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in the package and any of our other texts, reference works, dictionaries,
and so on as part of a 
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Collected Works of Great Teachers
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Text Collections
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Works in progress
| We have a large collection of electronic texts and will gradually make these available. For example, we have the entire collections of the works of several of the early masters, such as Gampopa, Phagmo Drupa, Zhang Rinpoche, and so on. |
Full Descriptions of Titles Available
Khenpo Zhangar was the head, many years ago, of the famed Shri Singha college at Dzogchen Gonpa in Tibet. He
insisted on compiling a complete set of all the main Indian Buddhist texts that should be studied and then wrote
a set of annotational commentaries on all of them. The whole set comes in seven volumes. The first
volume is actually two normal volumes in size. Called the root volume, it contains nineteen of the main Indian
Buddhist texts that a Tibetan Buddhist would study. The remaining six volumes contain his annotational commentaries
to thirteen of the texts. We have input the root volume specifically because it provides in one place, all
of the main texts of the Indian tradition needed for studying Buddhadharma for all schools of the Tibetan Buddhist
tradition. Note that, although Khenpo Zhanga's collection is titled "Thirteen texts ...", that only refers
to the number of commentaries included. The root volume actually contains the nineteen texts listed
below. The texts include the Five Dharmas of Maitreya and the six-fold Collection of Reasoning of Nagarjuna. They are:
This consists of approximately three volumes of texts written by Dusum Khyenpa [1110 to 1193 A.D.] himself
and records of his talks, and so on, written by his students. The collected works are very rare and hard to
obtain. We were fortunate to obtain a hand written copy of the original made by Akong Tulku's Rogpa
Foundation. The entire original was input by our office and carefully corrected to reflect the
original. (When Tibetans do this work, they change the text as they think fit but without making any
notation. We have specifically avoided this approach so that what you get reflects the original,
exactly). The entire collected works comes as a single electronic text with index at the top. The index
is linked to the texts in the body of the volume, so it is easy to navigate. Moreover, because the text
is in a single file, it is very easy to search. It also makes an excellent addition to a reference library
made using our software and the many other texts we provide, those below and those for free. Note that
the price is less than you would pay for a modern three volume set of any Tibetan texts on paper.
If you are interested in translations of the texts, we have a book 
The five dharmas of Maitreya are the five texts written down by Asanga that
encapsulate the teachings he received from Maitreya:
This is a complete set of the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa in fully searchable electronic format. Adzom Drukpa's edition
on paper is regarded as the best edition available though it is very rare and hard to obtain. These days, a good paper edition of
is essentially impossible to obtain but many people need the texts for their practice so we prepared a new electronic edition for
everyone's benefit.
The Rechungpa Hearing lineage is the hearing lineage of Vajrayogini and
Chakrasamvara teachings brought back from India by Rechungpa. Rechungpa was sent
to India by Milarepa to get the texts of the Dakini Hearing Lineage that Marpa
had not been able to bring back to Tibet. These teachings are very important
in the Kagyu in general and these days are especially important because they
show the essential teachings of the Kagyu as they were brought from India. The
texts are rare. Our electronic edition is complete.
The Encyclopedia of Knowledge is one of the five, famous "Treasuries"
compiled in the 19th century by the great Jamgon Kongtrul. The original edition was in three volumes
(though a four volume edition is commonly seen these days) and contains a wealth of material on the whole
field of Buddhist knowledge. The entire text is available from us in Tibetan. It is provided in three editions:
the original text without corrections, the original text with annotated corrections, and a new edition
with the editorial corrections in place. You can search the entire text of any of these editions
in an instant with the supplied TibetD Reader software. The CD contains an un-edited version (conforming
to the original Tibetan text), the same version but with editorial annotations, and a third version which
is the final, edited version. Shortly we will include a complete set of scanned images of the original,
as well. This presentation allows scholars and practitioners a complete and reliable electronic source
for the text. If there is a question about the correctness of the input, the digital image can be
consulted. When used in conjunction with our dictionaries, unknown terms can be found immediately.
Buton Rinchen Drup [1290-1364] was a great scholar
of Tibetan tradition who is especially known for his attempts to compile all of the teachings of Buddha-dharma
that had come into Tibet into one place. He is equally famous for his history of the rise of buddha dharma
in India and its spread in India and Tibetan, written in 1322. His history is one of the most famous Tibetan
histories of the rise of buddha dharma in Indian and Tibet. It is an encyclopaedic reference with an enormous amount
of detail of names, dates, lineages, and so on. The entire history text in Tibetan, consisting of one large volume
is available in electronic format. An English translation made many years ago by E. Obermiller is hard
to get but available through major Western bookstores.
An extensive dictionary of important people of Tibet. The dictionary contains entries for a little over 2250 people
who appeared in Tibet over the last 1400 years. It includes kings, their ministers, and, of course, a very
large number of spiritual practitioners. The dictionary lists the names in alphabetical order, with each name having
a short to medium length biography attached. The biographies include birth, death, and usually many other important
dates for the person, and give quite a lot of information about each person's life. In the case of
spiritual practitioners, information about the teachings received and their teachers and then the disciples
who studied with them is given. In Tibetan culture, there are often multiple names for any given person and this
dictionary often contains several names for any one person, making it a particularly valuable
resource. Furthermore, a wealth of names not listed as entries in the dictionary are included in
the various biographies and these names can easily be found using the various special lookup features
of the TibetD Reader software provided with the dictionary. Where possible names have been hyperlinked for ease of use. The dictionary is a Tibetan-Tibetan dictionary with an informative introduction in English
by Lotsawa Tony Duff. The dictionary works in conjunction with all of our electronic dictionaries
and texts and can be made part of an electronic reference centre as described elsewhere on this site. We
strongly recommend this dictionary as a standard reference for all serious students of Tibetan culture, and
especially people doing translation work.
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