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 of Vimala Sundarī | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Strength of the Elephant | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Piśāca Pīlupaya | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Piśāca Maṇidhara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Black Piśāca Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Black Piśāca Sāra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Piśācī Hanā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Aluk | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Alagupta | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Donkey-Faced Piśācī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Piśācī Ālumbinī | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Ucchuṣmā Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Great Rumble | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Sneezing Piśāca Kuṇḍalī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Piśācī Karṇagṛhyā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Piśācī Kṛṣṇamukhī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Garland of Wish-fulfilling Jewels of Yamāri” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Red Yamāri | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Consecration of the Body, Speech, and Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| Settling in Meditative Equipoise in the Samādhi of the Three Beings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Black Yamāyuṣpati | 84000 | no translation | |
| Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Bathing Ritual, Purifying Defilements and Eliminating Interruptions | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of Black Yamāyuṣpati | 84000 | no translation | |
| Proclaiming the Lion’s Roar | 84000 | translated | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “The Three Clear Methods” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “The Lamp Illuminating the Meaning of the Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarifying the Meaning of “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Specific Debates Summarizing “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of Both a Consideration and Specific Debates Regarding the Meaning of the Mañjuśrī Mantra called “A Lamp for the Names” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Clear Realization of the Jñānasattva, Ārya Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Perfect Ritual for the Mudrās of the Jñānasattva Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “The Clear Realization of the Essence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ten Verses on Activites of Naturally Abiding in Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother | 84000 | translated | |
| The Rice Seedling | 84000 | translated | |
| An Investigation of Dreams | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Lamp for Clearing Away the Defilements in Regard to the Concentration of a Buddha’s Enlightenment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Circle of Concentration for Entering into the Mind of the Jñānasattva Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Attainment of the Essential Drop | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Single Essential Drop | 84000 | no translation | |
| Attainment of the Essence of the Jñānasattva Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of [Maitrīpa’s] Personal Instructions | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive and Profound Commentary on Ārya Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of of “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Wrathful Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising | 84000 | translated | |
| A Mañjuśrī Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice on Going for Refuge, Generating Bodhicitta, and the Four Empowerments | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions as Vajra Song | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Purification Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Torma Cake Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Consecrating a Corpse | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Cremation Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Making Clay Images | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on Dependent Arising | 84000 | translated | |
| Personal Instructions on the Sādhana for Attaining Mundane Siddhis | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for [Offering] a Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Circles of the Maṇḍala of the Bhagavatī Ekajaṭā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Bhagavatī Ekajaṭā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Bhagavatī Ekajaṭā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Bhagavatī Ekajaṭā | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Ekajaṭā | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Jeweled Lamp of Dedication | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Glorious Bhagavatī Ekajaṭā | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Resting in One’s Own Mind called "Twenty-Five Verses" | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra for the Benefit of Aṅgulimāla | 84000 | no translation | |
| Thirty Verses Proclaiming Realization | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Khasarpaṇi with Consort | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Yakṣa Dvayabhrātī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Illuminating the Sādhana of Kulalokanātha | 84000 | no translation | |
| Annotations to the “Fifty Verses on Kulalokanātha” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Blessing and Permission of the Kulalokanātha | 84000 | no translation | |
| Toh 2136 | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Kulalokeśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Seven Syllables of Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Exposition of the Personal Instructions on the Empowerment of Mahākāruṇika | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice to a King (1) | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Secret of Ārya Avalokiteśvara | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of Aparimitāyurjñāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Hayagrīva Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Aparimitāyurjñāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offerings for Aparimitāyus | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Aparimitāyurjñāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of Aparimitāyurjñāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Tantra of Vajrapāṇi's Triple Dreadful Training” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Entourage of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Dhāraṇī Sādhana of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi called “The Drop of Elixir” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice to a King (2) | 84000 | translated | |
| A Concise Sādhana of Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana for the Four Classes of Nāgas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “Overcoming and Dispelling the Lord of the Yakṣas” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana for Overcoming and Dispelling Ghosts, Piśācas, Kuṃbhāṇḍas, and Pūtanas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Torma Cake Offerings and Dhāraṇīs for Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Six Stages | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Restorative Elixir for Killing | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Offering of the Elixir of Milk | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Action of Killing Wrathful Nāgas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Suppressing the Four Classes of Nāgas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse | 84000 | translated | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offerings for Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offerings for Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Characteristics of Leprosy | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Praise of the Collection of Deities of the Great Entourage of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Protection of Dependent Arising | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Tantra of the Flame of the Vajra, The Great Fierce Yakṣa, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Blue-Clad Ārya Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Śrīgupta Sūtra | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions In Relation to Scripture | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sequence of Rituals of the Collection of Tantric Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Large Collection of Rituals Related to the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Torma Cake Offerings to the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Food Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual for Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Purification of Karmic Obscurations | 84000 | translated | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual for Wrathful Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| Fire Offering Ritual Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Fire Offering for the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Collection of Maṇḍalas | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Stages of Activity called “The Garland of Pearls” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Dhāraṇī of the Vajra Flame” called “The Garland of Pearls” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Secret Practices Given in “The Dhāraṇī of the Vajra Flame” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Method of Enacting “The [Vajra] Flame” and Protection Through the Power of Dependent Arising | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Eight Observances of Yoga, The Preliminary Practices for “The Vajrapāṇi Flame” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Secret Lord, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| Putting an End to Karmic Obscurations | 84000 | translated | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual called “The Five Deities of the Vajrakhroda Caṇḍa” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Eight Branched Path of Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Great Lord of Yakṣas, the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi and the Garuda | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Glorious Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Suppression and Severing By Means of a Knowledge Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Fire Offering to the Glorious Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Ritual for Torma Cake Offerings to a Nāga | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajrakhroda Caṇḍa | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of Vajragaruda | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual to Vajra Caṇḍa called “Concise Excellence” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Perfection of Wisdom in a Few Syllables | 84000 | translated | |
| The Buddha’s Collected Teachings Repudiating Those Who Violate the Discipline | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanation of the Noble Tantra “The Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of All Ritual Manuals called "The Lamp" | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the “Tantra of the Blue-Clad” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the “Tantra of the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Lamp of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Perfection of All Maṇḍala Rituals of the Noble Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ornament for Mantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ornament for Consecration | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ornament for Torma Cakes | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ornament for Commitments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of Advice to the King | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Noble Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the “Ornament for Mantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the “Ornament for Commitments” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the “Sādhana of the Noble Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the “Sādhana of the Noble Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Lamp of Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the “Lamp of Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| “The Attainment of the Glorious Secret Assembly,” Inducing the Definitive Meaning of All the Tantras | 84000 | no translation | |
| Attaining Firm Resolve Regarding Wisdom and Method | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Attainment of Gnosis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the Chapter on [Tib:] the Great Drum [Skt:] the Bearer of the Great Drum | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana Establishing Non-duality | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Suchness, the Great Secret of Secrets Coming from Glorious Uḍḍiyāna | 84000 | no translation | |
| Attainment of the Suchness that Arises from the Clear Manifestation [of the Deity] | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Spontaneously Arisen Attainment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Treasury of Dohā Songs | 84000 | no translation | |
| Establishing the Sequence of the Four Mudrās | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarifying [The Difference Between] Wisdom and Gnosis | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Compendium of Established Tenets | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions of the [Perfection] Stage of Inconceivable [Nonduality] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clearing Away Bad Views | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Chapter on the Heaven of the Thirty-Three | 84000 | translated | |
| The Six Verses on the Middle Way | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of “Clearing Away Bad Views” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Six Verses on the Spontaneously Arisen | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on [Phenomena Being Like A] Dream | 84000 | no translation | |
| Teaching on [Phenomena Being Like] An Illusion | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarifying the Meaning of a Non-Abiding [Consciousness] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ten Verses on Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarifying the Meaning of Union | 84000 | no translation | |
| Five Verses on Love | 84000 | no translation | |
| Five Verses on Penetrating Insight | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clarifying the Meaning of Great Bliss | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Episode of Dṛḍhādhyāśaya | 84000 | translated | |
| Precious Garland of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Elucidation of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Seals of the Five Tathāgatas | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Purpose of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Activities of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Nature of the Five [Buddha Families] | 84000 | no translation | |
| Five Verses on Wisdom, Method, and Love | 84000 | no translation |
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| 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 |