Old Tantras
རྙིང་རྒྱུད། · rnying rgyud/
Pratantra
Seventeen works representing a small selection of the many “inner” class tantras of the Ngagyur Nyingma (“earlier translation”) tradition (Toh 828-844).
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Toh 828 Translation in progress
The Sovereign, All-Creating Mind of Enlightenment
བྱང་སེམས་ཀུན་བྱེད་རྒྱལ་པོ། · byang sems kun byed rgyal po/
bodhicittakulayarāja
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Title variants
- sarvadharmamahāśantibodhicittakulayarāja
- chos thams cad rdzogs pa chen po byang chub kyi sems kun byed rgyal po/
- 《一切法大圓滿菩提心普作王》
Toh 829 Translation in progress
The Sūtra of All-Gathering Awareness (or The Sūtra that Gathers All Intentions)
ཀུན་འདུས་རིག་པའི་མདོ། (མདོ་དགོངས་པ་འདུས་པ།) · kun 'dus rig pa'i mdo/ \(mdo dgongs pa 'dus pa/\)
samājasarvavidyāsūtra
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- [Note: translated from Burushaski, a language of the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan. Despite its initial title, which is similar to that of Toh 831, this text is commonly referred to by the title given in the chapter colophons, mdo dgongs pa 'dus pa, The Sūtra that Gathers All Intentions.]
- sarvatathāgatacittajñānaguhyārthagarbhavyūhavajratantrasiddhiyogāgamasamājasarvavidyāsūtramahāyānābhisamayadharmaparyāyavivyūhanāmasūtra
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi thugs gsang ba'i ye shes don gyi snying po rdo rje bkod pa'i rgyud rnal 'byor grub pa'i lung kun 'dus rig pa'i mdo theg pa chen po mngon par rtogs pa chos kyi rnam grangs rnam par bkod pa zhes bya ba'i mdo/
- sangs rgyas kun gyi dgongs pa 'dus pa'i mdo chen po/
- spyi mdo dgongs pa 'dus pa/
- 《總集明經》（意總集經）
Toh 830 Translation not Started
The Lightning Wheel of Magnificent Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་རྔམ་པ་གློག་གི་འཁོར་ལོ། · ye shes rngam pa glog gi 'khor lo/
jñānāścaryadyuticakra
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Title variants
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi gsang ba/ gsang ba'i mdzod chen po mi zad pa gter gyi sgron ma/ brtul zhugs chen po bsgrub pa'i rgyud/ ye shes rngam pa glog gi 'khor lo zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/
- sarvatathāgataguhyamahāguhyakośākṣayanidhidīpamahāpratapasādhanatantrajñānāścaryadyuticakranāmamahāyānasūtra
Tibetan translation:
- t. vajrvisramitra
- vairocanaraksita
Toh 831 Translation in progress
The Sūtra of All-Gathering Awareness
ཀུན་འདུས་རིག་པའི་མདོ། · kun 'dus rig pa'i mdo/
vajrakulatantrapiṇḍārthavidyāyogasiddha
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- sarvatathāgatacittaguhyajñānārthagarbhakrodhavajrakulatantrapiṇḍārthavidyāyogasiddhanāmamahāyānasūtra
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi thugs gsang ba'i ye shes don gyi snying po khro bo rdo rje rigs kun 'dus rig pa'i mdo rnal 'byor grub pa'i rgyud ces bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/
- 《總集明經》
- rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po rdo rje bkod pa kun 'dus rig pa'i mdo/
Toh 832 Translation not Started
The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real [the 22 chapter Guhyagarbha tantra]
གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ། · gsang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid rnam par nges pa/
guhyagarbhatattvaviniścaya
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- dpal gsang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid rnam par nges pa/
- śrīguhyagarbhatattvaviniścaya
Toh 833 Translation not Started
The Magical Net of Vajrasattva, the Mirror of All Secrets
རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲ་བ་གསང་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་མེ་ལོང། · rdo rje sems dpa'i sgyu 'phrul dra ba gsang ba thams cad kyi me long/
vajrasattvamāyājālaguhyasarvādarśa
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Title variants
- vajrasattvamāyājālaguhyasarvādarśanāmatantra
- 《金剛薩埵幻化網一切秘密之鏡》
- rdo rje sems dpa'i sgyu 'phrul dra ba gsang ba thams cad kyi me long zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
Toh 834 Translation not Started
The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real [the "80 chapter" Guhyagarbha tantra]
གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ངེས་པ། · gsang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid nges pa/
[no Sanskrit title]
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- brgyad cu pa/
- [Note: commonly referred to as the "80 chapter" tantra (brgyad cu pa) although in fact it has 82 chapters]
Toh 835 Translation in progress
The Noble Lasso of Methods, the Lotus Garland
ཐབས་ཀྱི་ཞགས་པ་པདྨོའི་ཕྲེང་བ། · thabs kyi zhags pa pad+mo'i phreng ba/
[no Sanskrit title]
Summary
Reconstructed stemmatic edition of the tantra together with its Tengyur commentary (G 2716, Q 4717; not found in Degé) in a restored version, IOLTibJ321.
Title variants
- 'phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad+mo'i phreng zhes bya ba/
- thabs kyi zhags pa pad+mo'i phreng ba don bsdus pa'i rgyud/
- The Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis Tantra
Toh 836 Translation not Started
The Tantra of the Great Magical Net of the Goddess
ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · lha mo sgyu 'phrul dra ba chen po'i rgyud/
devījālamahāmāyātantra
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- lha mo sgyu 'phrul dra ba chen po zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
- devījālamahāmāyātantranāma
Toh 837 Translation not Started
The Great Guru, from The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real
གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ངེས་པའི་བླ་མ་ཆེན་པོ། · gsang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid nges pa'i bla ma chen po/
[no Sanskrit title]
Toh 838 Translation not Started
The Secret Tantra of the Wheel of Mañjuśrī's Four Activities
འཇམ་དཔལ་ལས་བཞི་འཁོར་ལོ་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · 'jam dpal las bzhi 'khor lo gsang ba'i rgyud/
mañjuśrīkarmacatuścakraguhyatantra
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- 'phags pa 'jam dpal las bzhi 'khor lo gsang ba'i rgyud/
- āryamañjuśrīkarmacatuścakraguhyatantra
Toh 839 Translation not Started
The Great Tantra of Aśvottama's Display
རྟ་མཆོག་རོལ་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཆེན་པོ། · rta mchog rol pa'i rgyud chen po/
aśvottamavīṇāsamatāmahātantra
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- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi dgongs pa bla na med pa gsang ba rta mchog rol pa'i rgyud chen po zhes bya ba/
- sarvatathāgatabuddhānuttaraguhyaśvottamavīṇāsamatāmahātantranāma
- [Note: title translated on the basis of the Tibetan. The Sanskrit is dubious.]
Toh 840 Translation not Started
The Most Profound Secret Tantra of Śrī Heruka's Compassionate Display
དཔལ་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་སྙིང་རྗེ་རོལ་པའི་རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་ཟབ་མོའི་མཆོག། · dpal he ru ka snying rje rol pa'i rgyud gsang ba zab mo'i mchog/
śrīherukakaruṇakrīḍitatantraguhyagambhīrottama
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- dpal he ru ka snying rje rol pa'i rgyud gsang ba zab mo'i mchog ces bya ba/
- śrīherukakaruṇakrīḍitatantraguhyagambhīrottamanāma
Eight Great Sections [starting with] The Quintessence of Great Accomplishment Whereby All Things Have the Nature of the Five Nectars
ཐམས་ཅད་བདུད་རྩི་ལྔའི་རང་བཞིན་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་ཉེ་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་བམ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད་པ། · thams cad bdud rtsi lnga'i rang bzhin dngos grub chen po nye ba'i snying po bam po chen po brgyad pa/
sarvapañcāmṛtasārasiddhimahadgatahṛdayaparivartāṣṭaka
[This text has eight chapters, laid out as separate texts in Degé, and numbered 841 (1-8) in Toh, but here all included under this title]
Toh 841-1 Translation not Started
The Sap of the Five Amṛtas, Quintessence of Great Accomplishment
ཐམས་ཅད་བདུད་རྩི་ལྔའི་རང་བཞིན་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་ཉེ་བའི་སྙིང་པོ། · thams cad bdud rtsi lnga'i rang bzhin dngos grub chen po nye ba'i snying po/
sarvapañcāmṛtasārasiddhimahadgatahṛdaya
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- thams cad bdud rtsi lnga'i rang bzhin/ dngos grub chen po nye ba'i snying po mchog
Toh 841-2 Translation not Started
Homage to Brahmā and Other Sages, Deities, Nāgas, and Human Bodhisattvas
ཚངས་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ་དྲང་སྲོང་དང་ལྷ་དང་ཀླུ་དང་མིའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྣམས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། · tshangs pa la sogs pa drang srong dang lha dang klu dang mi'i byang chub sems dpa' rnams la phyag 'tshal lo/
amṛtarasāyana [Toh.]
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Title variants
- amṛtarasāyana/ tanajhaya/ praśastapramaṇaśrīkranapraśastayanamo
- [This chapter and others appear to be named by their expressions of homage. See also their colophon titles.]
Toh 841-3 Translation not Started
Homage to the Blessed One, the Great King of Non-Duality
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་གཉིས་མེད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། · bcom ldan 'das gnyis med kyi rgyal po chen po la phyag 'tshal lo/
prajñābhagavānmahārāja
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- prajñābhagavanmahārājā
Toh 841-4 Translation not Started
[Liberating the Five Great Fruits??]
འབྲས་བུ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་བསྒྲལ་བ། · 'bras bu chen po lnga bsgral ba/
uttāraṇamahādarapañca
Toh 841-5 Translation not Started
Homage to the Sugatas of the Five Families
རིགས་ལྔ་བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། · rigs lnga bde bar gshegs pa la phyag 'tshal lo/
kulapañcabuddhaya namaḥ
Toh 841-6 Translation not Started
Homage to Amṛtakuṇḍalī
བདུད་རྩི་འཁྱིལ་བ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། · bdud rtsi 'khyil ba la phyag 'tshal lo/
amṛtakuṇḍalyai namaḥ
Toh 841-7 Translation not Started
Transmission of the Vase of Amṛta
བདུད་རྩི་བུམ་པའི་ལུང། · bdud rtsi bum pa'i lung/
amṛtakalaśasiddhi
Toh 841-8 Translation not Started
Homage to the Blessed Mañjuśrī the Intelligent
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་འཇམ་དཔལ་རྣོན་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། · bcom ldan 'das 'jam dpal rnon po la phyag 'tshal lo/
bhagavādmañjuśrītīkṣṇāya namaḥ
Toh 841a Translation not Started
A Fragment from the Vajrakīlaya Root Tantra
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དུམ་བུ། · rdo rje phur pa rtsa ba’i rgyud kyi dum bu/
[no Sanskrit title]
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Title variants
- rdo rje khros pas zhe sdang gcod/
- [Note: not mentioned in Toh, and has no initial title. It is an extract from Toh 439, and represents Vajrakīlaya in this sequence of 8 texts (838-844) on the "eight classes of accomplishment" (sgrub sde brgyad) of Mahāyoga.]
Toh 842 Translation not Started
Tantra of the Flaming Ḍākinī
མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་མེ་ལྕེ་འབར་བའི་རྒྱུད། · mkha' 'gro ma me lce 'bar ba'i rgyud/
ḍākinyagnijihvājvālātantra
Toh 843 Translation not Started
Root Tantra of Vajramantrabhīru
དྲག་སྔགས་འདུས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད། · drag sngags 'dus pa rdo rje rtsa ba'i rgyud/
vajramantrabhīrusandhimūlatantra
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- vajramantrabhīrusandhimūlatantranāma
Toh 844 Translation in progress
The Tantra of Lokastotrapūja
འཇིག་རྟེན་མཆོད་བསྟོད་སྒྲུབ་པ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད། · 'jig rten mchod bstod sgrub pa rtsa ba'i rgyud/
lokastotrapūjakalpamūlatantra
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