Stainless Questions and Answers called “The Precious Garland” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Cāṇakya’s Treatise on the Political Ethics of a King | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Political Ethics | 84000 | no translation | |
| Qualities Indicated by Bodily Features | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Treatise on Analyzing [the Bodily Features of] People | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Analysis of the Distinctive Marks of People, [A Treatise] called “Bodily Features” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Historical Account of the Siddhi Obtained From Lokeśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Acalatantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Story of Candragomin | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Story of the Attainment of the Siddhi of Mahākaruṇika By Vīkhyātadeva | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Story of the Attainment of the Siddhi [of Mahākaruṇika] By A Carpenter | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Story of the Attainment of the Siddhi [of Mahākaruṇika] By A Woman | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Story of the Attainment of the Siddhi [of Mahākaruṇika] By Sukhadeva | 84000 | no translation | |
| Śalihotra's Compendium on Equine Medicine | 84000 | no translation | |
| [The Great Treatise on] Understanding Etymologies | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Glossary in Two Sections | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Foundational Description [of Tibetan Grammar] called “The Thirty” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A [Foundational] Description [of Tibetan Grammar], the Application of [Linguistic] Signs | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Vajrāmṛta | 84000 | no translation | |
| Root Text on the Eight Great [Linguistic] Topics | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Linguistics | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Sūtra [Unravelling the Intent] From a Valid Assessment of the Correct Words [of the Buddha] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom [Sūtra], A Commentary on the Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Wheel of Debating the Precious [Teachings] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Letter Condensing The Most Precious, A Dispatch to the Ruler and Peoples of Tibet | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Stages of the View | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Account of the Precious Teachings together with a Lineage of the Śākya Clan | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Sutra Unravelling the Intent | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Memorandum Condensing the Four Points, A Commentary on [the Vows of] the Conduct of Samantabhadra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Fifty Verses on the Guardians of the World | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Specifics of the View | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Foremost Buddha | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Memorandum Enumerating Phenomena | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Enumeration of Phenomena | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Handlist of Translations Found in the Denkar Palace in Upper Thang | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on [the Dharma Discourse called] “Ascertaining the Meanings” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Generating Special Insight | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise General Summary of the Mental Abidings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for [Attaining] the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of [Meditating on] Ugliness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Meditating on Love | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Practice Manual of Noble Tārā Kurukullā | 84000 | translated | |
| A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Reckoning Dependent-arising | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Dividing the Constituents | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Counting Breaths | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Brief Method for [Attaining] Calm Abiding Through Meditating on the Body | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Entering into Calm Abiding | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of Entering into Meditative Concentration | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Summary and Discussion of Just the Slightest Experience of the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prayer of Good Conduct | 84000 | translated | |
| The Aspiration of Maitreya | 84000 | translated | |
| The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light | 84000 | no translation | |
| Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage | 84000 | translated | |
| The Aspirational Prayer of King Suvarṇabhujendra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Aspirational Prayer Taken From “The Sūtra of the Questions of Subāhu” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Prayer from The Series of Gifts | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer for Engaging in the Deeds of a Bodhisattva | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajra Aspirational Prayer | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer to the Source of Enlightenment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Aspirational Prayer of the Venerable Candragomin | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Aspirational Prayer of Ārya Nāgārjuna | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer in Twenty Verses Taken from the Precious Garland of Advice to the King | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer to the Lineage | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Section of the Root Tantra of Vajrakīlaya | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Very Condensed Dedication | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer Taken From “Entering onto the Path of the Conqueror” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer called “The Seventy Verses” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Aspirational Prayer of the Master Kāmalaśīla called “The Two Parts” | 84000 | no translation |
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