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 Sādhana for Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ten Suchnesses | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “All the Treasures of the Teachings” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual for the Ten Wrathful Ones | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” | 84000 | translated | |
| The Prophecy Concerning Strīvivarta | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on Six-Branched Yoga | 84000 | no translation | |
| Six-Branched Yoga | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual for Mañjuvajra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Rituals for Offering Drinking Water | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual called “Abbreviating the Extensive Wording” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Locana who Purifies Evil Destinies, Extracted from the “Tantra Purifying Evil Destinies” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Final Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Glorious Guhyasamāja, the King of Tantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prophecy of the Girl Candrottarā | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanation of the Introductory Section of the the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tantra, with the Personal Instructions of the Guru | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Mahāsukha | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the “Sādhana of the Glorious Mahāsukha” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Spontaneously Arisen Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Glorious Guhyasamāja, King of Tantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the “Questions of the Four Goddesses” Tantra called “Extensive Personal Instructions” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the “Questions of the Four Goddesses” Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious Guhyasamāja | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious Yamāri Tantra called “Illuminating the Spontaneously Arisen” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious Black Yamāri King of Tantras called “The Jeweled Lamp” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prophecy of Kṣemavatī | 84000 | translated | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Black Yamāri King of Tantras called “The Lamp for the Path of Direct Seeing” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Black Yamāri Tantra called “The Precious Garland” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Black Yamāri Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana for the Maṇḍala of Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Vajra Sarasvatī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Yamāri Maṇḍala Ritual called “The Source of Yamāntaka” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Ritual for Molding a Clay Stūpa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Protection Wheel Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “Black Yamāri” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prophecy of Śrī Mahādevī | 84000 | translated | |
| A Black Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Black Yamāri, together with an Extensive Explanation of the Meanings of Cakra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Yamāri Sādhana called “The Blossoming Kumuda Flower” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Eternal King of Wrathful Ones, Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Realization of Vairocana Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Ratnasaṃbhava Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Rāga Yamāri, The Essence of Amitabha | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Inquiry of Jayamati | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of Vajratīkṣṇa Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajra Carcikā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Yoginī Sādhana of the Vajra Ḍākinī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajra Sarasvatī called “Expanding Bliss” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Karma Vajra Gaurī | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the Offering Ritual to the Venerable Mañjuśrī Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Buddha Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Wrathful Hammer Wielding Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Destroyer, Staff-Bearing Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Avalokinī Sūtra | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Savage Sword-Wielding Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Lotus-Bearing Yamāri Endowed with Bliss and Emptiness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual in the Form of a Black Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A [Stūpa] Ritual Illuminating the Dharmakāya | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Yamāri Cremation Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Food Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Pacification Ritual of Fire Offerings for Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| Binding All Ghosts with Vajras | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of the Clear Realization of Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Drawing the Maṇḍala of Glorious Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Dwelling Place of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana called “Black Yamāri” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Black Yamāri with Three Faces and Six Arms | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sādhana [Causing the Descent] of the Milky Sap | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Maṇḍala of Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sādhana of Pretarāja, the Lord of Death | 84000 | no translation | |
| Offering with the Hand | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Black Yamāri Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Tantric Praise of Yamāri By Vajradhara | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Nectar of Speech | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious Vajrabhairava Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Annotations to the Glorious Vajrabhairava Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| Annotations to the Verses of the Glorious [Great] Vajrabhairava Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the [Great] Vajrabhairava Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the [Great] Vajrabhairava Tantra called “The Precious Garland” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Sādhana of the Buffalo-Faced One | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sādhana of Vajrabhairava With One Face and Two Arms | 84000 | no translation | |
| Condensed Sādhana of Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| Vajrabhairava Approach Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Maitreya’s Setting Out | 84000 | translated | |
| The One Section on Wrathful Activities That Turn the Wheel, From the Ritual Manual of Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajrabhairava Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrabhairava with A Ritual for Engaging in Activities called “The Collection of Beings” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Wheel of Killing of Glorious Great Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Attainment of the Glorious Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Commitment Maṇḍala of the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing the Vajra Words | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Activities of Vajracarcikā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajrabhairava Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajravārāhī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrasarasvatī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Favoring Vajragaurī | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Associated with Activities of Yama | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| Food Offerings to Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Rite of the Musk Shrew | 84000 | translated | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual for the Great Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Prātimokṣa Sūtra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Twenty-Five Gateways to the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | translated | |
| The Sūtra on Concordance with the World | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Offering to the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seven Deeds of Peaceful Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seven Deeds of Wrathful Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Wrathful Action Wheel | 84000 | no translation | |
| Engaging in Associated Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual Teaching on the Marvelous Transformation of Samaya Substances | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Myth Chapter | 84000 | translated | |
| The Correct Meaning of the Hand Implements of the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Great Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Five Suchnesses | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seal of Engagement in Awakening the Power of Faith | 84000 | translated | |
| A Praise of Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of Glorious Vajrabhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Name Mañjuśrībhairava | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrabhairava called “Light of the Vajra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Glorious Vajrabhairava called “Clarity” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing the Vajra Meaning of the Root Mantra of Glorious Yamāntaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Sādhana of Six-Faced Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Sādhana for the Attainment of Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Red Yamāntaka Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Red Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Blessings of the Glorious Red Yamāri called “The Stages of the Dawning of the Clear Light” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Evaluating Whether Progress is Certain or Uncertain | 84000 | translated | |
| Personal Instructions on Suchness Utterly Free of Elaborations | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Ritual of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Garland of Yamāri Yantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Glorious Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instruction on Self-Empowerment called “The Suchness of the Four Yogas” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Red Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual to the Maṇḍala of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Offering Ritual for Red and Black Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Samādhi Ritual for Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seal of Dharma | 84000 | translated | |
| A Torma Cake Offering for Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Red Yamāri Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Realization of Red Yamāntaka, together with Personal Instructions on the Stages of Self-Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Yantra of Red Yamāntaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Suchness of the Red Yamāri Yantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Completion Stage Yoga of Red Yamāntaka | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions called “The Sustaining Suchness of Red Yamāri” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Consecration of Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Blessings of the Goddess Prabhādharā | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Offering Lamps | 84000 | translated | |
| A Prabhādharā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Transference of One’s Own Conciousness to Higher States | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Consecration for Consciousness Transference | 84000 | no translation | |
| Offerings to the God Agni | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Consecration of Elixir | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Consecrating a Protection Wheel and Repelling [Interfering Spirits] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of Red Yamāri Mantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Garland of Activities of Red Yamāri called “The Wish-fulfilling Jewel” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Precious Garland | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Nāgī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The City Beggar Woman | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Dog-Faced Nāgī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Summoning a Nāgī By Reciting “Aphūḥ” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣiṇī Ratipriyā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣa Naḍanaḍī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣiṇī Pārthivī Lakṣmī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣa Nandikara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣa King Kīlikīla | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Destroyer Yakṣa Senāpati | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Candradevī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Dhāraṇī Practice for the Apacāra Kārītī Kuṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| Pure Sustenance of Food | 84000 | translated | |
| A Manoharī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Subhagā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Viśālanetrī Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ratirāgā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Aparājitā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Adhijayājitā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Pūrṇabhadrā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Bhūtī Sundarī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Śrījaya Sundarī | 84000 | no translation |
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|---|---|
| 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 |