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Together with the 108-volume Kangyur (the Collection of the Words of the Buddha), these form the basis of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. "The Kangyur usually takes up a hundred or a hundred and eight volumes, the Tengyur two hundred and twenty-five, and the two together contain 4,569 works." [2] [3] As example, the content of the Beijing Tengyur: [4]
The first English translation from the Large sutras was by Edward Conze. Conze's 1973 The Large Sutra of Perfect Wisdom is a composite translation which mostly contains material from the 25,000 line sutra and the 18,000 line sutra (as well as passages from the 8,000 and 100,000 line versions) arranged based on the divisions found in the ...
Karmay (2007: pp. 107–108) renders an extract of the Samten Migdron in English as follows (Tibetan set in Wylie has been included in References for probity, culled from page 108): "Now, as for expounding the doctrine of Atiyoga, the excellent vehicle, the best and topmost yoga, the mother of all conquerors, its name is the Great Perfection. Why?
Review of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library at World History Sources; The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library: A New Model for the Nexus of Knowledge and Community for Academic Study of Other Cultures; THDL Project Overview; In Brief: The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library, D-Lib Magazine,Volume 8, Number 5, May 2002 ISSN 1082-9873
Gyatsho Tshering (1936 in Kingdom of Sikkim – 25 June 2009 in Minneapolis, United States), also spelled Gyatso Tsering, was Tibetan scholar of Indian nationality. [1] [2] He was the former director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.
The Shurangama or Śūraṅgama mantra is a dhāraṇī or long mantra of Buddhist practice in East Asia. Although relatively unknown in modern Tibet, there are several Śūraṅgama Mantra texts in the Tibetan Buddhist canon.
Tertön (Tibetan: གཏེར་སྟོན་, Wylie: gter ston) [1] is a term within Tibetan Buddhism meaning a person who is a discoverer of ancient hidden texts or terma. Many tertöns are considered to be incarnations of the twenty five main disciples of Padmasambhava ( Guru Rinpoche ), who foresaw a dark time in Tibet.
Vima Nyingthig (Tibetan: བི་མ་སྙིང་ཐིག་, Wylie: bi ma snying thig), "Seminal Heart of Vimalamitra", in Tibetan Buddhism is one of the two "seminal heart" (Tibetan: སྙིང་ཐིག, Wylie: snying thig) collections of the menngagde cycle Dzogchen, the other one being "Seminal Heart of the Dakini" (mkha' 'gro snying thig). [1]