This shelf gathers Bon and Old Tibetan frontier texts from the early Tibetan world: Dunhuang manuscripts, ritual narratives, divination manuals, funeral texts, myths, legal documents, contracts, royal inscriptions, and imperial Buddhist charters.

The name Bon should be read as a shelf boundary rather than a claim that every text here is a Bon scripture. Some works are Bon ritual or mythic materials. Others are Old Tibetan legal, diplomatic, or Buddhist imperial documents that preserve the same historical world in which Bon, Gshen, ancestral ritual, royal cult, and early Buddhism were negotiating place and authority.

Read the shelf as a primary-source archive for early Tibetan religion and statecraft. It is especially useful for seeing what Tibet looked like before the later Tibetan Buddhist canon became the main lens.

Begin with Bon/Reader's Guide to Bon and Old Tibetan Traditions for a guided path through the shelf.