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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Aspirational Prayer Proclaimed in the Susiddhikara Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer called “the King of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prayer of Sublime Action | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aspirational Prayer from Sections of the Perfection of Wisdom Sūtras | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Dedication [of the Merits] of Giving the Dharma by Reciting the Great Sūtra Sets such as the Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Throusand Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Dedication [of the Merits] of Giving the Dharma | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 44 | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Glorious Sovereign Tantra of Mahākāla | 84000 | translated | |
| The Verses of Auspiciousness for the Questions of the God | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Good Fortune | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Well-wishing | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness by the Lord of the Gods, Śakra to the Bhagavan | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness by the King of the Gods, Suyāma to the Bhagavan | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness by the King of the Gods, Pramudita to the Bhagavan | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses Expressing Auspiciousness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses of Well-wishing in the Sūtra on Entering the City of Vaiśālī [cf Toh 312, 628] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Well-Wishing Spoken in the “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Aspirational Prayer Spoken in the “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Prayer and Statement of Truth from The Great Peahen, Queen of Dhāraṇīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Extant Khasama Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses of Auspiciousness for the Seven Successive Past Buddhas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness of the Three Jewels [2] | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness of the Three Jewels [1] | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness of the Three Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Good Fortune of the Three Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Auspiciousness of the Three Families [2] | 84000 | translated | |
| The Auspiciousness of the Three Families [1] | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness Proclaiming the Truth | 84000 | no translation | |
| Aspiring for the Virtues of the Basis, Path, and Fruit, A Song Invoking the [Supreme] Friend | 84000 | no translation | |
| Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtras of Pāṇini’s [Sanskrit] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the [Grammatical] Rules of Pāṇini’s Treatise on [Sanskrit] Grammar and Arrangement of Notes on their Significance, Application, Examples, etc. called “The Chariot Leading to the Jewels of Eloquent Explanations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Explanation of “The Treasury of Abhidharma” called "The Suchness of the Object" | 84000 | no translation | |
| Rules for Verbal Roots in the Kātantra System [of Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sārasvatī [System of Sanskrit] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| Rules for Verbal Roots [for the Candra System of Sanskrit Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Rules for [Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Kātantra System of Sanskrit Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on [Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Kātantra System of Sanskrit Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| [Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Cāndra System of Sanskrit Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on [Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. in the Cāndra System [of Sanskrit Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Corpus of Verbal Roots [for the Cāndra System of Sanskrit Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Supplementary Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| [The Declension of Nouns and Adjectives] Ending in -sUP called “The Source of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Detailed Description of [The Declension of Nouns and Adjectives] Ending in -sUP | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Three [Types of] Suffixes | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Defining Characteristics of the Mañjuśrī System of [Sanskrit] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise on] Perfect Medical Practices | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Medicinal Pill called “The Noble Conquering Queen” Taken From the Profound Personal Instructions of Ārya Nāgārjunapāda | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treasury of Excellent Roots, A Collection of the Best Medicines Taken From the Profound Personal Instructions of Ārya Nāgārjunapāda | 84000 | no translation | |
| Identifying [Medicinal] Plant Roots and Their Established Categories | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Anthology Condensing the Essence of All Ayurvedic Medicine | 84000 | no translation | |
| The [Medical] Treatise of Dānadāsa, a Doctor from Pataha in India | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra, the Prophecy of the Intent | 84000 | no translation | |
| [The Medical Knowledge of] the Brahmaveda, Sāraṅgadhara, and Caraka | 84000 | no translation | |
| [Medicinal] Compounds Using the Samudrapala Plant That Was Offered to Gaṇapati by Devendra, Together With Its Decoctions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Advice of the Kṣatriya Doctor from Mathurā in Central India, Rāghunātha | 84000 | no translation | |
| Opening the Eyes and [Restoring] Meaningful Sight | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Root Text and Commentary on “The Nine Cycles of the Mirror of Magical Emanations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Nine Cycles of the Mirror of Magical Emanations” By Means of the Flower of Reasoning | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp of the Exalted Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp of the Correct View | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp Clearing Away the Darkness of Extreme [Views] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp of Method and Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Garland of Vajras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp of Methods for Meditating on the Definitive Meaning Just As It Is in the Yogācāra System | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp of the Precious View | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clear Words on the Application of “-ti” [Grammatical] Endings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Expressions called “Clarifying All Varieties” Also Known As “The Garland of Pearls” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise of Polysemous Expressions With Single Equivalent Terms called “The Garland of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Astrological Calculations According to the Kālacakra Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Garland of Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Dhāraṇī for Recalling [Previous] Lives | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Sūtras of the Cāndra [System of] Grammar | 84000 | no translation | |
| [A Treatise on Sanskrit] Metrics called “The Source of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Questions of the Four Goddesses | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Garland of Birth Stories” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Refuting [the Idea of] a Prime Deity as a Creator God and Specifically Refuting [the Idea of] Viṣṇu as a Unitary Creator | 84000 | no translation | |
| Nine Verses [on the Perfection of Wisdom] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sūtra of the Bhagavatī Prajñāpāramitā called “The Seven-Part Verse of the Noble One” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Introduction to [the Rules of the] Kātantra [System of Grammar] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra, Compendium of Vajra Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Tārāyoginī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Supplementary Tantra of Tārāyoginī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Chapter of the Teaching on the Threefold Restraint | 84000 | translated | |
| Compendium of Vajra Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Ornament of the Vajra Essence | 84000 | no translation | |
| Victory by Means of Non-dual Sameness, a Sovereign Practice | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Beginning Chapter of the Supremely Great Vajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Vajrapāṇi's Triple Dreadful Training | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Triple Dreadful Taming, a Division of the Secret Tantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Vajra Staff of Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 4568 | 84000 | no translation | |
| Tengyur Catalogue | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Vajrapāṇi, Conquest of the Triple World | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Tantra, The Wrathful Thought of the Vajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Later Secret Tantra, The Wrathful Thought of the Vajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways | 84000 | translated | |
| The Supplementary Tantra to the Later Secret Tantra, The Wrathful Thought of the Vajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Dream Visions” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of the Flame of the Vajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Vajra Flame | 84000 | no translation | |
| Vajrapāṇi’s Secret Revelation | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of the Secret Revelation of Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Wrathful Vajra-Bliss | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Net of Magical Illusion | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Black Yamāri | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of the Great Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Black Yamāri in Three Chapters | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secrets of the Realized Ones | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of the Practice of Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Myth Chapter | 84000 | translated | |
| The Rite of the Musk Shrew | 84000 | translated | |
| The Cycle Accomplishing All the Actions of Black Yamāri, a Sovereign Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Ekajaṭa | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Secret Ornament of the Moon | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Compendium of Realities | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching on Dreams | 84000 | translated | |
| The Great Secret Yogatantra, the Tip of the Vajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra, the Universal Secret | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Sovereign of Practices, the Victory Over the Three Worlds | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra Purifying Bad Rebirths | 84000 | translated | |
| The Rite for Destroying | 84000 | translated | |
| A Portion of the Practice of the Sovereign Tantra Purifying Bad Rebirth | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra Summarizing Consecration | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Supreme | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Section of the Chapter on Mantras of “The Supreme” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Principles of the Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred and Fifty Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Array of Amitābha | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra, the Ornament of the Vajra Essence | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Twenty-Five Gateways to the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of the Array of Secret Ornaments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Secret Jewel Ornament | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Practice Described as the Taming | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Vajrapāṇi Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Eight Goddesses | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of Blue-clad Vajrapāṇi Vajrapātāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| Detailed Explanations on Nuns’ Discipline | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Array of the Thus-Gone One Akṣobhya | 84000 | translated | |
| Moving Through the Three Vajra Levels, a Sovereign Practice | 84000 | no translation | |
| Blue-clad Vajrapāṇi, a Tantra to Tame the Three Worlds | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sovereign Tantra, Orderly Arrangement of the Three Vows | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Seven Thus-Gone Ones | 84000 | translated | |
| The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Blessed Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabha | 84000 | translated | |
| The Vaiḍūryaprabha Dhāraṇī | 84000 | translated | |
| A Mantra for Incanting Medicines When Administering Them | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Sovereign Practice of the Supreme Secret Found Especially in the Great Jewel Palace | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Secret Relics | 84000 | translated | |
| Dhāraṇī of the Hundred Thousand Ornaments of the Essence of Awakening | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī “One Hundred Thousand Ornaments of the Essence of Awakening” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Teaching of the Armor Array | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Stainless Rays of Pure Light” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Twelve Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Seven Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī Endowed with the Attributes of All the Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Discourse of the Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Heap of Flowers” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Immaculate” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī, the Sandalwood Branch | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ritual Dhāraṇī “The Essence of Dependent Arising” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Teaching on the Indivisible Nature of the Realm of Phenomena | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sūtra on Dependent Arising | 84000 | translated | |
| The Essence of Dependent Arising | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Tathāgata Jñānolka | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Mahāmahīndra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī, the Doubtless | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Accomplishing the Boundless Gateways | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates | 84000 | translated | |
| The King of the Array of All Dharma Qualities | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Agrapradīpa | 84000 | translated | |
| The Great Dhāraṇī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Ten Qualities | 84000 | translated | |
| The Perfection of Wisdom in a Few Syllables | 84000 | translated | |
| The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother | 84000 | translated | |
| The One Hundred and Eight Names of Lord Buddha along with the Dhāraṇī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Essence of Śākyamuni | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “The Essence of Vairocana” | 84000 | translated | |
| Recollecting the Name of Moonlight | 84000 | translated | |
| Recollecting the Common Essence of the Tathāgatas | 84000 | translated | |
| Recollecting the Names of the Buddha Ratnaśikhin | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Cloud of Offerings” | 84000 | translated | |
| Five Dhāraṇīs for Praise and Offerings | 84000 | translated | |
| Toh 539a | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 539b | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 539c | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 539d | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Polished Gem | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Padmanetra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Exposition on the Universal Gateway | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Surūpa” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Freedom from the Eight Great Perils” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī known as "Distinctive" | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | translated |
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| Tibetan Wikipedia | 364 |
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