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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Praise of the Jātaka Tales | 84000 | no translation | |
| Praise of the Holy Guru | 84000 | no translation | |
| Infinite Jewels | 84000 | translated | |
| Extensive Commentary on the Meaning of the Condensed Hevajra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Hevajra Tantra called “A Pond of Lotuses” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Exposition of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Jewel Garland of Yoga | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on the King of Tantras, the Hevajra, called “The Utterly Stainless Union” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points called “The Water Lily” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Condensed Hevajra Tantra, called “The Essence of the Vajra Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Second Part, "Illusion," of the Great Sovereign Tantra of Hevajra, called “The Vale of Memory” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the King of Tantras known as “Hevajra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A String of Pearls | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sūtra of the Great Parinirvāṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Union of Utter Clarity | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Great King of Tantras, the Glorious Hevajra, called “Opening the Eyes” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious Hevajra Tantra called “Gathering the Vajra Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Meaning of the Tantra known as “The Glorious Hevajra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the King of Tantras, the Vajra Tent of Ḍākīṇis, called “An Introduction” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Explanations Connected to the First [Ritual] Part of the Great King of Tantras known as “The Noble Vajra Tent of Ḍākīṇis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the King of Tantras, the Vajra Net of Ḍākīṇis, called “Expanding Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the King of Yoginī Tantras known as the “Glorious Tilaka of Sampuṭa,” called “Illuminating the Memory of Pure Vision” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the King of Tantras known as the “Glorious Sampuṭa,” called “The Bouquet of Personal Instructions” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Great Secret and Introduction to All the Tantras, the Glorious “Emergence from Sampuṭa,” called “The Garland of Precious Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines | 84000 | translated | |
| The Mahāyāna Sūtra of the Great Parinirvāṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Secret Meaning called “The Utterly Marvelous” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary called “The Eye of Joy” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points called “The Lamp of Simultaneous Joy” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “The Tilaka of Gnosis Tantra” called “The Secret Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Tantra known as “The Unsullied” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “The Glorious Tantra of the Lamp of Reality” called “The Secret Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on Intentional Language | 84000 | no translation | |
| Suchness in a Song | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Saroruhavajra’s] Vajra Song | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Clear Realization | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Great Parinirvāṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Sixty-Four Periods of Time | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing the Suchness of Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Eight Charnel Grounds | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Eight Charnel Grounds | 84000 | no translation | |
| Accurately Defining the Terminology | 84000 | no translation | |
| Settling the Meaning of the Meeting Places and So Forth | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Eight Charnel Grounds | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary called “The Glorious Bouquet of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana for the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Stages of Activity for the Maṇḍala of Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Wisdom at the Hour of Death | 84000 | translated | |
| Advice Like the Tip of the Flame of the Lamp of Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Hevajra Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| Praise of Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Five Commitments | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Venerable Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Solitary Hero” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Glorious Hevajra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offerings from The Hevajra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ten Suchnesses | 84000 | no translation | |
| Words of the Dharma, 'The Treasury of the Buddhas' | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice on the Uncommon Meaning of Yogis and Yoginīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Food Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Hevajra Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Practices of a Mendicant | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Hevajra with Two Arms | 84000 | no translation | |
| Reflecting Solely on Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Explanation of the Hevajra Sādhana called “The Pristine Vajra Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Hevajra called “Clarity” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Six Branches” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Jewel Mine | 84000 | translated | |
| A Practical Maṇḍala Ritual called “Holding on to the Best” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Torma Cakes for All Elemental Spirits | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Four Suchnesses called “The Clear Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “Hevajra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Hevajra Sādhana called “The Pristine Treasury” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “Abandoning Errors” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Simultaneous Yoga | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the True Simultaneous Yoga called “Completely Revealing the Essence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Bhagavan Hevajra called “The Four Stages of Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Gold Sūtra | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “Blazing Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Solitary Hero Form of Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Hevajra Sādhana called “Illuminating Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual and Guide to the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Fire Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Hevajra Fire Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Method for Consecration | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Making Offerings of Food Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Stūpas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Like Gold Dust | 84000 | translated | |
| A Ritual for the Dead | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual called “Elemental Spirits of Glorious Heruka” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Glorious Heruka called “The Stages of Self-Empowerment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Stages of Activity for the Maṇḍala of Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Hevajra Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Hevajra Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Three Stages | 84000 | no translation | |
| One Hundred Terms that are the Essence of Bestowing Understanding | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Hevajra called “The Jewelled Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Empowerment Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| The King of Samādhis Sūtra | 84000 | translated | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual called “The Arising of Heruka” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Hevajra with Two Arms | 84000 | no translation | |
| Spelling Out [the Steps of Bestowing] the Empowerment of Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Spells for the Ten Wrathful Ones | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Secret Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Three Stages of the Great Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Two-Armed Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Drop of Clear Realization of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Abbreviated Actions in the Performance of the Dharma | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Making Clay Images | 84000 | no translation | |
| Appearing Differently to All While Not Departing from Emptiness, the Essence of the True Nature of Things | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Intent of a Bumblebee | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Suchness of Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| Funeral Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Sixteen-Arm Solitary Hero Form of Glorious Heruka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Opening the Eyes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Torma Cakes for the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Torma Cakes for Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Benefits of Hand Gestures | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Absorption of the Miraculous Ascertainment of Peace | 84000 | translated | |
| The Stages of the Great Tilaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Bhagavan Hevajra called “Revealing the Meaning of the Stages of Clear Realization” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Taking the Hand of Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Sixteen-Armed Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Torma Cakes for Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Activity for Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses that Summarize the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Illusory Absorption | 84000 | translated | |
| A Ritual for Torma Cakes for Elemental Spirits | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Hevajra Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Sādhana of Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Activity for Fire Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| Praise of the Glorious Hevajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sādhana of the Yoginī Nairātmā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Nairātmā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Fifteen Praises of the Goddess Nairātmā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarification of the Nairātmā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Teaching on the Nairātmā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Absorption of the Thus-Gone One’s Wisdom Seal | 84000 | translated | |
| Sādhana of the Solitary Form [of Nairātmā] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Nairātmā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Nairātmā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana for the Maṇḍala Wheel of Nairātmā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Self-Empowerment Sādhana for Kurukullā from the Stage of the Hevajra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions of the Guru [on Kurukullā Self-Empowerment] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Kurukullā Sādhana Taken From the Hevajra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Five Important Personal Instructions on the Kurukullā Sādhana Taken From the Hevajra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Tārā Kurukullā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Kurukullā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Kurukullā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on the Samādhi of Valiant Progress | 84000 | no translation | |
| Thirteen Deity Kurukullā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Kurukullā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Five Ḍākas in the Vajra Cage of Ḍākinīs Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana for Remembering the Collective Maṇḍala of the Vajra Cage of Ḍākinīs Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ten Suchnesses | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajratārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajratārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajratārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajratārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Funeral Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| [An Explanation of] Funeral Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on the Samādhi in which the Buddhas of the Present All Stand Before One | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Cremation Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “A Chip of the Great Jewel” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Jeweled Bindu” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Jewel of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Lord of the Great Wisdom Ḍakas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Samādhi of Fire Offerings to Purify All Transgressions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Joyous Garland of Flowers | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Elixir of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Precious Garland of Empowerments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Stages of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Absorption That Encapsulates All Merit | 84000 | translated | |
| The Five Stages | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stage of the Eight Branches | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Precious Light | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Light of the Elixir of Great Bliss | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Drop of Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tilaka of Great Secret Joy | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Glorious Kālacakra, King of Tantras, Taken from the Supreme Primordial Buddha Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Kālacakra Commentary, 'Stainless Light' | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ultimate Approach Practice | 84000 | no translation | |
| Explanations Connected with Entering into the Kālacakra Tantra of the Glorious Stainless Light “Illuminating the Unwavering Essence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Words of the Dharma on the Vajra Samādhi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points called “The Lotus Pond” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on the “Summary of Empowerment” called “The Ultimate Summary” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Annotations to the “Summary of Empowerment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the “Summary of Empowerment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Comentary on the Difficult Points of the “Summary of Empowerment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Empowerment Chapter of the Glorious Kālacakra, King of Tantras, called “Exposing the Vajra Words” | 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 |