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Welcome to the searchable catalog of the Tsadra Foundation Research Library in Boulder, Colorado. This is a private archive of Buddhist studies material to be used internally by Tsadra Foundation, its staff and fellow translators.
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2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Smin gling zab gter gar dbang thugs rje chen po bde gshegs kun 'dus kyi chos skor gyi 'don cha rnams
Gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje, revealer. Smin gling zab gter gar dbang thugs rje chen po bde gshegs kun 'dus kyi chos skor gyi 'don cha rnams. Solukhumbu, Nepal: Thupten Dongak Choeling Monastery Publications, 2025.
Translations from 2023
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Translations from 2022
Total: 1
2022
Books · Translations, Digital Publications
The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (Doctor, A.)
Dahl, Cortland, Catherine Dalton, Hilary Herdman, Heidi Koppl, James Gentry, and Andreas Doctor (Dharmachakra Translation Committee), trans. The Play in Full (Lalitavistara). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh95.html.
Newly Added: Books
2025
Books · Translations, Academic Publications, Scholarly Editions
The Dawn of Physical Yoga
Orofino, Giacomella., trans. The Dawn of Physical Yoga: Dispelling the Hindrances to Immortality. Serie Orientale Roma 44. Series Minor 104. Naples: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 2025.
Newly Added: Tibetan Publications
Published 2021 & 2022
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2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Smin gling zab gter gar dbang thugs rje chen po bde gshegs kun 'dus kyi chos skor gyi 'don cha rnams
Gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje, revealer. Smin gling zab gter gar dbang thugs rje chen po bde gshegs kun 'dus kyi chos skor gyi 'don cha rnams. Solukhumbu, Nepal: Thupten Dongak Choeling Monastery Publications, 2025.
2011
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Chos mngon pa bye brag tu bshad pa chen po - Vol 10
chos mngon pa'i bstan bcos ye shes la 'jug pa chos mngon pa bye brag tu bshad pa chen po, Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang , ཆོས་མངོན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་འཇུག་པ། ཆོས་མངོན་པ་བྱེ་བྲག་ཏུ་བཤད་པ་ཆེན་པོ།, ཀྲུང་གོའི་བོད་རིག་པ་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་། , Entering the Wisdom Commentary of Abhidharma The Great Detailed Explanation of Abhidharma. Vol.10 of 10. Beijing: China's Tibetology Publishing House, 2011.
Newly Added: Articles
2024
Articles · Journal Articles
Why is Newar Buddhism Largely Ignored in Buddhist Studies? Protestantism, the Narrative of Decline, and the Position of Invisibility
Grimes, Samuel M. "Why is Newar Buddhism Largely Ignored in Buddhist Studies? Protestantism, the Narrative of Decline, and the Position of Invisibility." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 94, no. 4 (2024): 603-624.
2025
Articles · Translations, Editorial Content
The Mirror Clarifying the Results of Karma: A Narrative Commentary on the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
Forgues, Gregory, and Khenpo Könchok Tamphel, trans. "The Mirror Clarifying the Results of Karma: A Narrative Commentary on the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra." By Dbang phyug rin chen. Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, June 24, 2025.
2006
Articles · Chapters in a Book
New Light on an Old Friend: PT 849 Reconsidered
Kapstein, Matthew. "New Light on an Old Friend: PT 849 Reconsidered." In Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in its Formative Period 900–1400, edited by Ronald Davidson and Christian Wedemeyer, 9–30. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
2006
Articles · Chapters in a Book
The Legend of Cig car ba Criticism in Tibet: A List of Six Cig car ba Titles in the Chos ’ byung me tog snying po of Nyang Nyi ma ‘od zer (12th century)
Meinert, Carmen. “The Legend of Cig car ba Criticism in Tibet: A List of Six Cig car ba Titles in the Chos ’byung me tog snying po of Nyang Nyi ma ‘od zer (12th century)". In Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in its Formative Period 900–1400, edited by Ronald Davidson and Christian Wedemeyer, 31–54. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
2016
Articles · Journal Articles
Some Remarks on Sthiramati and his Putative Authorship of the Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā, the Sūtrālaṃkāravṛttibhāṣya and the Triṃśikāvijñaptibhāṣya
Kramer, Jowita. "Some Remarks on Sthiramati and his Putative Authorship of the Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā, the *Sūtrālaṃkāravṛttibhāṣya and the Triṃśikāvijñaptibhāṣya." Buddhist Studies Review 33.1-2 (2016): 47–63.
Newly Added: Dissertations
2009
Dissertations · BA Honors Thesis
A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange
Lam, Raymond Sze Hon H. "A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange." BA Honors thesis, University of Queensland, 2009.
2014
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
Harris, Stephen. "Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryāvatāra)." PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2014.
1989
Dissertations · PhD diss.
The Cultural Translation of Buddhism - Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism in England
Mellor, P. A. 1989. “The Cultural Translation of Buddhism: Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism in England.” PhD. Thesis, University of Manchester.
1996
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China - A Study of Dharmaraksa and his Translation Idiom
Boucher, Daniel. 1996. "Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China: A Study of Dharmarakṣa and His Translation Idiom."Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Newly Added: Periodical Issues
2016
Periodical Issues · Journal Issues
Buddhist Studies Review/Vol. 33 No. 1-2 (2016)
Buddhist Studies Review 33.1-2 (2016). Edited by Peter Harvey, University of Sunderland and Alice Collett, Nalanda University. doi: 10.1558/bsrv.31646. Published in May and November. ISSN:0265-2897 (print). ISSN: 1747-9681 (online).
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