Tibetan Buddhist translations, scholastic treatises, devotional texts, letters, praises, ritual works, and Dunhuang materials, including a growing set of independent Degé Tengyur translations with complete Tibetan sources.
Folders
Aryadeva — Tibetan-preserved works attributed to Aryadeva, including Madhyamaka treatises and commentarial materials. (8)
Asanga — Tibetan-preserved works attributed to Asanga, especially recollection, devotion, and Mahayana doctrinal texts. (4)
Asvaghosha — Tibetan-preserved Buddhist verse texts attributed to Asvaghosha on impermanence, grief, ethics, and the path. (5)
Atisa — Tibetan-preserved works by Atiśa Dīpaṃkara and texts associated with his ritual, ethical, instructional, and philosophical lineages, including the source-collated D3955 concise path summary. (12)
Candragomin — Works by Candragomin preserved in Tibetan, including letters, drama, reasoning, and bodhisattva discipline. (6)
Central Asian Buddhism and Prophecy — Tibetan-preserved Buddhist prophecies, Khotanese materials, and Central Asian accounts of the Dharma's transmission and decline. (2)
Dharmakirti — Tibetan-preserved works by Dharmakirti on logic, epistemology, relation, and Buddhist praise. (5)
Dharmottara — Tibetan-preserved works by Dharmottara in the Buddhist epistemological tradition. (6)
Dignaga — Tibetan-preserved works by Dignaga on logic, perception, reasoning, Yogacara, and devotional analysis. (7)
Dunhuang Buddhist Texts — Old Tibetan Buddhist texts from Dunhuang, including funerary guides, sermons, prayers, and imperial Buddhist documents. (10)
Logic and Epistemology — Tibetan-preserved Buddhist logic and epistemology texts outside the major author collections. (3)
Madhyamaka and Middle Way — Tibetan-preserved Madhyamaka treatises and related works on emptiness, the two truths, and the middle way. (11)
Maitreya — Yogacara and Mahayana treatises attributed to Maitreya or Maitreyanatha in Tibetan transmission. (4)
Matrceta — Tibetan-preserved hymns and praises by Matrceta, one of the major Indian Buddhist devotional poets. (8)
Nagarjuna — Tibetan-preserved works attributed to Nagarjuna, including Madhyamaka treatises, praises, letters, aspiration prayers, and ritual texts. (42)
Narrative, Jataka, and Exempla — Tibetan-preserved Buddhist narrative literature, Jataka praise, parables, and exemplary stories, now including the independently translated D4341, D4343, and D4344 attainment narratives with their Tibetan sources. (9)
Poetry, Song, and Prayer — Tibetan Buddhist poetry, song, and prayer in source-conscious editions, including Gendun Drub's Gelug praise and four independent Degé Tengyur prayer translations with complete Tibetan sources. (5)
Praise and Devotion — Tibetan-preserved Buddhist hymns, praises, recollections, invitations, and devotional verse. (33)
Ratnakarasanti — Tibetan-preserved works by Ratnakarasanti on Yogacara, Perfection of Wisdom meditation, and epistemology. (3)
Ratnakirti — Tibetan-preserved works by Ratnakirti on Buddhist doctrine, path structure, and tantric praise. (3)
Ritual, Vows, and Practice Manuals — Tibetan-preserved Buddhist ritual manuals, vows, sadhanas, refuge rites, practical liturgies, Kalyāṇavarman's charnel-ground meditation stages, Avadhūtipa's six meditation lessons, a source-complete canonical dhāraṇī, and Kambala's vajra-and-lotus instruction on the perfection of wisdom. (19)
Sakyasribhadra — Tibetan-preserved works by Sakyasribhadra on bodhisattva practice, Mahayana instruction, and devotional recitation. (3)
Shankarananda — Tibetan-preserved works by Shankarananda on Buddhist logic, exclusion, relation, and epistemological reasoning. (3)
Silagupta — Tibetan-preserved epistemological works by Silagupta on testimony, exclusion, and omniscience. (3)
Tantric and Siddha Texts — Tibetan-preserved tantric, siddha, Vajrayana, early Great Perfection, and other esoteric Buddhist works. (6)
Vanaratna — Late Indian Buddhist praises and devotional works by Vanaratna and related Tibetan-preserved materials. (4)
Vasubandhu — Tibetan-preserved works attributed to Vasubandhu on ethics, doctrine, recollection, and Buddhist instruction. (12)
Vinitadeva — Tibetan-preserved commentaries by Vinitadeva on Buddhist epistemology and Dharmakirti-Dignaga reasoning. (3)
Yogacara and Mind-Only — Tibetan-preserved Yogacara, mind-only, meditation, and consciousness-analysis texts. (4)
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Ascertaining Dharmas — Ratnakīrti — A comprehensive philosophical treatise ascertaining the nature of dharmas — from the foundations of faith and wisdom, through ethics, karma, and all four Buddhist philosophical schools, to a spirited defense of luminous consciousness against nihilistic Madhyamaka. First English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D4084).
Jewel Praise of Śabarapāda — Vanaratna — Twenty-four-verse praise of Śabarapāda, one of the eighty-four Mahāsiddhas, by Vanaratna (1384–1468). A name-acrostic on ŚA-BA-RA followed by a systematic reading of every Mahāsiddha ornament as a philosophical truth. First English translation from the Degē Tengyur (D1176).
Praise of Ārya Jambhala — Candra — A devotional prayer to the Buddhist wealth deity Jambhala attributed to the venerable Candra — likely Candrakīrti, the great Mādhyamika philosopher. Nine verses of raw emotional plea: the poet stands before the god with tears streaming down his face, asking why the lord of wealth will not look upon the poor. Translated by Pa Tshab Nyi ma Grags. First English translation from the Tibetan Tengyur (D3748).
Praise of Ārya Jambhala — Jñānavajra — A tantric praise of the Buddhist wealth deity Jambhala composed by the Indian paṇḍita Jñānavajra. Five verses describe the god’s dark blue body, skull cup, treasure-mongoose, and dwarfish wrathful form, culminating in a dedication prayer for all beings to be freed from poverty. First English translation from the Tibetan Tengyur (D3749).
Praise of the Deities of the Four Yogas — Ratnakīrti — A devotional praise of the four objects of Buddhist yogic meditation — the Buddha in samādhi, the bodhisattva and arhat assemblies, the Dharmakāya as Prajñāpāramitā, and the Buddha's body adorned with the thirty-two marks and eighty minor signs. Composed by the great Indian paṇḍita Ratnakīrti, translated into Tibetan by the Nepalese Mahāvana. First English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D1170).
The Discourse Showing the Good Path — Acārya Vīra — A systematic treatise on the Buddhist threefold training by Acarya Vira, translated into Tibetan by Atisa and Rinchen Zangpo. The first complete English translation of this Tengyur text.
The Illuminating Lamp — Śrī Siṃha — A tantric commentary on the Heart Sūtra by Śrī Siṃha, the foundational Dzogchen master, transmitted by Vairocana to King Trisong Detsen. Interprets every phrase of the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya on three levels — outer, inner, and secret — revealing the Heart Sūtra as a teaching on primordial awareness. First English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D4353).
The Trunk of Virtue — Ratnakīrti — A systematic map of the entire Buddhist path — from the sixteen unwholesome acts and their reversals, through the Four Noble Truths, the ten perfections each in three aspects, a survey of all four philosophical schools, to the bodhisattva's nine minds of compassion. By Ratnakīrti of Vikramaśīla, 11th century.
The poem and the D4409, D4402, D4341, D4343, D4344, D4387, D3949, D4450, D4448, D4449, D4457, D3919, D3926, D3955, D4404, D3921, and D4384 translations are narrow doorways, not coverage of all Tibetan literature or Tibetan Buddhism; begin with [[Buddhist/Tibetan/Ritual, Vows, and Practice Manuals/The Stages of Meditation on Ugliness — D3921|Kalyāṇavarman's stages of meditation]], [[Buddhist/Tibetan/Poetry, Song, and Prayer/A Vajra Aspirational Prayer — D4384|the vajra aspiration attributed to Nāgārjuna]], [[Buddhist/Tibetan/Atisa/A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path — D3955|Atiśa's concise path]], or [[Buddhist/Tibetan/Poetry, Song, and Prayer/Verses of Auspiciousness to the Blessed One by Pramudita, Lord of the Gods — D4404|Pramudita's auspicious verses]].