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 Summary of the Benefits of the Dhāraṇī of Avalokitśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Practice Manual of Tārā of the Upswept Tresses | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Subsequent Tantra of Tārā of the Upswept Tresses | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī “The Mother of Avalokiteśvara” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra on the Origin of All Rites of Tārā, Mother of All the Tathāgatas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Hundred and Eight Names of Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Hundred and Eight Names of the Goddess Tārā | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Tārā | 84000 | translated | |
| King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Tārā’s Own Promise” | 84000 | translated | |
| Tārā Who Protects from the Eight Dangers | 84000 | translated | |
| The Yaśovatī Dhāraṇī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Avalokiteśvara Hayagrīva | 84000 | no translation | |
| Pratyaṅgirā, The Noble Conquerer | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of Parṇaśabarī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Parṇaśavarī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Pratyaṅgirā, the Powerful | 84000 | no translation | |
| In Praise of the Glorious Goddess Sarasvatī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Prophecy of Śrī Mahādevī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Inquiry of the Girl Sumati | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sūtra of Mahāśrī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Twelve Names of the Goddess Śrī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Spell for Attaining the Supreme | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Purifying All Karmic Obscurations” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Tantra of Vajrapātāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Hundred and Eight Names of Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Tantra of Supreme Knowledge | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Bhūtaḍāmara Tantra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “The Ritual of the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Eight Names of Vajrapāṇi Along with the Mantra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Questions of Gaṅgottarā | 84000 | translated | |
| Vajra Conqueror | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī, The Palace on the Peak of the Great Vajra Meru | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Vajrājita, who is Bewildering Like Fire | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī, Unimpeded Minute Vajras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Heart Mantra of the Ten Vajra-Wielders | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī, The Fourfold Essence of Kuṇḍalyamṛta | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Mantra Praising the Wrathful King Bhurkuṃkūṭa | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of Great Strength | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Practice of the Tantra of Vajraśṛṅkhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Vow of the Nāga Vajratuṇḍa | 84000 | no translation | |
| Aśokadattā’s Prophecy | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Vajralohatuṇḍa | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [1] | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [2] | 84000 | translated | |
| Black Lohatuṇḍa | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Māṇibhadra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Practice of the Yakṣa Maṇibhadra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Practice of the Sublime Dancer, Chief of the Army of Yakṣas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Tantra of the Supreme Dancer of the Yakṣas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Jambhalaśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Compassionate Noble Jambhala, Lord of the Waters, Called “Peacemaker” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sūtra of Vimaladatta's Questions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Extant Practice of Jambhalajalendra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Hundred and Eight Names of Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Mekhalā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Mahāśvāsa, King of Spells | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Polished Gem | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Circumambulation | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Circumambulation of the Three Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| Purifying the Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Purifying the Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Homage | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Questions of Guṇaratnasaṅkusumita | 84000 | translated | |
| Dhāraṇī for Acquiring a Hundred Garments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Making People Joyful | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for the Purification of All Evil Destinies | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Assuaging Tumors | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Clearing Up Digestive Disorders | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Calming Hatred | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Calming Sin | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Calming Wrath | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Calming the Enraged | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Forceful Words | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching on the Inconceivable Scope of a Buddha | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Self-Protection | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Attractiveness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for a Pleasant Voice | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Accomplishing Goals | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Accomplishing Actions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī that Assuages Poison | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Release from Bondage | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Intimidating Demons | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Treating Wounds | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī that Assuages the Pain of Burns | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ultimate Section on Vinaya | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sūtra of the Devaputra Susthitamati's Questions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Mantra that Dispels Bile Diseases | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī that Dispels Phlegm Diseases | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī that Dispels Phthisis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī for being Invulnerable to Infectious Fevers and Vermin | 84000 | no translation | |
| Dhāraṇīs for Giving Bodily Excretions as Charity | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Subāhu’s Questions | 84000 | translated | |
| Tantra of the Procedures Common to All Maṇḍalas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Section on Propitiation Rituals [in the Great Tantra, Susiddhikara] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Section on the Higher States of Meditative Absorption | 84000 | no translation | |
| The King of Dedications, the Teaching on Skillfulness in the Great Jewel | 84000 | no translation | |
| Siṃha’s Questions | 84000 | translated | |
| The King of Dedications | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Prayer from the Great Susiddhikaratantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prayer from the Practice of Avalokiteśvara that is like the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm” | 84000 | translated | |
| A Prayer and Statement of Truth from The Great Peahen, Queen of Dhāraṇīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Prayer from The Series of Gifts | 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 Good Fortune | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Well-wishing | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses of Auspiciousness for the Questions of the God | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Chapter of the Bodhisattva Jñānottara's Questions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses of Auspiciousness for the Thirty-Seven Deities | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Verses of Auspiciousness for the Seven Successive Past Buddhas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness for the Five Tathāgatas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Auspiciousness of the Three Families [1] | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness of the Three Jewels [1] | 84000 | translated | |
| The Auspiciousness of the Three Families [2] | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness | 84000 | translated | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness of the Three Jewels [2] | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sovereign, All-Creating Mind of Enlightenment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of All-Gathering Awareness (or The Sūtra that Gathers All Intentions) | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant | 84000 | translated | |
| The Lightning Wheel of Magnificent Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of All-Embracing Awareness | 84000 | translated | |
| The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real [the 22 chapter Guhyagarbha tantra] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Magical Net of Vajrasattva, the Mirror of All Secrets | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real [the "80 chapter" Guhyagarbha tantra] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Noble Lasso of Methods, the Lotus Garland | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of the Great Magical Net of the Goddess | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Guru, from The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Secret Tantra of the Wheel of Mañjuśrī's Four Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Tantra of Aśvottama's Display | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Questions of the Girl Vimalaśraddhā | 84000 | translated | |
| The Most Profound Secret Tantra of Śrī Heruka's Compassionate Display | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 841 | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fragment from the Vajrakīlaya Root Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Tantra of the Flaming Ḍākinī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Root Tantra of Vajramantrabhīru | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Tantra of Lokastotrapūja | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Kālacakra Commentary, 'Stainless Light' | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Threefold Invocation Ritual | 84000 | translated | |
| The Threefold Ritual | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Tathāgata Jñānolka | 84000 | translated | |
| The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (1) | 84000 | translated | |
| The Question of Maitreya (1) | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī Praising the Qualities of the Immeasurable One | 84000 | translated | |
| The Seven Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Twelve 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 Endowed with the Attributes of All the Buddhas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī, the Sandalwood Branch | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Agrapradīpa | 84000 | translated | |
| The Initiating Dhāraṇī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Question of Maitreya (2) on the Eight Qualities | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Essence of Śākyamuni | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “The Essence of Vairocana” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Essence Dhāraṇī of the Tathāgata Bhaiṣajyaguru | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Bodhisattva Supreme Conqueror | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of Amitābha | 84000 | no translation | |
| [Untitled Dhāraṇī of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas] | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Padmanetra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Calling Amitābha to Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| Recollecting the Name of Moonlight | 84000 | translated | |
| Recollecting the Common Essence of the Tathāgatas | 84000 | translated | |
| The Discourse for Kāśyapa | 84000 | no translation | |
| Recollecting the Names of the Buddha Ratnaśikhin | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Immaculate” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī known as "Distinctive" | 84000 | no translation | |
| The One Hundred and Eight Names of Lord Buddha along with the Dhāraṇī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The One Hundred and Eight Names of Noble Avalokiteśvara, Together with his Dhāraṇī Mantra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Maitreya | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Khagarbha [Ākāśagarbha] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Samantabhadra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| One Hundred and Eight Names of Youthful Mañjuśrī Accompanied by His Dhāraṇī-Mantra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Mass of Jewels | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī-mantra of the One Hundred and Eight Names of Kṣitigarbha | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Maṇḍala of Eight | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī for Secret Relics | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Sovereign Practice of the Supreme Secret Found Especially in the Great Jewel Palace | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Heap of Flowers” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Mahāmahīndra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Dhāraṇī | 84000 | translated | |
| Essence of Sukhāvatī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Akṣayamati’s Questions | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī “Maitreya’s Pledge” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin | 84000 | translated | |
| Spoken by Mañjuśrī Himself | 84000 | translated | |
| Mañjuśrī’s Sworn Oath | 84000 | translated | |
| The Epithets of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | translated | |
| The Noble Lord Mañjuśrī’s Dḥāraṇī for Increasing Insight and Intelligence | 84000 | translated | |
| The Procedure for Mañjuśrī’s Single-Syllable Mantra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dhāraṇī of Avalokiteśvara Cintāmaṇicakra | 84000 | translated | |
| The Dhāraṇī of the Eleven Faced Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines | 84000 | translated |
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| Source | Texts |
|---|---|
| Buddhist Digital Resource Center — eText collection | 11,997 |
| 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 |