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 View Free of the Duality of Suffering and Bliss | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of the Unconnected | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of Non-Adherence | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of the King of the True Dharma | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of Emptiness and Compassion | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of the Jewel of the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of the Eight Suchnesses | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of Conquering the Conceptions of the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of [Eliminating] Sorrow | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of Mind-Only | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Kapālika View on the Activities of Compassion | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of the Unconnected | 84000 | no translation | |
| The View of Suchness | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sign Lineage of the Great Seal | 84000 | no translation | |
| Proper Dharma Conduct | 84000 | translated | |
| The Song of the Secret Vajra, Personal Instructions on the Great Seal | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Song of the Glorious Vajraḍākinī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Symbolic Song of Vajraḍākinī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Singing a Song of the Secret of the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| Tales of the Realizations of the Fifty Siddhas called “The Garland of Radiant Drops” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on the Symbolism of the Precious Great Seal | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Song of the Secret Vajra Ḍākiṇī | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice on the Important Points of Kamalaśīla by the Great Hunter | 84000 | no translation | |
| Singing a Song Symbolic of the Profound Meaning, the Secret of the Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Experience Singing a Vajra Song by the Forty Siddha-Yogis at the Time of Turning the Wheel of Accumulation in Glorious Uḍḍiyāna, called “The Garland of Golden Drops” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sections of Dharma | 84000 | translated | |
| Tales of the Realizations of the Thirty-Five Wisdom Ḍākiṇīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| Rhythmic Songs of the Ḍākiṇīs | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Cycle of Empowerments for the Precious Great Seal | 84000 | no translation | |
| Vajra Songs of Attainment called “Illuminating the Suchness of All Yogis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Golden Rosary of the Great Seal | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Letter on Wisdom | 84000 | no translation | |
| Clearing Away the Obstructions to a Yogi’s Realization | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Hidden Path of the Five Poisons called “The Inconceivable Supreme Secret” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The True Characteristics of Yoga | 84000 | no translation | |
| Advice on the Time for Commencing the Wisdom Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Victory of the Ultimate Dharma | 84000 | translated | |
| A Monograph on the Collection of Samādhis | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of the Seven Branches of Transcendence | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Teachings of the Sugatas called “The Precious Ship” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Treatise on Liberation from Bondage | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Utterly Pure View and Deeds | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Path and Result Which Purifies the Precious Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Liberation from Bondage | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ascertaining the True Path Leading to the Attainments | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on a Yogi’s Liberation from the Restraints of Their Own Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| Differentiating the Path of the Seven Glorious Yogas | 84000 | no translation | |
| Distinguishing Phenomena and What Is Meaningful | 84000 | translated | |
| The Samādhi Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Further Empowerments To Be Done | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the Personal Instructions on the Jewel and Wheel Empowerments | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on the Stage of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Abbreviated Stages of Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Ascertaining the Actual Meaning of the Fourth Empowerment | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Etymological Discussion of “Empowerment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Etymological Discussion of the Meaning of “Empowerment” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Concise Presentation of Root Transgressions of the Vajra Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| Gross Transgressions | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimokṣa | 84000 | translated | |
| Fifteen Transgressions | 84000 | no translation | |
| Seven Branch Faults | 84000 | no translation | |
| Gross Transgressions of the Vajra Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| Branch Commitments | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Fruit Cluster of Vajra Vehicle Transgressions | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Fourteen Root Transgressions of the Vajra Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on the Root Transgressions of the Vajra Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on Root Transgressions | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Root Transgressions of the Vajra Vehicle | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajrasattva Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra Teaching the Four Factors | 84000 | translated | |
| An Ornament for the Essence of the General Ritual of All Secrets | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Feast Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Feast Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Feast Offerings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Feast Offerings called “The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Feast Offerings called “Revealing the Stages” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Consecrations of Exalted Body, Speech, and Mind | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Consecration of Parasols etc. and the Disposal of Old Ones | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Earth, Wood, and Stone | 84000 | no translation | |
| Ten Ritual Actvities called “The Golden Garland” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The One Hundred and Eight Names of the Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | translated | |
| The Four Factors | 84000 | translated | |
| A Treatise on Desire | 84000 | no translation | |
| Entering Into the Meaning of Tantra | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanatory Commentary on [Buddhaguhya’s] “Entering Into the Meaning of Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Compendium of Suchness Tantra, called “The Ornament of Kosala” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Arrangement of Deities in the Vajradhātu Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Exposition on the Lines of a Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the “Concise Exposition on the Lines of a Maṇḍala” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Performing the Difficult Parts of the Ritual of Drawing the Lines of a Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Lines of a Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Noble “Victory Over the Three Worlds Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Four Factors | 84000 | translated | |
| An Explanation of the Tantra called “The Compendium of the Suchness of All the Tathāgatas, The Clear Realization of the Great Vehicle,” called “Illuminating Suchness” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Glorious Tantra “The Supreme” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the Glorious Tantra “The Supreme” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of the King of Tantras called “The Net of Magical Illusions” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the King of Tantras called “The Net of Magical Illusions” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Glorious “Ornament for the Vajra Essence Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for the Great Vajradhātu Maṇḍala called “The Source of All Vajras” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Source of Vajrasattva” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Vajrasattva Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Glorious “Victory Over the Three Worlds Tantra,” A Condensation of the Noble “Compendium of Suchness Tantra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Fourfold Accomplishment | 84000 | translated | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Glorious Tantra “The Supreme” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Opening the Eyes [of a Statue] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Opening the Eyes [of a Statue] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Meditation and Recitation called “The Source of Compassion” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual called “The Finest Extensive Offerings” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual called “Samantabhadra” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual called “The King of Consecrations” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Concise Meaning of “The Source of All Vajras,” A Vajradhātu Maṇḍala Ritual | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Three Qualities | 84000 | translated | |
| The Concise Meaning of Meditating on the Meaning of the Vajradhātu Maṇḍala | 84000 | no translation | |
| Compendium of Activities | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Commentary on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “Perceiving the Meaning of Name-Mantras” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Extensive Explanation of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “Clarifying the Meaning of the Words” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Explanation of the Terms in “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary of Personal Instructions on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra of Dharmaketu | 84000 | translated | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summarized Commentary on the Difficult Points of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “The Stainless Sky” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “[The Recitation of the Names of] the Noble Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Purification Ritual according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Water Offering [Ritual] according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Ocean of Dharma | 84000 | translated | |
| The Yoga of Food according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Torma Cake Ritual for Offerings to Elemental Spirits according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the Maṇḍala Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Practice of Circumambulation according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Method for Amassing the Accumulations by means of the Seven Branches according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Chanting “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Dedicating the Roots of Virtue according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Meditating on Impermanence according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Recoiling from Impermanent Samsāra according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Understanding “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” and Turning Away from the Three Poisons | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Seal of the Dharma | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Taking Refuge | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Generating Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Cultivating Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Cultivating the Four Immeasurables | 84000 | no translation | |
| Gazing Upon the Buddhas of the Three Times | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Cultivating the Six Mindfulnesses according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Personal Instructions on Meditating Upon the Twelve Links of Dependent Arising from the Perspective of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Cultivating Suchness By Means of the Supreme Faculty | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Making a Mahābodhi Reliquary according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Summary of the Fire Offering Ritual according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Quintessence of the Sun | 84000 | translated | |
| Personal Instructions on the Stages of Meditative Equipoise | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of the Solitary Hero form of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” Integrating the Scriptures | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Opening the Eyes [of a Statue] according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Killing with a Circle of Black Magic Curses according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual for the Purification of Ethical Transgressions according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Fire Offering Ritual for the Purification of Ethical Transgressions according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of the Six Transmigrators, Purifying Bad Transmigrations | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Teaching on the Twelve Meanings of Cultivating Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūtra on the Tathāgata Essence | 84000 | no translation | |
| Meditation Instructions for Reading “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| An Arrangement of the Fire Offering according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Recitation of the Names of the Noble Mañjuśrī called “The Source of Good Qualities” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual according to “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Running Commentary on the Sādhana in the “Endowed with Secrecy” Tradition for “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “Clear Gnosis” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual for Drawing the Lines of a Maṇḍala according to the “Endowed with Secrecy” Tradition Sādhana | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Consecration Ritual for Opening the Eyes [of a Statue] | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of Precious “Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Heart of the Gnosis of the Dharmadhātu Utterly Pure Like the Stainless Sky | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Basket Without Words, The Illuminator’s Matrix | 84000 | translated | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of the Arisal of Mañjuvajra called “Generating the Bliss of All Sentient Beings” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Cultivation of Bodhicitta | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” Integrating the Scriptures | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Endowed with Secrecy” Tradition called “The Lamp of the Concise Meaning” | 84000 | no translation | |
| Notes on the “Endowed with Secrecy” Teachings | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “The Lamp of Secrets” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Arrangement of the Circles of Mantras of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” called “The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| The Sūryagarbha Perfection of Wisdom | 84000 | translated | |
| The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra | 84000 | translated | |
| A Sādhana of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Maṇḍala Ritual of “The Recitation of the Names of Mañjuśrī” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Sādhana called “The Suchness of the Noble Jñānasattva Mañjuśri” | 84000 | no translation | |
| A Concise Fire Offering Ritual | 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 |