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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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1968
Books · Collections of Essays, Academic Publications, Conference Proceedings
Guilt or Pollution and Rites of Purification
Schneider, Herbert W., and B. A. van Proosdij, eds. Guilt or Pollution and Rites of Purification. Vol. 2 of Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Claremont, CA, Sep. 6–11, 1965. Leiden, Neth.: Brill, 1968.
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2024
Books · Translations
Kadam: Stages of the Path, Mind Training and Esoteric Practice - Part 1 (Engle 2024)
Engle, Artemus B., trans. Kadam: Stages of the Path, Mind Training and Esoteric Practice, Part 1. Vol. 3 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2024.
2023
Books · Translations
Shangpa Kagyu: The Tradition of Khyungpo Naljor - Part 2 (Harding 2023)
Harding, Sarah, trans. Shangpa Kagyu: The Tradition of Khyungpo Naljor, Part 2. Vol. 12 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2023.
2024
Books · Translations
Nyingma: Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga: Part Two (Blankleder and Fletcher 2024)
Blankleder, Helena and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Nyingma: Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga: Part Two. Compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul. The Treasury of Precious Instructions. Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet. Vol 2. Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2024.
2023
Books · Translations
Marpa Kagyu: Methods of Liberation - Part 1
Callahan, Elizabeth M., trans. Marpa Kagyu: Methods of Liberation, Part 1. Vol. 7 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2023.
2020
Books · Translations
Les Systèmes Philosophiques Bouddhistes (Charrier 2020)
Charrier, Christian, trans. Trésor de connaissances: Les systèmes philosophiques bouddhistes - Volume 1. By Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Collection Tsadra. Le Plantou, France: Éditions Padmakara, 2020.
2022
Books · Translations
The Precious Treasury of the Fundamental Nature
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Precious Treasury of the Fundamental Nature. By Longchenpa. With a commentary by Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2022.
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2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 14 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 14. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 13 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 13. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 12 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 12. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 11 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 11. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 10 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 10. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 9 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 9. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
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Translations from 2024
Total: 49
2024
Books · Translations
Jewel Treasure of the Dharmadhatu (Light of Berotsana 2024)
Chonam, Lama, and Sangye Khandro (Light of Berotsana Translation Group), trans. Jewel Treasure of the Dharmadhātu (chöying rinpoche'i dzöd): With the Autocommentary, A Treasury of Citations. By Omniscient Longchen Rabjam. Ashland, OR: Berotsana Publications, 2024.
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Translations from 2023
Total: 56
2023
Books · Translations, Buddhist Topic Monographs
A Journey to the West - Vol. 1 (Sodargye 2023)
Sodargye, Khenpo, ed. A Journey to the West - Vol.1 : Recollections of Accompanying My Guru to Europe and North America in 1993. Translated by the International Translation team. Taipei: DeKi Publishing, 2023.
2023
Books · Translations, Buddhist Topic Monographs
A Journey to the West - Vol. 2 (Sodargye 2023)
Sodargye, Khenpo, ed. A Journey to the West - Vol.2 : Recollections of Accompanying My Guru to Europe and North America in 1993. Translated by the International Translation team. Taipei: DeKi Publishing, 2023.
2023
Books · Translations, Academic Publications
A Study of the Life and Works of Go-rams-pa bSod-nams-seng-ge and a Translation and Critical Edition of his sDom gsum kha skong (Jamtsho 2023)
Jamtsho, Sonam. A Study of the Life and Works of Go-rams-pa bSod-nams-seng-ge and a Translation and Critical Edition of his sDom gsum kha skong. New Delhi, India: Dev Publishers & Distributors, 2023.
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Translations from 2022
Total: 92
2022
Books · Translations, Academic Publications
A Splash of the Logical Reason
Steinkellner, Ernst, trans, ed. A Splash of the Logical Reason: Dharmakīrti's Hetubindu Translated. Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, 108. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 925. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022.
2022
Books · Translations, Digital Publications
Ascertaining the Vinaya: Upāli's Questions: Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchā (Erdene-Ochir, B.)
Erdene-Ochir, ErdeneBaatar, Jake Nagasawa, and Jaakko Takkinen (UCSB Buddhist Studies Translation Group), trans. and ed. Ascertaining the Vinaya: Upāli's Questions (Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchā). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2021. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh68.html.
2022
Books · Translations
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.
2022
Books · Translations, Academic Publications
Buddhist Hymns A New Collection
Liu, Zhen and Johannes Schneider, eds. Buddhist Hymns A New Collection. Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 24. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House; Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2022.
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Published 2021 & 2022
2022
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i rtsa bsdus 'grel gsum gyi shan sbyar ma kun mkhyen dol po'i zhal lung zhes bya ba
Dol po pa. bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i rtsa bsdus 'grel gsum gyi shan sbyar ma kun mkhyen dol po'i zhal lung zhes bya ba bzhugs so. Kathmandu: Kha-Nyam Publications, 2022.
2021
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Bod kyi tshad gzhung thog ma
The current and second research monograph in the Series-Bod kyi tshad gzhung thog ma: Chos rgyal khri srong lde 'u btsan gyi rnam thar dang - bka' yang dag pa'i tshad ma'i brjod bya rjod byed la zhib jug by mKhan-po dPalbzang-dar-rgyas, one of the four pilots-is the fruit of many years of intensive training and research. The title of the monograph may be roughly rendered as: The First Tibetan Work on Logic and Epistemology: A Study of the Biography/Hagiography of the Religious King Khri-srong-lde 'u-btsan and the Text and Content of [His] "Testimony of the Correct Teachings [of the Buddha] " (bKa' yang dag pa'i tshad ma). The study contains a critical edition the bKa'yang dag pa'i tshad ma prepared by consulting all accessible textual witnesses, and an in-depth study of the main topics of the work, such as the four types of reasoning (yzukti: rigs pa). As its title states, it also contains a study of the life and works of King Khri-srong-lde'u-btsan, which is based on whatever textual evidences that could be found, and which provides the necessary background and context of the work under investigation. mKhan-po also addresses, among many other things, the issue of the authorship and the nature of the work. He puts forward his stance, as reflected in the title, that there is no adequate reason to reject the authorship of the bKa' yang dag pa'i tshad ma, and also that the work could be considered the first Tibetan work on Buddhist logic and epistemology. Like any other study, there will certainly be room for corrections and improvements, but all in all mKhan-po's study is exemplary in his pursuing the historical-philological approach to the study of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist texts and ideas. The value of mKhan-po's research is bound to be enduring, and it would be impossible for anyone wishing to pursue further study on the bKa yang dag pa'i tshad ma to ignore this important contribution.
2021
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Chos bzang rigs pa'i rnam dpyod
The current and third research monograph in the Series--Chos bzang rigs pa'i rnam dpyod: Rong zom pa ma hā pandi ta'i theg tshul rjod byed zhib dpyad zhu dag lung khungs ngos 'dzin dang - brjod bya gnas lugs rig par rtsad zhib tshom bu by mKhan-po bKra-shis-rdo-rje, one of the four pilots from the NNRC is a fruit of many years of intensive research. The main title of the monograph is a clear allusion to Mahāyānasūtrālamkāra 8.9a: sudharmatāyuktivicāransaya, the Tibetan rendering being chos bzang rigs pa'i rnam dpyad bsam pa can. mKhan-po, like Mi-pham rNam-rgyal-rgya-mtsho (1846-1912), is insinuating that Rong-zom Chos-kyi-bzang-po, as his name also indicates, was a rational person, a sudharmatāyuktivicāranāsaya (chos bzang rigs pas rmam dpyad bsam pa can). As the subtitle shows, the study consists of a critical edition of the Theg chen tshul 'jug, one of Rong-zom-pa's magna opera that deals with the philosophy of the Great Perfection (rDzogs-pa-chen-po), including identification of the sources therein either ad verbum or ad sensum and a study of the special ontology of the special Mahāyāna proposed in the work. There will certainly be lapses of commission, omissions, and imprecisions, and hence room for corrections and improvements, but in terms of the research methods and research outcome, mKhan-po's study can be considered ground-breaking. The value of mKhan-po's research in the field of historical-philological studies of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist texts and ideas is bound to be enduring and no one wishing to pursue further study of Rong-zom-pa's thoughts can afford ignoring this important contribution.
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2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 14 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 14. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 13 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 13. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 12 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 12. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 11 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 11. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
2025
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum - Vol. 10 (Shechen Publications 2025)
འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ ('jigs med gling pa) (1729-1798). ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པའི་གསུང་འབུམ། (kun mkhyen rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa'i gsung 'bum). Vol. 10. New Delhi: ཞེ་ཆེན་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་, Shechen Publications, 2025.
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Newly Added: Articles
2012
Articles · Digital Publications
The Preliminary Practice of Tonglen
Zopa, Thupten. "The Preliminary Practice of Tonglen." Advice on the practice of tonglen dictated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Kendall Magnussen in 2006. Edited by Ven. Sarah Thresher. Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, 2012. https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/preliminary-practice-tonglen
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Articles · Digital Publications
Buddha Nature, the Ever-Present Seed of Enlightenment
Thaye, Lama Jampa. "Buddha Nature, the Ever-Present Seed of Enlightenment." Mindworks, https://mindworks.org/blog/buddha-nature-the-ever-present-seed-of-enlightenment/.
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Newly Added: Dissertations
2013
Dissertations · PhD diss., Translations
Lords of the Northern Treasures: The Development of the Tibetan Institution of Rule by Successive Incarnations
Valentine, Jay. Lords of the Northern Treasures: The Development of the Tibetan Institution of Rule by Successive Incarnations. University of Virginia, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2013-07-22, https://doi.org/10.18130/V3F51F.
2024
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Transgression, Conversion, Reformation: Atiśa Dīpaṃkara and Tantric Hermeneutics in the Later Propagation of Tibetan Buddhism
Lambelet, Patrick G. "Transgression, Conversion, Reformation: Atiśa Dīpaṃkara and Tantric Hermeneutics in the Later Propagation of Tibetan Buddhism." PhD diss., UC Santa Barbara, 2024. ProQuest ID: Lambelet_ucsb_0035D_16396. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5q92p2x. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86v0x46f
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Newly Added: Periodical Issues
2026
Periodical Issues · Journal Issues
Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines/Vol. 80 (2026)
Arguillère, Stéphane, ed. "Northern Treasures Histories: Volume I — Before Rigdzin Gödem." Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 80 (January 2026). Accessed January 23, 2026. https://d1i1jdw69xsqx0.cloudfront.net/digitalhimalaya/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_80.pdf
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Geshe Lhakdor: Shantideva "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" (11 of 11)
Lhakdor, Geshe. "Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'." Part 11 of 11. Produced by Tushita Meditation Centre May 1, 2023. Video, 1:56:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DYaVQAshno.
Multimedia · Video
Geshe Lhakdor: Shantideva "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" (10 of 11)
Lhakdor, Geshe. "Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'." Part 10 of 11. Produced by Tushita Meditation Centre April 30, 2023. Video, 2:03:23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rw8ijUExeg.
Multimedia · Video
Geshe Lhakdor: Shantideva "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" (9 of 11)
Lhakdor, Geshe. "Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'." Part 9 of 11. Produced by Tushita Meditation Centre April 30, 2023. Video, 1:57:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7FVaDuwzk8.
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Geshe Lhakdor: Shantideva "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" (8 of 11)
Lhakdor, Geshe. "Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'." Part 8 of 11. Produced by Tushita Meditation Centre April 29, 2023. Video, 2:02:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA5WU83XtLI.
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Geshe Lhakdor: Shantideva "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" (7 of 11)
Lhakdor, Geshe. "Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'." Part 7 of 11. Produced by Tushita Meditation Centre April 29, 2023. Video, 2:00:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93y7_9PziPo.
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Geshe Lhakdor: Shantideva "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" (6 of 11)
Lhakdor, Geshe. "Shantideva 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'." Part 6 of 11. Produced by Tushita Meditation Centre April 28, 2023. Video, 1:56:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5jU3xj4w-4.
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