Tibetan Canons
Columbia University holds several editions of the Tibetan canon, in print and electronic formats, including the Narthang, Dege, Lhasa Shol, Urga, Peking manuscript, and Gyantse Tempangma editions, etc. This page was developed with assistance from CU graduate student Runxiao Zhu. It provides links to several online finding tools for the study of Tibetan Buddhist canonical texts, as well as information on the editions available at Columbia University.
Introductions and Finding Tools
Canons at Columbia
CANONICAL TEXTS
This list surveys the canonical editions available at Columbia University. For more information, please consult "Introductions and Finding Tools" (left sidebar), as well as the genre heading "Canon" in the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center online database.
| Edition | Kangyur (with dates of creation) | Tengyur (with dates of creation) | CLIO and other access links (some resources require UNI authentication) |
| Bon-po | no date | bka'-brten no date | K: CUL backlog (ask Tibetan Librarian) K: Bibliographic record only in TBRC T: CLIO |
| Chone | 1729-1733 | 1753-1773 | |
| Comparative (dpe bsdur ma), China Tibetology Center, Beijing | 2006-2009 | 1994-2008 | K: CLIO T: CLIO |
| Derge | 1753-1773 | 1737-1744 | K: CLIO T: Search "Sde dge bstan 'gyur series" in CLIO |
| Kangxi (Peking manuscript) | 1692-1700 | n/a | CLIO |
| Golden (gser bris ma) (Ganden) | n/a | 1731-1741 | TBRC subscription |
| Gondhla (Lahul) | early 14th c. | n/a | Bibliographic record only in TBRC |
| Lhasa (Zhol) | 1934 | never completed | CU backlog (ask Tibetan Librarian) |
| Litang (Jang) | 1608-1621 | n/a | Bibliographic record only in TBRC |
| Mongol | 1717-1720 | no date | Bibliographic record only in TBRC |
| Mongolian Urga | 1908-1910? | n/a | |
| Narthang | 1730-1732 | 1741-1742 | K: CLIO (Delhi reprint) K: CLIO (RBML holding) CU backlog (ask Tibetan Librarian) |
| Shey (Shel mkhar) | 1730s | n/a | TBRC Subscription |
| Stog (Ladakh) | 18th c. | n/a | |
| Tempangma (Gyantse) | 1431 | n/a | CLIO |