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Auth. Author
BB Bauddha Bhāratī Series. Varanasi.
B.Budh. Bibliotheca Buddhica. St. Petersburg/Leningrad, 1897-1936.
BIT Bibliotheca Indo-Tibetica. Sarnath, UP: Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.
Blue Annals G. N. Roerich (trans.), The Blue Annals. 2nd edn. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1976. Translation of 'Gos Lo-tsā-ba Gzhon-nu-dpal, deb-ther sngon-po.
BMGD Bla-ma dgongs-'dus. Disc. Sangs-rgyas gling-pa. 13 vols. NNS 44-56 (1972 onwards). I(Sik)-Tib 72-903387. A more recent edition, not consulted here, has appeared in 18 volumes. Paro: Lama Ngodup and Sherab Drimey, 1981. Bhu-Tib 81-901820.
BST Buddhist Sanskrit Texts. Darbhaṅga, Bihar: Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning.
CLTC Mchog-gling gter-chos. The collected rediscovered teachings of Gter-chen Mchog-gyur-gliṅ-pa. New Delhi: Patshang Lama Sonam Gyaltsen, 1975. 30 vols. I-Tib 75-903248. Those who are particularly interested in the works of Mchog-gyur gling-pa, should also be aware of the following collection, which, however, was not consulted here: The treasury of revelations and teachings of Gter-chen Mchog-gyur-bde-chen-gliṅ-pa. Paro: Lama Pema Tashi, 1982. Bhu-Tib 82-906203.
Disc. DDTC “Discovered by”: in the case of treasures (gter-ma). Bdud-'dul rdo-rje'i gter-chos. The collected rediscovered teachings of Spo-bo Gter-chen Bdud-'dul-rdo-rje. 8 vols. Darjeeling: Bairo Trulku, 1976. I-Tib 76-901008.
DLTC Rdor-gling gter-chos. The collected gter-ma rediscoveries of Gter-chen Rdo-rje-gliṅ-pa. 4 vols. Paro: Dodrup Sangye Lama, 1976. I(Bhu)-Tib 76-901752.
DZ Gdams-ngag mdzod. Store of Precious Instructions. 12 vols. Delhi: N. Lungtok and N. Gyaltsan, 1971.
EIPRB K. Potter, Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Vol. 1, Bibliography (rev. edn.). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. References give the entry numbers for works cited.
Fundamentals Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History, Vol. 1, Bk. 1.
GCD Rñiṅ ma'i rgyud bcu bdun. 3 vols. New Delhi: Sanje Dorje, 1973-7. I-Tib 73-906438.
GCKZ Rgya-chen bka'-mdzod. Auth. 'Jam-mgon Kong-sprul Blo-gros mtha'-yas. 20 vols. Paro: Ngodup, 1975. I(Bhu)-Tib 75-903141. The last four volumes (17-20) constitute the Store which Embraces All Knowledge (shes-bya kun-khyab mdzod), which does not, however, properly belong to GCKZ. For considerable information on Kong-sprul's writing, the reader is referred to D. Schuh, Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke: Gesammelte Werken des Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros mtha'-yas. Verzeichnis der Orientalischcn Handschriften in Deutschland, XI, VI. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1976.
GDKT Rgyud-sde kun-btus. Compiled by 'Jam-dbyangs Blo-gter dbang-po. 30 vols. Delhi: N. Lungtok and N. Gyaltsan, 1971 onwards. I-Tib 70-919390.
GGFTC G. Dorje, The Guhyagarbhatattvaviniścayamahātantra and its XIVth Century Tibetan Commentary: Phyogs-bcu mun-sel. 3 vols. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University of London, 1987.
GOS Gaekwad's Oriental Series. Baroda: Oriental Institute.
GT T. V. Wylie, The Geography of Tibet according to the 'Dzam-gling rgyas-bshad. SOR 25 (1962).
GTKT Sgrub-thabs kun-btus. Compiled by 'Jam-dbyangs Blo-gter dbang-po. 14 vols. Dehra Dun: G. T. K. Lodoy, N. Lungtok and N. Gyaltsan, 1970. I-Tib 70-912479.
HBI É. Lamotte, Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien. Bibliothèque du Muséon, Vol. 43. Louvain: Publications Universitaires, 1958. English trans. S. Webb-Boin, 1988. The French page numbers given in our notes are correlated in the margins of the English version.
HIL History of Indian Literature. Ed. J. Gonda. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
HIL 1.1 J. Gonda, Vedic Literature. HIL Vol. 1, fascicule 1 (1975).
HIL 5.2 H. Scharfe, Grammatical Literature. HIL Vol. 5, fascicule 2 (1977).
HIL 5.3 E. Gerow, Indian Poetics. HIL Vol. 5, fascicule 3 (1977).
HIL 5.4 C. Vogel, Indian Lexicography. HIL Vol. 5, fascicule 4 (1979).
HIL 6.2 B. K. Matilal, Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika. HIL Vol. 6, fascicule 2 (1977).
HIL 6.4 D. Pingree, Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature. HIL Vol. 6, fascicule 4 (1981).
HIL 7.1 D. S. Ruegg, The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. HIL Vol. 7, fascicule 1 (1981).
HIL 9.3 D. Zbavitel, Bengali Literature. HIL Vol. 9, fascicule 3 (1976).
History Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History, Vol. 1, Bk. 2.
HOS Harvard Oriental Series. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
JIP Journal of Indian Philosophy.
JLSB 'Jigs-med gling-pa'i gsung-'bum. The collected works of Kun-mkhyen 'Jigs-med-gliṅ-pa. 9 vols. NNS 29-37 (1970 onwards). I(Sik)-Tib 74-917093. The Sde-dge xylo., which is still available, has not been consulted here.
JTPD 'Ja'-tshon pod-drug. Disc. 'Ja'-tshon snying-po. 7 vols. Darjeeling: Taklung Tsetrul Pema Wangyal, 1979-82. I-Tib 79-905783.
KCST Klong-chen gsung thor-bu. Miscellaneous Writings of Kun-mkhyen Kloṅ-chen-pa Dri-med 'od-zer. 2 vols. Delhi: Sanje Dorje, 1973.
KCZD Klong-chen mdzod-bdun. Sde-dge edn. 6 vols. Gangtok: Sherab Gyaltsen and Khyentse Labrang, 1983. I-Tib 83-905058.
KGDD Bka'-brgyad bde-gshegs 'dus-pa'i chos-skor. Disc. Nyang-ral Nyi-ma 'od-zer. 13 vols. NNS 75-87 (1978). I-Tib 78-905643. Several other versions of this cycle, which we have not referred to here, have been published in India and Bhutan, the most important of these being the Mtshams-brag manuscript in 13 vols. Paro: Ngodrup, 1979-80. I(Bhu)-Tib 79-903504.
KGHP A. Ferrari, mK'yen brtse's Guide to the Holy Places of Central Tibet. Ed. L. Petech. SOR 16 (1958).
KGNZ] Bka'-b[[rgyud sngags-mdzod. Compiled by 'Jam-mgon Kong-sprul Blo-gros mtha'-yas. 8 vols. Paro: Dilgo Khyentsey Rinpoche, 1982. Bhu-Tib 82-901827. An earlier edition of the same collection, which we have not consulted here, was published by SNGP in 6 volumes in 1974. I-Tib 75-900393. The addition of two volumes to the Paro edn. is explained by the inclusion of a manuscript version of a very rare Vajrapāṇi cycle, which, however, does not properly belong to the KGNZ]. [[LCSB Lo-chen gsung-'bum. Collected works of Smin-gliṅ Lo-chen Dharma-śrī. 19 vols. Dehra Dun: D. G. Khochhen Trulku, 1975. I-Tib 75-904278.
Litho. Lithographic edition. Used in the case of certain Tibetan works only.
LTWA Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Dharamsala, HP.
MCB Melanges Chinois et Bouddhiques. Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises, Brussels.
MPSB Mi-pham gsung-'bum. No complete edition of Mi-pham's works is yet available, nor was any ever published in Tibet. The most complete traditional]] edition was prepared in Sde-dge and is still available. This has been partially reproduced in India: Collected Writings of 'Jam-mgon 'Ju Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho. 15 vols. NNS 60-74 (1972 onwards). I(Sik)-Tib 72-906838. In this bibliography MPSB will signify the latter edition. For much valuable information on Mi-pham's writings, refer to D. Schuh, Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke sowie Tonbandaufnahmen Tibetischer Erzählungen. Teil 5. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1973, pp. 63-266. A new edition of Mi-pham's collected works, incorporating all that is available at the present time, has been published under the direction of Dilgo Khyentsey Rinpoche: Sde-dge par-ma. 25 vols. Paro: Dilgo Khyentsey Rinpoche, 1982-.
MTTWL P. Pfandt, Mahāyāna Texts Translated into Western Languages. Cologne: In Kommission bei E. J. Brill, 1983.
Mvt. Mahāvyutpatti. Ed. R. Sakaki, Kyoto, 1916-25.
NA Not available. Used when the mass of evidence suggests that the text or teaching in question is simply not extant at the present time.
NGB Rnying-ma'i rgyud-'bum. Collected Tantras of the Nyingmapa. Thimpu: Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, 1973, 36 vols. Catalogue by E. Kaneko, Tokyo, 1982. The Sde-dge xylo., which is still available, has not been consulted here.
NL Not located. Used when there is not sufficient evidence to apply the label NA, but we none the less have no certain knowledge of available editions or manuscripts.
NMKMG Rnying-ma bka'-ma rgyas-pa. Collected Transmitted Precepts of the Nyingmapa. Ed. Dudjom Rinpoche. 55 vols. Kalimpong, WB: Dubjung Lama, 1982. I-Tib 82-900981. Vols. 21-55 consist of commentarial and other ancillary material newly incorporated into the Bka'-ma collection by the editor. An earlier edition, to which we do not refer here, comprises 14 vols.: NNS 7-20 (1969 onwards). I(Sik)-Tib 71-908710.
NNS Ngagyur Nyingmay Sungrab. Published by Sonam T. Kazi, Gangtok, Sikkim.
NYZ Snying-thig ya-bzhi. Four-Part Innermost Spirituality. 11 vols. New Delhi: Trulku Tsewang, Jamyang and L. Tashi, 1970. The Sde-dge xylo., which is still available, has not been consulted here.
P The Tibetan Tripiṭaka, Peking Edition. 168 vols. Tokyo-Kyoto: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1955-61.
PL Plate. See Volume One, pp. xv-xxi.
PLTC Pad-gling gter-chos. The rediscovered teachings of the great Padma-gliṅ-pa. 22 vols. Thimphu: Kunsang Tobgay, 1975. I(Bhu)-Tib 75-903254.
PPCT K. Dowman, The Power Places of Central Tibet. London/New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988.
PRS L. Lancaster (ed.), Prajñāpāramitā and Related Systems. Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series, Vol. 1. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1977.
Pub. Photo-mechanical publication. Used only of editions which reproduce, by such means as photo-offset, older Tibetan manuscripts or xylographic editions, but omitted in connection with the Tibetan collections referred to by abbreviation (BMGD, CLTC, DZ, etc.), which are all reproductions of this sort. Where no title is specified following “pub.” the work in question was published under the Tibetan title of the entry following which it is here listed.
Redisc. “Rediscovered by”: in the case of treasures that had been reconcealed after their original discovery (yang-gter).
RLTC Rat-gling gter-chos. Collected rediscovered teachings of Ratna-gliṅ-pa. 19 vols. Darjeeling: Taklung Tsetrul Pema Wangyal, 1977. I-Tib 77-901310.
RTD Rin-chen gter-mdzod. Store of Precious Treasure. 111 vols. Paro: Ngodrup and Sherap Drimey, 1976. Index compiled by Sik K. Yeshe Zangmo, 1984.
SBE F. Max Müller (ed.), Sacred Books of the East. Oxford University Press. Reprinted, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
SK Sa-skya bka'-'bum. The Complete Works of the Great Masters of the Sa Skya Pa Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. 15 vols. Tokyo: Tokyo Bunko, 1968.
SNGP Sungrab Nyamso Gyunphel Parkhang. Palampur, HP: Tibetan Craft Community.
SOR Serie Orientale Roma. Published by the Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (Is.M.E.O.).
SP Śatapiṭaka Series. Sarasvati Vihar, New Delhi.
sss Smanrtsis shesrig spendzod. Leh, Ladakh: S. W. Tashigangpa.
STC B. N. Aziz and M. Kapstein (eds.), Soundings in Tibetan Civilization. New Delhi: Manohar, 1985.
T A Complete Catalogue of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon. (Tōhoku University catalogue of the Sde-dge edition of the Canon.) Ed. H. Ui et al. Sendai, 1934.
Taishō Taishō shinshū daizōkyō. J. Takakusu, K. Watanabe, et al. (eds.), Tokyo: Taishō Issaikyō Kankō Kai, 1924-32. We refer to this, the Chinese Buddhist Tripiṭaka, only in those instances where the text in question is not available in either an Indic version or in Tibetan.
TG The Tibet Guide. Lhasa, Central Tibet and Tsang by S. Batchelor; Western Tibet by B. Beresford and S. Jones; Eastern Tibet by G. Dorje. 2nd rev. edn., Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1991.
TH Gyurme Dorje, Tibet Handbook. Chicago, Ill: Passport books: 1996, 1999, 2002.
TMS G.C.C. Chang (ed.), A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sutras: Selections from the Mahāratnakūṭa. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983.
TSHR M. Aris and Aung San Suu Kyi (eds.), Tibetan Studies in Honour of Hugh Richardson. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1980.
TSWS Tibetan-Sanskrit Works Series. Patna, Bihar: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute.
TWB Prof. Yensho Kanakure et al. (ed.), A Catalogue of the Tōhoku University Collection of Tibetan Works on Buddhism. Sendai: Tōhoku Imperial University, 1953.
TWPS L. Chandra, Tibetan Works Printed by the Shoparkang of the Potala. SP 38 (1959), pp. 120-32. Note that most of the texts listed herein are now available again in Lhasa. Enquiries must be directed to the Dang'anju, which is the restored Zhol parkhang.
Xylo. Xylographic edition.
ZGSB Zhe-chen rgyal-tshab-kyi gsung-'bum. The collected works of Źe-chen Rgyal-tshab Padma rnam-rgyal. 18 vols. Paro: Ngodup, 1975 onwards. I(Bhu)-Tib 75-903143.
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