Unexcelled Yoga tantras
Tantras of the highest class, divided into “non-dual,” “mother,” and “father,” and within the two latter categories into six “families” of principal deities (Toh 360-478).
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
| Texts: 120 | Published: 8 | In Progress: 31 | Not Begun: 81 |
Unexcelled Yoga tantras
The works in this subsection are classified as belonging to the highest of the four classes of tantra according to the gsar ma (“new”) traditions. The Tibetan term for the Unexcelled Yoga class, rnal ’byor bla na med pa’i rgyud, has traditionally been back-translated into Sanskrit as anuttarayogatantra, but this term is not attested in Sanskrit texts; using forms that are attested, yoganiruttaratantra or yogottaratantra are preferable.
The Unexcelled Yoga tantras are characterized by the practices of the two phases of generation and completion, by their approach to the deity as inseparable in all respects from the practitioner, and by their emphasis on wisdom or awareness (jñāna, ye shes).
Tantras of this class are subdivided into three main groups: non-dual tantras (gnyis med kyi rgyud), mother tantras (ma’i rgyud), and father tantras (pha’i rgyud). The mother tantras emphasize wisdom (prajñā, shes rab), while the father tantras emphasize method or skillful means (upāya, thabs), and these two categories were initially the only divisions within the Unexcelled Yoga tantras. As Situ Paṇchen’s Degé Kangyur catalogue mentions, the third category, non-dual tantras, emphasizing the union of wisdom and means, was thought necessary by Butön to accomodate the Kālacakratantra in particular. The placing of tantras in these categories, and the criteria on which such classifications should be based, were far from being universally agreed upon by Tibetan scholars, and even between the Degé Kangyur and Tengyur there are considerable differences.
I. The Non-dual tantras, Toh 360-365, comprise the Mañjusrīnāmasaṃgīti and the Kālacakra tantras:
(a) The Mañjusrīnāmasaṃgīti (Toh 360) was translated into Tibetan in the imperial, “early” (snga dar) period and again in the “later” (phyi dar) period, the translation in the Degé Kangyur being the later one. Situ Paṇchen notes that while some (i.e. Nyingma) scholars consider the Mañjusrīnāmasaṃgīti to be part of the samādhi section of the Māyājāla-Guhyagarbha cycle and would classify it as father tantra, others follow a statement in the Vimalaprabhā (Toh 845, the commentary on the Kālacakra Laghutantra) according to which it represents the ultimate meaning of all the tantras and, in particular, the essence of the Kālacakra, and place it, as here, at the head of the whole tantra division.
(b) The texts of the Kālacakra (Toh 361-365), traditionally said to have their origin in the land of Shambhala, were translated into Tibetan in the 11th century. The original Root Tantra, the Mūla or Paramādibuddha, has not survived in Sanskrit and was not translated, but Toh 362 is the abridged five-chapter version (Laghutantra) compiled by the Shambhala King Mañjuśrī Yaśas, and is said to have been translated into Tibetan no less than 16 times, the version here being that of Somanātha and Dro Sherab Drak. Toh 361 and 365 are extracts from the Mūlatantra on the subject of the empowerment. See also the separate Kālacakra Commentary section.
Note that in the Tantra section of the Tengyur, in contrast to that of the Kangyur, commentaries and liturgical works on the Hevajra tantras (see below) are placed first in the order of texts and are classified (in the Tengyur Catalogue) as non-dual.
II. The 76 Mother tantras, Toh 366-441, are often referred to as the Yoginītantras (rnal ’byor ma’i rgyud), and are divided into seven subgroups in terms of six families (rigs drug):
(a) Those in which the six families are taught to be equal (rigs drug ka mnyam par ston pa, Toh 366 and 367), the tantras of Ḍākinījālaśaṃvara.
(b) The heruka family (he ru ka’i rigs), comprising the tantras associated with five deities:
1. Śaṃvara (bde mchog): the root or Laghutantra (Toh 368) is said to be condensed from much longer original texts of 300,000 and 100,000 stanzas. Among the explanatory tantras (Toh 369-382) are the important Abhidhānottara (Toh 369), the Dākarṇava (Toh 372), and the Śaṃvoradaya (Toh 373). This section also contains a distinct corpus of 32 short explanatory tantras (Toh 383-416) translated by Drokmi Shākya Yeshé and known collectively as the Rali tantras (ra li’i rgyud).
2. Hevajra (kye rdor, Toh 417-423).
3. Buddhakapāla (sangs rgyas thod pa, Toh 424).
4. Mahāmāyā (ma hA mA yA, Toh 425).
5. Vajrārali (rdo rje A ra li, Toh 426-427).
(c) The Vairocana (or Buddha) family (rnam snang gi rigs), comprising tantras centered on:
1. Vairocana (Toh 428-430).
2. Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa (Toh 431).
3. Acala (Toh 432-434).
(d) The Vajrasūrya (or Ratna) family (rdo rje nyi ma’i rigs), here a single tantra of Vajrāmṛta (Toh 435)
(e) The Lotus Lord family (pad+ma gar dbang gi rigs), comprising an extract from the Great Tantra of the Blazing Lotus (Toh 436) and the Practice Manual of Kurukullā (Toh 437).
(f) The Aśvottama family (rta mchog, “Supreme Horse”), comprising the Praise of Tārā in Twenty-One Homages (Toh 438), a fragment from the Vajrakīlaya root tantra (Toh 439), and the Tantra of Mahākāla (Toh 440). The two tantras of Tārāyoginī (Toh 448 and 449), added in later printings and mentioned below, presumably belong here in terms of classification.
(g) The Vajradhara family (rdo rje ’chang gi rigs), here a single tantra, the Extant Khasama Tantra (Toh 441).
III. The 37 Father tantras, Toh 442-478, are divided (in theory, at least) into six subgroups, of which two are not represented:
(a) The Akṣobhya family (mi bskyod pa’i rigs, Toh 442-465), including the root tantra of the Guhyasamāja (Toh 442) and its explanatory tantras (Toh 443-447 and 450-453). Of these, Toh 444 and 447 are mainly exegetical, while Toh 445 and 446 focus on the yogic practices of the subtle body. Toh 447 and Toh 450 have the same title. The translation of Toh 452, originally by Butön, was only fully completed after the first printing of the Degé because the missing beginning of the source manuscript had only then been identified. The long Toh 453, translated by Marpa Lotsāwa, may be related to it; another translation by Smṛtijñāna seems also to have existed at one time. The section also includes a number of tantras related to Vajrapāṇi (Toh 454-457 and 463-464).
The two tantras of Tārāyoginī (Toh 448 and 449), present only in later printings of the Degé and inserted at the end of volume 81, are not mentioned in the dkar chag; they clearly do not belong to this group but were placed here for convenience.
(b) The Vairocana family (rnam snang gi rigs), Toh 466-475), mostly comprising tantras of Yamāri (or Yamāntaka) and Vajrabhairava, but starting with the Māyājāla.
(c) The Ratnasambhava family (rin ’byung gi rigs), not represented in the Kangyur.
(d) The Amitābha family (’od dpag med kyi rigs), represented by the single tantra of Ekajaṭa (Toh 476).
(e) The Amoghasiddhi family (don yod grub pa’i rigs), not represented in the Kangyur.
(f) The Vajradhara family (rdo rje ’chang gi rigs), here a single tantra, the Candraguhyatilakatantra (zla gsang thig le’i rgyud, Toh 477).
An extra work, the Raktayamāritantra (Toh 478), was added to the end of volume 83 in later printings of the Degé Kangyur, but presumably belongs to the Vairocana family rather than that of Vajradhara.
Texts in this Section
Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī
འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད། · 'jam dpal mtshan brjod/
mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- mañjuśrījñānasattvasya paramārthanāmasaṃgītiḥ
- 'jam dpal ye shes sems dpa'i don dam pa'i mtshan yang dag par brjod pa
Summary of Empowerment
དབང་མདོར་བསྟན་པ། · dbang mdor bstan pa
Sekoddeśa
Summary
The Summary of Empowerment is considered to be the only extant portion of the root text of the Kālacakratantra. According to the Buddhist tantric tradition, the Sekkodeśa was transmitted by the Buddha in his emanation as Kālacakra, to Sucandra, the first king of Śambhala. The text’s 174 verses cover a wide range of topics. After a short introduction to the eleven empowerments that constitute a gradual purification of the aggregates, body, speech, mind, and wisdom, the treatise turns to the so-called “sixfold yoga.” It begins by teaching meditation on emptiness via the contemplation of various signs, such as smoke or fireflies. Following the description of the control of winds and drops within the body’s channels and cakras, along with the signs of death and methods of cheating death, the text goes on to describe the three mudrās—karmamudrā, jñānamudrā, and mahāmudrā. After a concise criticism of cause and effect, the text concludes by describing six kinds of supernatural beings closely related to the Kālacakratantra, along with their respective families.
Title variants
- [Note: a section of the (lost) Kālacakra Mūlatantra]
The Glorious Kālacakra, King of Tantras, Taken from the Supreme Primordial Buddha Tantra
Paramādibuddhoddhritaśrīkālacakranāmatantrarājā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo/
- མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།
- Kālacakra
- Laghutantra
- Kālacakratantra
- dus kyi 'khor lo
- 時輪金剛
- མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།
- mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba/
Tibetan translation:
- Somanātha
- bod kyi lo tsA ba 'bro dge slong shes rab grags
Revision:
- dge slong shong ston
- dge slong tshul khrims dar
- mkhas pa chen po zhang ston mdo sde dpal
- Śākyaśrībhadra
The Essence of the Higher Tantra of Kālacakra
དུས་འཁོར་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མའི་སྙིང་པོ། · dus 'khor rgyud phyi ma'i snying po/
śrīkālacakratantrottaratantrahṛdayanāma
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i rgyud phyi ma rgyud kyi snying po zhes bya ba
The Essence of the Tantra of Kālacakra
དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོ། · dus kyi 'khor rgyud kyi snying po/
kālacakragarbhanāmatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [the Sanskrit translates as:] The Tantra known as "The Essence of Kālacakra"
- dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi snying po/
- śrīkālacakragarbhanāmatantra
Performance of the Initiation
དབང་གི་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ། · dbang gi rab tu byed pa/
śekaprakriyā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [Note: an extract from the 3rd and 5th chapters of the Kālacakra Laghutantra]
The Higher Tantra of the Deity Ḍākinījālaśaṃvara, Who is the Union of All the Buddhas
སངས་རྒྱས་མཉམ་སྦྱོར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་སྒྱུ་མ་བདེ་མཆོག་གི་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ། · sangs rgyas mnyam sbyor mkha' 'gro sgyu ma bde mchog gi rgyud phyi ma/
sarvabuddhasamayogaḍākinījālaśaṃvarottaratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [Note: here and in what follows we are taking "bde mchog" as śaṃvara, while "sdom pa" is saṃvara.]
- The Higher Tantra of the Deity Ḍākinījālaśaṃvara, Who Is the Union of All the Buddhas
- śrīsarvabuddhasamayogaḍākinījālaśaṃvaranāmottaratantra
- dpal sangs rgyas thams cad dang mnyam par sbyor ba mkha' 'gro ma sgyu ma bde ba'i mchog ces bya ba'i rgyud phyi ma/
The Supplementary Tantra to the The Higher Tantra of the Deity Ḍākinījālaśaṃvara, Who is the Union of All the Buddhas
སངས་རྒྱས་མཉམ་སྦྱོར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་སྒྱུ་མ་བདེ་མཆོག་གི་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མའི་ཕྱི་མ། · sangs rgyas mnyam sbyor mkha' 'gro sgyu ma bde mchog gi rgyud phyi ma'i phyi ma/
sarvabuddhasamayogaḍākinījālaśaṃvarottarottaratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- The Supplementary Tantra to the The Higher Tantra of the Deity Ḍākinījālaśaṃvara, Who Is the Union of All the Buddhas
- sarvakalpasamuccayanāmasarvabuddhasamayogaḍākinījālaśaṃvarottarottaratantra
- rtog pa thams cad 'dus pa zhes bya ba sangs rgyas thams cad dang mnyam par sbyor ba mkha' 'gro sgyu ma bde ba'i mchog gi rgyud phyi ma'i phyi ma/
The Smaller Śaṃvara
བདེ་མཆོག་ཉུང་ངུ། · bde mchog nyung ngu/
laghuśaṃvara
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal bde mchog nyung ngu zhes bya ba/
- tantrarājaśrīlaghuśaṃvaranāma
- cakrasaṃvaralaghutantra
- śrīherukābhidāna
Appendix to the Discourse Tantra
མངོན་བརྗོད་རྒྱུད་བླ་མ། · mngon brjod rgyud bla ma/
abhidhānottaratantra
Summary
The Discourse Appendix Tantra is a moderately long tantra traditionally considered to be an explanatory tantra (vyākyātantra) linked to the Cakrasaṃvara tradition. As such, the text fills in many of the details about practice left out of the root tantra. It explains in more detail important rituals such as mandala construction and initiation ceremonies and goes into much more depth relating deity yoga practices. It describes the deities’ iconography in much more detail, relates their mantras, and also contains, embedded within the text, sadhana-like descriptions of deity yoga visualization practices. It also features body mandala practices quite prominently.
Title variants
- abhidhanottaratantranāma
- mngon par brjod pa'i rgyud bla ma zhes bya ba/
- 《善說無上續》
Vajraḍāka
རྡོ་རྗེ་མཁའ་འགྲོ། · rdo rje mkha' 'gro/
vajraḍākatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po dpal rdo rje mkha' 'gro zhes bya ba/
- śrīvajraḍākanāmamahātantrarāja
The Supplementary Tantra of Vajraḍāka
རྡོ་རྗེ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ། · rdo rje mkha' 'gro'i rgyud phyi ma/
vajraḍākanāmottarantantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rdo rje mkha' 'gro zhes bya ba'i rgyud phyi ma/
Ocean of Ḍākas, a Yoginītantra
མཁའ་འགྲོ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་རྒྱུད། · mkha' 'gro rgya mtsho rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud/
ḍākarṇavamahāyoginītantrarāja
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīḍākarṇavamahāyoginītantrarājanāma
- dpal mkha' 'gro rgya mtsho rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po zhes bya ba/
- 《吉祥空行海瑜伽母續王》
The Tantra of the Arising of Śaṃvara
བདེ་མཆོག་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · bde mchog 'byung ba'i rgyud/
śaṃvarodayatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal bde mchog 'byung ba zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po/
- śrīmahāśaṃvarodayanāmatantrarāja
The Arising of Heruka
ཁྲག་འཐུང་མངོན་འབྱུང་། · khrag 'thung mngon 'byung /
herukābhyudaya
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal khrag 'thung mngon par 'byung ba zhes bya ba/
- śrīherukābhyudayanāma
The Manifesting of Yoginīs
རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤྱོད་པ། · rnal 'byor ma'i kun tu spyod pa/
yoginīsaṃcāra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [Note: in spite of the Tibetan kun tu spyod pa, saṃcāra does not seem to mean “conduct” or “career” here, but rather “manifesting.” This is brought out in commentaries. E.g., saṃcāra is explained in the Saṃcāranibandha (a commentary on the Yoginīsaṃcāra) as: saṃcāraḥ pracāro yogīnāṃ yogiśarīre maṇḍale ca “Saṃcāra is the manifestation of yoginīs in the practitioner’s body and in the maṇḍala”. The interpretation is confirmed by the other commentary on the same text, the Upadeśānusariṇīvyākhyā.]
The Tantra of Union with the Four Yoginīs
རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་བཞིའི་ཁ་སྦྱོར་རྒྱུད། · rnal 'byor ma bzhi'i kha sbyor rgyud/
caturyoginīsampuṭatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rnal 'byor ma bzhi'i kha sbyor gyi rgyud/
- caturyoginīsaṃpuṭatantranāma
The Awakening of Vārāhī
ཕག་མོ་མངོན་པར་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ། · phag mo mngon par byang chub pa/
vārāhyabhibodhana
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- phag mo mngon par brjod pa bshad pa'i rgyud phyi ma las/ phag mo mngon par byang chub pa zhes bya ba/
- ākhyātatantrottaravajravārāhyabhidhānād vārāhyabhibodhanaṃ nāma
- From the supplementary explanatory tantra, "The Awakening of Vārāhī"
The Preeminence of Vārāhī, a Sovereign Tantra
ཕག་མོ་མངོན་པར་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · phag mo mngon par 'byung ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
vajravārāhyabhibhava
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- mkha' 'gro ma thams cad kyi thugs gnyis su med pa bsam gyis mi khyab pa'i ye shes rdo rje phag mo mngon par 'byung ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- ḍākinīsarvacittādvayācintyajñānavajravārāhyabhibhavatantrarājanāma
The Supplementary Tantra to the Tantra "The Preeminence of Vārāhī"
ཕག་མོ་མངོན་པར་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད་ལས་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ། · phag mo mngon par 'byung ba'i rgyud las rgyud phyi ma/
[no Sanskrit title]
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- mkha' 'gro ma thams cad kyi thugs gnyis su med pa'i ye shes bsam gyis mi khyab pa phag mo mngon par 'byung ba'i rgyud las rgyud phyi ma/
- [Two additional chapters of the preceding tantra. There is no initial title for this work, so the title here is taken from the colophon. ]
The Propitiation Ritual of Vajrayoginī
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས། · rdo rje rnal 'byor ma'i sgrub thabs/
vidyādhariṇīvajrayoginīsādhana
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rig pa 'dzin pa rdo rje rnal 'byor ma'i sgrub thabs zhes bya ba/
- vidyādhariṇīvajrayoginīsādhananāma
Emergence from Sampuṭa
ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བ། · yang dag par sbyor ba
Sampuṭodbhavaḥ
Summary
The tantra Emergence from Sampuṭa is an all-inclusive compendium of Buddhist theory and practice as taught in the two higher divisions of the Yoga class of tantras, the “higher” (uttara) and the “highest” (niruttara), or, following the popular Tibetan classification, the Father and the Mother tantras. Dating probably to the end of the tenth century, the bulk of the tantra consists of a variety of earlier material, stretching back in time and in the doxographical hierarchy to the Guhyasamāja, a text traditionally regarded as the first tantra in the Father group. Drawing from about sixteen well-known and important works, including the most seminal of the Father and Mother tantras, it serves as a digest of this entire group, treating virtually every aspect of advanced tantric theory and practice. It has thus always occupied a prominent position among canonical works of its class, remaining to this day a rich source of quotations for Tibetan exegetes.
Title variants
- The Foundation of All Tantras, the Great Sovereign Compendium “Emergence from Sampuṭa”
- Saṃpuṭodbhavasarvatantranidānamahākalparājaḥ
- ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཆེན་པོ།
- yang dag par sbyor ba zhes bya ba’i rgyud chen po
- 《大續「正相合」》
The Tilaka of Sampuṭa
ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བའི་ཐིག་ལེ། · yang dag par sbyor ba'i thig le/
[Sampuṭatilaka]
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po dpal yang dag par sbyor ba'i thig le zhes bya ba/
- Despite being a Kangyur text, this is a commentary, sometimes referred to as the “eleventh chapter” of the Sampuṭodbhava (Toh 381). It is included in some Sampuṭodbhava manuscripts in Sanskrit (Royal Asiatic Society and Wellcome Institute Library) as their final part.
Guhyavajra, a Sovereign Tantra
གསང་བ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · gsang ba rdo rje rgyud kyi rgyal po/
guhyavajratantrarāja
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal gsang ba rdo rje rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīguhyavajratantrarāja
The Glorious King of Tantras That Resolves All Secrets
དཔལ་གསང་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་གཅོད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · dpal gsang ba thams cad gcod pa’i rgyud kyi rgyal po
Śrīguhyasarvacchindatantrarāja
Summary
As its title suggests, this tantra is specifically concerned with the proper interpretation, or “resolution,” of the highly esoteric or “secret” imagery and practices associated with deity yoga in both its development and completion stages as described in the Yoginītantra class of tantras. The work is organized according to a dialogue between the Buddha and Vajragarbha—the lead interlocutor throughout many of the Yoginītantras—and the Buddha’s responses give particular attention to the specifications of the subtle body completion-stage yoga involving manipulations of the body’s subtle energy channels, winds, and fluids in conjunction with either a real or imagined consort. The tantra sets its interpretation of these common Yoginītantra themes and imagery within the wider context of the four initiations prevalent in this class of tantras. In resolving the secrets connected with each initiation, the text elaborates the different levels of meaning connected with each initiation’s contemplative practices.
Title variants
- གསང་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་གཅོད་པའི་རྒྱུད།
- gsang ba thams cad gcod pa’i rgyud
- The Tantra That Resolves All Secrets
- Guhyasarvacchindatantra
The Tantra of the Inconceivable Secrets of Cakrasaṃvara
འཁོར་ལོ་སྡོམ་པའི་གསང་བ་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · 'khor lo sdom pa'i gsang ba bsam gyis mi khyab pa'i rgyud/
cakrasaṃvaraguhyācintyatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal 'khor lo sdom pa'i gsang ba bsam gyis mi khyab pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīcakrasaṃvaraguhyācintyatantrarāja
Equal to the Sky
ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པ། · nam mkha’ dang mnyam pa
Khasama
Summary
Equal to the Sky belongs to a series of texts known as the rali tantras, which are primarily associated with the Cakrasaṃvara system but incorporate themes that are also prominent in the Hevajra and Kālacakra systems. The tantra presents a discourse in which the Buddha addresses three types of ḍākinī, explains their true natures, and correlates them with the practitioner’s physical and subtle body. A primary concern of this text is to explain advanced yogic practices performed during the completion stage (Skt. utpannakrama/niṣpannakrama; Tib. rdzogs rim) in the Yoginī Tantras, but it also treats a wide range of topics including astrology, sacred geography, and tantric hermeneutics. The result is a text which, while very dense and quite difficult to engage with, rewards the reader by bringing together an astonishingly vast range of topics concerning both the theory and practice of Buddhist tantra.
Title variants
- The Glorious King of Tantras “Equal to the Sky”
- Śrīkhasamatantrarāja
- dpal nam mkha’ dang mnyam pa’i rgyud kyi rgyal po
- དཔལ་ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- khasamatantra
- dpal nam mkha’ dang mnyam pa’i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- nam mkha’ dang mnyam pa’i rgyud/
The Tantra of the Great Khasama
ནམ་མཁའ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · nam mkha' chen po'i rgyud/
mahākhasamatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal nam mkha' chen po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīmahākhasamatantrarāja
The Tantra of Body, Speech, and Mind
སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད། · sku gsung thugs kyi rgyud/
kāyavākcittatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal sku gsung thugs kyi rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīkāyavākcittatantrarāja
The Tantra of the Jewel Garland
རིན་ཆེན་འཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · rin chen 'phreng ba'i rgyud/
ratnamālātantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rin chen 'phreng ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīratnamālātantrarāja
The Tantra of the Great Vow
དམ་ཚིག་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · dam tshig chen po'i rgyud/
samayatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīmahāsamayatantrarājanāma
- dpal dam tshig chen po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
The Tantra of Great Power
སྟོབས་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱུད། · stobs po che'i rgyud/
mahābalatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal stobs po che'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīmahābalatantrarājanāma
The Secret Tantra of Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes gsang ba'i rgyud/
jñānaguhyatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrījñānaguhyatantrarāja
- dpal ye shes gsang ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
The Tantra of the Garland of Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་འཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes 'phreng ba'i rgyud/
jñānamālātantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes 'phreng ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrījñānamālātantrarāja
The Tantra of Blazing Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་འབར་བའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes 'bar ba'i rgyud/
jñānajvālatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes 'bar ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrījñānajvālatantrarāja
The Tantra of the Garland of the Moon
ཟླ་བའི་འཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · zla ba'i 'phreng ba'i rgyud/
candramālātantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal zla ba'i 'phreng ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīcandramālātantrarāja
The Tantra of the Blazing Jewel
རིན་ཆེན་འབར་བའི་རྒྱུད། · rin chen 'bar ba'i rgyud/
ratnajvālatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rin chen 'bar ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- śrīratnajvālatantrarājanāma
The Tantra of the Disk of the Sun
ཉི་མའི་འཁོར་ལོའི་རྒྱུད། · nyi ma'i 'khor lo'i rgyud/
sūryacakratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal nyi ma'i 'khor lo'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- śrīsūryacakratantrarājanāma
The Tantra of the King of Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes rgyal po'i rgyud/
jñānarājatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes rgyal po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrījñānarājatantrarāja
The Secret Tantra of Vajraḍāka
རྡོ་རྗེ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje mkha' 'gro gsang ba'i rgyud/
vajraḍākaguhyatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rdo rje mkha' 'gro gsang ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīvajraḍākaguhyatantrarāja
The Secret Tantra of the Blazing Fire
གསང་བ་མེ་འབར་བའི་རྒྱུད། · gsang ba me 'bar ba'i rgyud/
jvālāgniguhyatantrarāja
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal gsang ba me 'bar ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrījvālāgniguhyatantrarāja
The Secret Tantra of Ambrosia
གསང་བ་བདུད་རྩིའི་རྒྱུད། · gsang ba bdud rtsi'i rgyud/
amṛtaguhyatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal gsang ba bdud rtsi'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrī-amṛtaguhyatantrarāja
The Tantra of the Ornament of the Charnel Ground
དུར་ཁྲོད་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · dur khrod rgyan gyi rgyud/
śmaśānālaṃkāratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal dur khrod rgyan gyi rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīśmaśānālaṃkāratantrarāja
Tantra of the Vajra King
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje rgyal po'i rgyud/
vajrarājamahātantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rdo rje rgyal po chen po'i rgyud/
- śrīvajrarājamahātantra
The Tantra of the Mind of Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་བསམ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes bsam pa'i rgyud/
jñānāśayatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes bsam pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrījñānāśayatantrarāja
The Tantra, King of Desire
ཆགས་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · chags pa'i rgyal po'i rgyud/
rāgarājatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal chags pa'i rgyal po rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīrāgarājatantrarāja
The Tantra of the Protection by the Ḍākinīs
མཁའ་འགྲོའི་མའི་སྡོམ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · mkha' 'gro'i ma'i sdom pa'i rgyud/
ḍākinīsaṃvaratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal mkha' 'gro'i ma'i sdom pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- śrīḍākinīsaṃvaratantrarājanāma
The Tantra of the Garland of Fire
མེའི་འཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · me'i 'phreng ba'i rgyud/
agnimālātantrarāja
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal me'i 'phreng ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrī-agnimālātantrarāja
The Tantra of the Secret Blaze of the Ḍākinī
མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་གསང་བ་འབར་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · mkha' 'gro ma gsang ba 'bar ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
ḍākinīguhyajvālatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal mkha' 'gro ma gsang ba 'bar ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīḍākinīguhyajvālatantrarāja
The Tantra of Vajrabhairava’s Destruction
འཇིགས་བྱེད་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་པའི་རྒྱུད། · 'jigs byed rnam par 'joms pa'i rgyud/
vajrabhairavavidāraṇatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīvajrabhairavavidāraṇatantrarāja
- dpal rdo rje 'jigs byed rnam par 'joms pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
The Tantra of the Mighty King of Gnosis
སྟོབས་ཆེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · stobs chen ye shes rgyal po'i rgyud/
mahābalajñānarājatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal stobs chen ye shes rgyal po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīmahābalajñānarājatantrarāja
The Tantra, Protection by the Web of Vajra Accomplishments
རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲུབ་པ་དྲ་བའི་སྡོམ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje grub pa dra ba'i sdom pa'i rgyud/
vajrasiddhajālasaṃvaratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rdo rje grub pa dra ba'i sdom pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrīvajrasiddhajālasaṃvaratantrarāja
The Tantra of the Meaning of the Essential Nature of the Mind
སྙིང་པོ་དོན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · snying po don gyi rgyud/
cittagarbhārthatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi thugs kyi snying po don gyi rgyud/
- sarvatathāgatacittagarbhārthatantra
The Tantra of the Amazing Ornament of the Charnel Ground
དུར་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · dur khrod kyi rgyan rmad du byung ba'i rgyud/
cakrasaṃvaratantrarājādbhutaśmaśānālaṃkāra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal 'khor lo sdom pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po dur khrod kyi rgyan rmad du byung ba/
- śrīcakrasaṃvaratantrarājādbhutaśmāsānālaṃkāranāma
The Unsullied, a Sovereign Tantra
རྒྱུད་རྒྱལ་རྙོག་པ་མེད་པ། · rgyud rgyal rnyog pa med pa/
anāvilatantrarāja
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rgyud kyi rgyal po rnyog pa med pa zhes bya ba/
- anāvilatantrarājanāma
The Tantra of Śaṃvara Who is Equal to Space
བདེ་མཆོག་ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · bde mchog nam mkha' dang mnyam pa'i rgyud/
śaṃvarakhasamatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal bde mchog nam mkha' dang mnyam pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- śrīśaṃvarakhasamatantrarājanāma
The Tantra of the Protector, the Arising of Secret Accomplishments
མགོན་པོ་གསང་བ་དངོས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · mgon po gsang ba dngos grub byung ba'i rgyud/
vajramahākālakrodhanātharahasyasiddhibhavatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- The Tantra of the Wrathful Protector Vajra Mahākāla, the Arising of Secret Accomplishments
- śrīvajramahākālakrodhanātharahasyasiddhibhavatantranāma
- 《金剛大黑忿怒尊秘密成就出生怛特羅》
- dpal rdo rje nag po chen po khros pa'i mgon po gsang ba dngos grub byung ba zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
The Hevajra Tantra [Part 1: Vajragarbha's Manifest Awakening]
ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྒྱུད། · kye'i rdo rje'i rgyud/
hevajratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- The Sovereign Tantra of Hevajra, He Who Affords Protection Through Nets of Ḍākinīs
- hevajratantrarājānāma
- kye'i rdo rje zhes bya ba rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- The sovereign part known as "Vajragarbha's Manifest Awakening" from "The Sovereign Tantra of Hevajra, He Who Affords Protection Through Nets of Ḍākinīs"
- hevajradākinījālasaṃvaratantrarāja
- dvikalparāja (1)
- śrīhevajraḍākinījālasamvaravajragarbhābhisaṃbodhināmaprathamaḥ kalparājā
- kye'i rdo rje mkha' 'gro ma dra ba'i sdom pa las rdo rje snying po mngon par byang chub pa zhes bya ba brtag pa'i rgyal po/
- brtag pa gnyis/___brtag gnyis___(1)
- The eleven chapters of this text together with the twelve chapters of the following one, Toh 418, together make up the root tantra known as the Two-Part Hevajra Tantra (Skt. dvikalparāja; Tib. brtag pa gnyis), traditionally considered to be an abridgement of a lost larger work in five hundred thousand stanzas, comprising thirty-two parts.
The Hevajra Tantra [Part 2: Illusion]
ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྒྱུད། · kye'i rdo rje'i rgyud/
hevajratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- hevajratantrarājanāma
- kye'i rdo rje zhes bya ba rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- The Sovereign Tantra of Hevajra, He Who Affords Protection Through Nets of Ḍākinīs
- The great sovereign tantra known as "The Part on Illusion," from the two-part "Sovereign Tantra of Hevajra Himself, He Who Affords Protection Through Nets of Ḍākinīs," extracted from the thirty-two parts.
- hevajraḍākinījālasaṃvaratantrarāja
- dvikalparāja (2)
- mahātantrarājamāyākalpa dvitīyaḥ
- kye'i rdo rje mkha' 'gro ma dra ba'i sdom pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po sgyu ma'i brtag pa zhes bya ba brtag pa sum cu rtsa gnyis las phyung ba brtag pa gnyis kyi bdag nyid kye'i rdo rje mkha' 'gro ma dra ba'i sdom pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- brtag pa gnyis/___brtag gnyis___(2)
- The twelve chapters of this text together with the eleven chapters of the preceding one, Toh 417, together make up the root tantra known as the Two-Part Hevajra Tantra (Skt. dvikalparāja; Tib. brtag pa gnyis), traditionally considered to be an abridgement of a lost larger work in five hundred thousand stanzas, comprising thirty-two parts.
The Tantra of the Vajra Cage
རྡོ་རྗེ་གུར་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje gur gyi rgyud/
ḍākinīvajrapañjaratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- āryaḍākinīvajrapañjaramahātantrarājākalpanāma
- 'phags pa mkha' 'gro ma rdo rje gur zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po'i brtag pa/
- 《金剛帳續》
Tantra of the Tilaka (Forehead Mark) of Mahāmudrā
ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཐིག་ལེའི་རྒྱུད། · phyag rgya chen po'i thig le'i rgyud/
mahāmudrātilakatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīmahāmudrātilakanāmamahāyoginītantrarājādhipati
- 《大印契明點大瑜祇母怛特羅王主》
- dpal phyag rgya chen po'i thig le zhes bya ba rnal 'byor ma chen mo'i rgyud kyi rgyal po'i mnga' bdag/
The Tantra of the Essence of Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes snying po'i rgyud/
jñānagarbhatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes snying po zhes bya ba rnal 'byor ma chen mo'i rgyud kyi rgyal po'i rgyal po/
- śrījñānagarbhanāmayoginīmahātantrarājātirāja
The Tilaka (Forehead Mark) of Gnosis, a Yoginī Tantra
ཡེ་ཤེས་ཐིག་ལེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes thig le rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud/
jñānatilakayoginītantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes thig le rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po mchog tu rmad du byung ba zhes bya ba/
- śrījñānatilakayoginītantrarājaparamahādbhutanāma
The Tantra of the Lamp of Reality
དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་སྒྲོན་མའི་རྒྱུད། · de kho na nyid sgron ma'i rgyud/
tattvapradīpatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal de kho na nyid kyi sgron ma zhes bya ba rnal 'byor chen mo'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrītattvapradīpanāmamahāyoginītantrarājā
The Tantra of Buddhakapāla
སངས་རྒྱས་ཐོད་པའི་རྒྱུད། · sangs rgyas thod pa'i rgyud/
buddhakapālatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal sangs rgyas thod pa zhes bya ba rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- śrībuddhakapālanāmayoginītantrarāja
The Mahāmāyā Tantra
སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྒྱུད། · sgyu ’phrul chen mo’i rgyud
Mahāmāyātantra
Summary
The Mahāmāyātantra, named after its principal deity Mahāmāyā, is a tantra of the Yoginītantra class in which Mahāmāyā presides over a maṇḍala populated primarily by yoginīs and ḍākinīs. The practitioner engages the antinomian power of these beings through a threefold system of yoga involving the visualization of the maṇḍala deities, the recitation of their mantras, and the direct experience of absolute reality. As well as practices involving the manipulation of the body’s subtle energies, the Mahāmāyātantra incorporates the transgressive practices that are the hallmark of the earlier tantric systems such as the Guhyasamājatantra, specifically the ingestion of sexual fluids and other polluting substances. The tantra promises the grace of Mahāmāyā in the form of mundane and transcendent spiritual attainments to those who approach it with diligence and devotion.
Title variants
- དཔལ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- dpal sgyu ’phrul chen mo’i rgyud kyi rgyal po
- The King of Tantras, the Glorious Mahāmāyā
- Śrīmahāmāyātantrarājanāma
The Tantra of Vajrārali
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཨཱ་ར་ལིའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje A ra li'i rgyud/
vajrāralitantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rdo rje A ra li zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po/
- vajrāralimahātantrarājanāma
The Tantra of Rigyārali
རི་གི་ཨ་ར་ལིའི་རྒྱུད། · ri gi a ra li'i rgyud/
rigyāralitantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- ri gi a ra li'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- rigyāralitantrarājanāma
The Sovereign Tantra in Four Parts
རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་གདན་བཞི་པ། · rgyud kyi rgyal po gdan bzhi pa/
catuḥpīṭhatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po dpal gdan bzhi pa zhes bya ba/
- śrīcatuḥpīṭhamāhayoginītantrarājanāma
The Tantra in Four Parts, the Mantra Portion
སྔགས་ཀྱི་ཆའི་རྒྱུད། · sngags kyi cha'i rgyud/
mantrāṃśatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal gdan bzhi pa'i bshad pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po sngags kyi cha zhes bya ba/
- The Sovereign Explanatory Tantra in Four Parts, the Mantra Portion
- catuḥpīṭhākhyātatantrarājamantrāṃśanāma
The Explanatory Tantra on the Four Parts
གདན་བཞི་རྣམ་བཤད། · gdan bzhi rnam bshad/
catuḥpīṭhavyākhyātantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal gdan bzhi pa'i rnam par bshad pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- śrīcatuḥpīṭhavyākhyātantrarājanāma
The Tantra of Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa
ཁྲོ་བོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · khro bo chen po’i rgyud
Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantram
Summary
Written around the tenth or the eleventh century ᴄᴇ, in the late Mantrayāna period, The Tantra of Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa represents the flowering of the Yoginītantra genre. The tantra offers instructions on how to attain the wisdom state of Buddha Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa through the practice of the four joys. The tantra covers a range of practices and philosophical perspectives of late tantric Buddhism, including the development stage, the completion stage, the use of mantras, and a number of magical rites and rituals. The text is quite unique with its tribute to and apotheosis of women and, in this regard, probably has few parallels anywhere else in world literature. It is written in the spirit of great sincerity and devotion, and it is this very spirit that mitigates, and at the same time empowers, the text’s stark imagery and sometimes shocking practices. This text certainly calls for an open mind.
Title variants
- དཔལ་གཏུམ་པོ་ཁྲོ་བོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔའ་བོ་གཅིག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།
- dpal gtum po khro bo chen po’i rgyud kyi rgyal po dpa’ bo gcig pa zhes bya ba
- The Glorious Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa Tantra “The Sole Hero”
- Ekallavīrākhyaśrīcaṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantram
- 大忿怒續
The Tantra of the Practice of Acala
མི་གཡོ་བའི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱུད། · mi g.yo ba'i rtog pa'i rgyud/
acalakalpatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- 'phags pa mi g.yo ba'i rtog pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- āryācalakalpatantrarāja
The Secret Tantra of the Mantras for the Wrathful Kings
ཁྲོ་བོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་གསང་སྔགས་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · khro bo'i rgyal po thams cad gsang sngags gsang ba'i rgyud/
krodharājasarvamantraguhya
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- khro bo'i rgyal po thams cad gsang sngags gsang ba'i rgyud ces bya ba/
- krodharājasarvamantraguhyatantranāma
The Secret Acalatantra
མི་གཡོ་བའི་གསང་རྒྱུད། · mi g.yo ba'i gsang rgyud/
acalaguhyatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- 'phags pa mi g.yo ba'i gsang rgyud chen po/
- āryācalamahāguhyatantra
The Vajrāmṛta
རྡོ་རྗེ་བདུད་རྩི། · rdo rje bdud rtsi/
vajrāmṛtatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rdo rje bdud rtsi'i rgyud/
The Fifty Verses on the Guardians of the World
འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོའི་ལྔ་བཅུ་པ། · 'jig rten mgon po'i lnga bcu pa/
kulalokanāthapañcadaśaka
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rigs kyi 'jig rten mgon po'i lnga bcu pa zhes bya ba/
- kulalokanāthapañcadaśakanāma
- [Alternatively, following the Sanskrit, "The Fifteen Verses...", but the Tibetan text contains 50 verses. The text is an extract from the pad+ma 'bar ba'i rgyud chen po.]
The Practice Manual of Noble Tārā Kurukullā
འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཀུ་རུ་ཀུལླེའི་རྟོག་པ། · ’phags ma sgrol ma ku ru kul+le’i rtog pa
Āryatārākurukullākalpa
Summary
The Practice Manual of Noble Tārā Kurukullā is the most comprehensive single work on the female Buddhist deity Kurukullā. It is also the only canonical scripture to focus on this deity. The text’s importance is therefore commensurate with the importance of the goddess herself, who is the chief Buddhist deity of magnetizing, in particular the magnetizing which takes the form of enthrallment.
The text is a treasury of ritual practices connected with enthrallment and similar magical acts—practices which range from formal sādhana to traditional homa ritual, and to magical methods involving herbs, minerals, etc. The text’s varied contents are presented as a multi-layered blend of the apotropaic and the soteriological, as well as the practical and the philosophical, where these complementary opposites combine together into a genuinely spiritual Buddhist work.
Title variants
- ཀུ་རུ་ཀུལླེའི་རྟོག་པ།
- ku ru kul+le’i rtog pa
- The Practice Manual of Kurukullā
- Kurukullākalpa
Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage
སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ། · sgrol ma la phyag ’tshal nyi shu rtsa gcig gis bstod pa
Namastāraikaviṃśatistotra
Summary
Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage is a liturgy that consists of twenty-seven verses of praise and reverence dedicated to the deity Tārā. The first twenty-one verses are at once a series of homages to the twenty-one forms of Tārā and a poetic description of her physical features, postures, and qualities. The remaining six verses describe how and when the praise should be recited and the benefits of its recitation.
Title variants
- sgrol ma la phyag ’tshal nyi shu rtsa gcig gis bstod pa phan yon dang bcas pa
- སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་ཕན་ཡོན་དང་བཅས་པ།
- Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage and Their Benefits
- Namastāraikaviṃśatistotraguṇahitasahita
- Tārānamaskāraikaviṃśatistotra
A Section of the Root Tantra of Vajrakīlaya
ཕུར་པ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དུམ་བུ། · phur pa rtsa ba'i rgyud kyi dum bu/
vajrakīlayamūlatantrakhaṇḍa
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rdo rje phur pa rtsa ba'i rgyud kyi dum bu/
The Tantra of Mahākāla
ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · nag po chen po'i rgyud/
mahākālatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- mahākālatantrarājanāma
- nag po chen po zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- 《大黑天續》
The Extant Khasama Tantra
ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་རྒྱུད། · nam mkha' dang mnyam pa'i rgyud/
yathālabdhakhasamatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- ji bzhin brnyes pa nam mkha' dang mnyam pa zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
- yathālabdhakhasamatantranāma
- bhagavatīsvedāyāyāthālabdhatantrarāja
- ji bzhin brnyes pa nam mkha' dang mnyam pa'i rgyud/
Guhyasamāja
གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། · gsang ba 'dus pa/
guhyasamāja
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- sarvatathāgatakāyavākcittarahasyaguhyasamājanāmamahākalparāja
- 《最上秘密大教王經》
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi sku gsung thugs kyi gsang chen gsang ba 'dus pa zhes bya ba brtag pa'i rgyal po chen po/
The Supplementary Tantra
རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ། · rgyud phyi ma/
[no Sanskrit title]
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- The Supplementary Tantra (to the Guhyasamāja)
- The eighteenth chapter of the Guhysamājatantra, treated as a separate text.
The Tantra, the Prophecy of the Intent
དགོངས་པ་ལུང་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱུད། · dgongs pa lung bstan pa'i rgyud/
saṃdhivyākaraṇatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dgongs pa lung bstan pa zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
- saṃdhivyākaraṇanāmatantra
The Garland of Vajras
རྡོ་རྗེ་འཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje 'phreng ba'i rgyud/
vajramālābhidhānamahāyogatantrasarvatantrahṛdayarahasyavibhaṅga
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīvajramālābhidhānamahāyogatantrasarvatantrahṛdayarahasyavibhaṅganāma
- 《吉祥金剛鬘》
- rnal 'byor chen po'i rgyud dpal rdo rje 'phreng ba mngon par brjod pa rgyud thams cad kyi snying po gsang ba rnam par phye ba zhes bya ba/
The Questions of the Four Goddesses
ལྷ་མོ་བཞིས་ཡོངས་ཞུས། · lha mo bzhis yongs zhus/
caturdevīparipṛcchā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- lha mo bzhis yongs su zhus pa/
The Tantra, Compendium of Vajra Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་རྒྱུད། · ye shes rdo rje kun las btus pa'i rgyud/
vajrajñānasamuccayatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- ye shes rdo rje kun las btus pa zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
- vajrajñānasamuccayanāmatantra
The Tantra of Tārāyoginī
སྒྲོལ་མ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་རྒྱུད། · sgrol ma rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud/
tārāyoginitantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- phrin las thams cad 'byung ba'i sgrol ma 'dus pa don dam pa zhes bya ba rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- samājaparamārthasarvakarmodayanāmatārāyoginītantrarāja
- [Note: only in late Degé printings; not in Degé par phud, nor in Narthang, Peking, Cone, or Lhasa Kangyurs. Urga 745.]
The Supplementary Tantra of Tārāyoginī
སྒྲོལ་མ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ། · sgrol ma rnal 'byor ma'i rgyud phyi ma/
samājaparamārthasarvakarmodayottaratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [Note: only in late Degé printings; not in Degé par phud, nor in Narthang, Peking, Cone, or Lhasa Kangyurs. Urga 745A.]
- samājaparamārthasarvakarmodayottaratantrarāja
- phrin las thams cad 'byung ba 'dus pa don dam pa las phyi ma'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
Compendium of Vajra Gnosis
ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཀུན་ལས་བསྡུས་པ། · ye shes rdo rje kun las bsdus pa/
jñānavajrasamuccaya
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal ye shes rdo rje kun las bsdus pa/
- śrījñānavajrasamuccaya
The Tantra of the Ornament of the Vajra Essence
རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje snying po rgyan gyi rgyud/
vajrahṛdayālaṃkāratantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīvajrahṛdayālaṃkāratantranāma
- dpal rdo rje snying po rgyan gyi rgyud ces bya ba
Victory by Means of Non-dual Sameness, a Sovereign Practice
གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པ་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · gnyis su med pa mnyam pa nyid rnam par rgyal ba'i rtog pa'i rgyal po/
advayasamatāvijayākhyākalpa
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- āryādvayasamatāvijayākhyākalpamahārāja
- 'phags pa gnyis su med pa mnyam pa nyid rnam par rgyal ba zhes bya ba'i rtog pa'i rgyal po chen po/
- 《無二平等勝儀軌大王》（大正藏：《佛說無二平等最上瑜伽大教王經》）
- gnyis med rnam rgyal/
The Beginning Chapter of the Supremely Great Vajra
རྡོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་མཆོག་ཆེན་པོ་བརྟག་པ་དང་པོ། · rdo rje dpal mchog chen po brtag pa dang po/
vajraśrīvaramahākalpādi
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [Note: see alternative short-form title for previous text, Toh 452, suggesting that this text is considered a longer form of it.]
- śrīsarvatathāgataguhyatantrayogamahārājādvayasamatāvijayanāmavajraśrīvaramahākalpādi
- gnyis med pa'i rnam rgyal chen mo/
- dpal de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi gsang ba rnal 'byor chen po rnam par rgyal ba zhes bya ba mnyam pa nyid gnyis su med pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po rdo rje dpal mchog chen po brtag pa dang po/
The Tantra of Vajrapāṇi's Triple Dreadful Training
ཕྱག་རྡོར་དྲག་པོ་གསུམ་འདུལ་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · phyag rdor drag po gsum 'dul gyi rgyud/
nīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇirudratrivinayatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- 'phags pa lag na rdo rje gos sngon po can drag po gsum 'dul ba zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
- āryanīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇirudratrivinayatantranāma
The Triple Dreadful Taming, a Division of the Secret Tantras
རྒྱུད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་འབྱེད་དྲག་པོ་གསུམ་འདུལ། · rgyud rnams kyi rnam 'byed drag po gsum 'dul/
vibhaṅgo guhyatantrāṇāṃ trirudradamana
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- gsang ba'i rgyud rnams kyi rnam par 'byed pa drag po gsum 'dul zhes bya ba/
- vibhaṅgo guhyatantrāṇāṃ trirudradamananāma
The Tantra of the Vajra Staff of Vajrapāṇi
ཕྱག་རྡོར་རྡོ་རྗེ་བེ་ཅོན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། · phyag rdor rdo rje be con gyi rgyud/
vajrapāṇinīlāmbaravidhivajradaṇḍatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- lag na rdo rje gos sngon po can gyi cho ga rdo rje be con gyi rgyud/
The Tantra of Vajrapāṇi, Conquest of the Triple World
ཕྱག་རྡོར་ཁམས་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་རྒྱུད། · phyag rdor khams gsum rnam par rgyal ba'i rgyud/
nīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇivajraphaṇakatantratrilokavijaya
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- lag na rdo rje gos sngon po can rdo rje gdengs pa'i rgyud khams gsum las rnam par rgyal ba zhes bya ba/
- nīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇivajraphaṇakatantratrilokavijayanāma
The Secret Tantra, The Wrathful Thought of the Vajra
རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུམ་པོ་ཐུགས་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje gtum po thugs gsang ba'i rgyud/
vajracaṇḍacittaguhyatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rdo rje gtum po thugs gsang ba'i rgyud/
- śrīvajracaṇḍacittaguhyatantra
The Later Secret Tantra, The Wrathful Thought of the Vajra
རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུམ་པོ་ཐུགས་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མ། · rdo rje gtum po thugs gsang ba'i rgyud phyi ma/
vajracaṇḍacittaguhyatantrottara
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rdo rje gtum po thugs gsang ba'i rgyud phyi ma/
- śrīvajracaṇḍacittaguhyatantrottara
The Supplementary Tantra to the Later Secret Tantra, The Wrathful Thought of the Vajra
རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུམ་པོ་ཐུགས་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཕྱི་མའི་ཕྱི་མ། · rdo rje gtum po thugs gsang ba'i rgyud phyi ma'i phyi ma/
vajracaṇḍacittaguhyatantrarottarottara
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal rdo rje gtum po thugs gsang ba'i rgyud phyi ma'i phyi ma/
- śrīvajracaṇḍacittaguhyatantrarottarottara
The Dhāraṇī for Seeing [Vajrapāṇi] in Dream
རྨི་ལམ་མཐོང་བའི་གཟུངས། · rmi lam mthong ba'i gzungs/
[no Sanskrit title]
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rmi lam mthong ba zhes bya ba'i gzungs/
- [Note: of the two instances of this short dhāraṇī, the one in the Action Tantra section (Toh 460a) is found in all printings of the Degé Kangyur but was not identified in the original Tōhoku catalogue.]
The Tantra of the Flame of the Vajra
རྡོ་རྗེ་མེ་ལྕེའི་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje me lce'i rgyud/
nīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇiyakṣamahārudravajrānalajihvatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- phyag na rdo rje gos sngon po can gnod sbyin drag po chen po rdo rje me lce'i rgyud/
- nīlāmbaradharavajrapāṇiyakṣamahārudravajrānalajihvatantranāma
- The Tantra of the Flame of the Vajra, the great fierce yakṣa, Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi
The Dhāraṇī of the Vajra Flame
རྡོ་རྗེ་ལྕེ་དབབ་པའི་གཟུངས། · rdo rje lce dbab pa'i gzungs/
vajrahṛdayavajrajihvānalanāmadhāraṇī
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rdo rje snying po rdo rje lce dbab pa zhes bya ba'i gzungs/
The Secret Revelation of Vajrapāṇi
ཕྱག་རྡོར་གསང་བ་བསྟན། · phyag rdor gsang ba bstan/
guhyavajrapāṇyabhideśa
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal phyag na rdo rje gsang ba bstan pa'i rgyud/
- śrīguhyavajrapāṇyabhideśatantranāma
- [in Toh:] śrīvajrapāṇiguhyābhideśatantranāma
The Tantra of the Secret Revelation of Vajrapāṇi
ཕྱག་རྡོར་གསང་བ་མངོན་བསྟན་རྒྱུད། · phyag rdor gsang ba mngon bstan rgyud/
vajrapāṇiguhyābhideśatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- bcom ldan 'das phyag na rdo rje gsang ba mngon par bstan pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
- bhagavadvajrapāṇiguhyābhideśatantrarājanāma
The Tantra of the Wrathful Vajra-Bliss
རྡོ་རྗེ་བདེ་ཁྲོས་རྒྱུད། · rdo rje bde khros rgyud/
vajrasukhakrodhatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rdo rje bde khros rgyud kyi rgyal po/
- vajrasukhakrodhatantrarāja
The Net of Magical Illusion
སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲ་བ། · sgyu 'phrul dra ba/
māyājāla
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po sgyu 'phrul dra ba zhes bya ba/
- māyājālamahātantrarājanāma
The Tantra of Black Yamāri
གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་ནག་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · gshin rje gshed nag po'i rgyud/
kṛṣnayamāritantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- sarvatathāgatakāyavakcittakṛṣnayamārināmatantra
- de bzhin gshegs pa thams cad kyi sku gsung thugs gshin rje gshed nag po zhes bya ba'i rgyud/
The Tantra of the Great Vajrabhairava
འཇིགས་བྱེད་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · 'jigs byed chen po'i rgyud/
vajramahābhairavatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīvajramahābhairavanāmatantra
- dpal rdo rje 'jigs byed chen po'i rgyud ces bya ba/
The Tantra of Black Yamāri in Three Chapters
གཤིན་རྗེའི་གཤེད་ནག་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྟོག་པ་གསུམ་པ། · gshin rje'i gshed nag po'i rgyud kyi rtog pa gsum pa/
kṛṣṇayamāritantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīkṛṣṇayamāritantrarājatrikalpanāma
- dpal gshin rje'i gshed nag po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po rtog pa gsum pa zhes bya ba/
The Tantra of the Practice of Vajrabhairava
འཇིགས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱུད། · 'jigs byed kyi rtog pa'i rgyud/
vajrabhairavakalpatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīvajrabhairavakalpatantrarāja
- dpal rdo rje 'jigs byed kyi rtog pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
The Practice of the Legend
གཏམ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྟོག་པ། · gtam rgyud kyi rtog pa/
[no Sanskrit title]
The Ritual Practices of the Muskrat
ཏེའུ་ལོ་པའི་ཆོ་ག་ · te'u lo pa'i cho ga
chucchundarakalpa
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- chucchundarakalpanāma
- te'u lo pa'i cho ga zhes bya ba/
The Cycle Accomplishing All the Actions of Black Yamāri, a Sovereign Tantra
གཤིན་རྗེའི་གཤེད་ནག་པོའི་ལས་ཐམས་ཅད་གྲུབ་པར་བྱེད་པ་འཁོར་ལོའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · gshin rje'i gshed nag po'i las thams cad grub par byed pa 'khor lo'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
yamārikṛṣṇakarmasarvacakrasiddhikara
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- yamārikṛṣṇakarmasarvacakrasiddhikaranāmatantrarāja
- gshin rje'i gshed dgra nag po'i 'khor lo las thams cad grub par byed pa zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
The Tantra of Red Yamāri
གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་དམར་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · gshin rje gshed dmar po'i rgyud/
raktayamāritantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīraktayamāritantrarājanāma
- dpal gshin rje gshed dmar po zhes bya ba'i rgyud kyi rgyal po/
The Tantra of Red Yamāri
གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་དམར་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · gshin rje gshed dmar po'i rgyud/
raktayamāritantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- śrīmadraktayamāritantrarājanāma
- dpal ldan gshin rje gshed dmar po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/
The Tantra of Ekajaṭa
རལ་པ་གཅིག་པའི་རྒྱུད། · ral pa gcig pa'i rgyud/
ekajaṭatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal bcom ldan 'das ral pa gcig pa'i brtag pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po zhes bya ba/
- śrībhagavadekajaṭamahātantrarājanāma
The Tantra of the Secret Ornament of the Moon
ཟླ་གསང་ཐིག་ལེའི་རྒྱུད། · zla gsang thig le'i rgyud/
candraguhyatilakatantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- dpal zla gsang thig le zhes bya ba rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po/
- śrīcandraguhyatilakanāmamahātantrarāja
The Tantra of Red Yamāri
གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་དམར་པོའི་རྒྱུད། · gshin rje gshed dmar po'i rgyud/
raktayamāritantra
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- [Note: only in late Degé printings; not in Degé par phud, nor in Narthang, Peking, Cone, or Lhasa Kangyurs. Urga 475.]
- śrīmadraktayamāritantrarājanāma
- dpal ldan gshin rje gshed dmar po'i rgyud kyi rgyal po zhes bya ba/