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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Arrangement of the Offering Ritual for Pīṭhīśvarī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Verses of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary of Personal Instructions on the “Verses of Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Tārā, Goddess of the Great Places | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Pīṭhīśvarī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Unique Characteristics of the Vajra and Bell | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ritual for Offering a Skull-cup | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Question of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Tārā of Dreams | 84000 | no translation | |
| Death Practices | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Praise of Vajravārāhī Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Root Mantra of Wrathful Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Wrathful Goddess Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Wrathful Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Wrathful Ārya Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ekajaṭī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Questions on Selflessness | 84000 | translated | |
| Torma Cake Offerings for Wrathful Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Enhancing the Mind with Ekajaṭī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of White Ekajaṭī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Red Ekajaṭī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Blessing Ritual for Red Ekajaṭī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Personal Instructions on Ekajaṭī, the Supreme Form of Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sādhana of the Five Deity Tāra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sādhana of the Compassionate Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Inner Torma Cake Offerings to Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Protection Wheel | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Inquiry of Lokadhara | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of Secret Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Various Practices Associated with the Compassionate Tārā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Crow-faced Kālī Bearing a Scale | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Tārā called “The Clear Mirror” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Manual for Charnal Grounds, The Natural Realm of Enjoyment of the Yogīs and Yoginīs of Oḍḍiyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Entering into the Yoga of Suchness by Combining it with Desire | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Discerning Action Mudrās | 84000 | no translation | |
| On the Dharma Empowerment, the Contingent Foundation, and its Positive and Negative [Ascertainment] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Averting Death | 84000 | no translation | |
| Analyzing Dreams | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching of Akṣayamati | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana Taken from the “Web of Lotuses Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Maṇḍala Offerings to the Bhagavan According to the “Web of Lotuses” Avalokiteśvara Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the Sādhana for the Glorious Protector Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Great Charnel Grounds Section of Fierce Activities from the Glorious Mahākāla Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual called “The Blazing Fire of Gnosis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clear Realization of Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Sādhana of Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Mahākāla with Consort | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching of Vimalakīrti | 84000 | translated | |
| An Inner Sādhana of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Consecrated Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Empowerment Ritual for the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| Torma Cake Offerings to the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Ritual for the Goddess Kālī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Glorious Goddess Pārvatī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Permission Ritual [for Vetālī] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vetālī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Mañjuśrī’s Teaching | 84000 | translated | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Mahākāla Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Mahākāla in Eight Verses | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Venerable Mahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| Eight Verses Praising Śrīdevī Mahākālī | 84000 | translated | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Mahākāla in Eight Verses | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Mahākāla in Eight Verses | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment | 84000 | translated | |
| An Eight Verse Praise of Vajramahākāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Goddess Mahākālī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Realization of Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Joyous Expression of the Clear Realization of Acala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Eighteenth Chapter [of the Guhyasamāja Tantra] | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary called “The Brightening Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Extensive Commentary on [Nāgārjuna's] “Six-Branched Yoga” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Commentary on the Lamp of All Secrets | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of Vajra Recitation | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Seven Ornament System Extracted from the Vajra-Wisdom Compendium Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points called “Clarifying [Candrakīrti's] ‘Brightening Lamp’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Topical Outline to [Candrakīrti's] “Brightening Lamp” called “The Mirror Revealing the Essence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary Summarizing the Difficult Points of [Candrakīrti's] “Brightening Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary called “Illuminating the Intent of [Candrakīrti's] ‘Brightening Lamp’” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Candrakīrti's] “Brightening Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Mahāyoga Tantra, The Glorious Vajra Rosary called “A Commentary on the Profound Meaning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Cultivating the Generation Stage of the Mahāyoga Tantra, the Glorious Guhyasamāja, called “Integrating the Sūtras” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Analysis of the Four Empowerments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Illustrious Perfection of Wisdom in Fifty Lines | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching How All Phenomena Are without Origin | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Five Stages | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp for Integrating the Practices | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Purifying the Obstructions in the Mind” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Stages of Self-Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Stages of Manifest Enlightenment | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Cremation Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Bringing the Perfection Stage of the Glorious Secret Assembly Tantra to Completion | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sequential Arrangement of the Samāja Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching the Five Perfections | 84000 | translated | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Glorious Guhyasamāja called “The Twenty Rituals” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing Final Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition called “Concise Personal Instructions on the Middle Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Annotations to [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” called “Delighting the Minds of Yogis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajrasattva Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the “Vajrasattva Sādhana” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Circle of Elixir Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ornament Commentary for the Clear Realization of Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Empowerment Procedure called “Clear Union” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Perfection of Generosity | 84000 | translated | |
| An Offering Ritual for Vajrasattva | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Method for Consecration | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Stages of the Path to Great Vajradhara called “The Secret Elixir” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual of the Mahāyoga Tantra, the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “Concise Sādhana” called “The Precious Garland” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering into the Practices of the Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Bodies of the Deities in the Glorious Guhyasamāja Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Commentary on Bodhicitta” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching the Benefits of Generosity | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” called “Clarifying the Meaning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Intention of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” called “Lightrays of the Moon” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Concise Sādhana” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarifying the Meaning of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on [Āryadeva’s] “Lamp for Integrating the Practices” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Vajrasattva Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Concise Sādhana” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise called “Proclaiming Faith” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching the Practice of a Bodhisattva | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanation of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” called “The Garland of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Meaning of the Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “Five Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra called “Settling the Personal Instructions” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Essential Drop from the Ocean of Personal Instructions on the the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Guhyasamāja Tantra called “The Tree of Jewels” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ornament for the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Eighteenth Chapter [of the Guhyasamāja Tantra] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Introduction to the Domain of the Inconceivable Qualities and Wisdom of the Tathāgatas | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanation of the Guhyasamājottara Tantra called “Bestowing Correct Knowledge” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Explanations Connected to the Guhyasamāja Tantra called “A Handful of Flowers” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the King of Tantras, the Guhyasamāja, called “Lightrays of the Moon” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Oral Tradition [of Mañjuśrī] called “Cultivating Suchness on the Two Stages [of Guhyasamāja]” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Oral Tradition [of Mañjuśrī] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Samantabhadra Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Four-Branched Practice called “Samantabhadrā” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Glorious Heruka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Sādhana of Glorious Heruka” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Drop of Liberation | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching on the Extraordinary Transformation That Is the Miracle of Attaining the Buddha’s Powers | 84000 | translated | |
| Engaging in the Practices of Self-attainment | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Venerable Jambhalajalendra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Secret Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Abundant Jambhala | 84000 | no translation | |
| Classification of the Different Stances | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on [Buddhaśrījñānapāda’s] “Oral Tradition [of Mañjuśrī], Cultivating Suchness on the Two Stages [of Guhyasamāja]” called “A Beautiful Flower” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Samantabhadra Sādhana” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Glorious “Samantabhadra Sādhana” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on [Buddhaśrījñānapāda’s] “Sādhana of the Four-Branched Practice” called “The Bouquet of the Essence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teaching on the Inconceivable Properties of the Buddhas | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of [Buddhaśrījñānapāda’s] “Drop of Liberation” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the “Maṇḍala Ritual for the Glorious Guhyasamāja” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Samantabhadra Sādhana with the Four Branches | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Sādhana of the Glorious Guhyasamāja Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Guhyasamāja called “The Treasury of the Source of Siddhis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Four Empowerments called “The Seven Yogas” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Great Torma Cake Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ratnāmati Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Yogic Activities called “The Attainment of One’s Own Goals” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Appearance of the Six-Branched Yoga | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prophecy of Dīpaṅkara | 84000 | translated | |
| A Mañjuśrī Sādhana for Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Clear Realization of the Glorious Guhyasamāja” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Beautiful Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Akṣobhyavajra Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Quick and Easy Sādhana for the Realization of the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Abbreviated Empowerment for Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seven Branches | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Precious Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prediction for Brahmaśrī | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanation of “Illuminating the Precious Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Exceptionally Clear” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Guhyasamāja Lokeśvara | 84000 | no translation |
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| Tibetan Wikipedia | 364 |
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| Lotsawa House — Tibetan originals (/bo/) | 64 |
| VOA / RFA Tibetan news | 29 |
| OTDO — Old Tibetan Documents Online | 29 |