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Tibetan Middle Way,
355-428. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1983.


ā
n
ā
kara

Introduction to Mantra / Introduction to Secret Mantra

mantr
ā
vat
ā
ra

gsang sngags la ’jug pa P4541, vol. 81


ā
nashr
ī

Eradicating the Two Extremes with respect to the Vajra Vehicle

vajray
ā
nako

idvay
ā
poha

rdo rje theg pa’i mtha’ gnyis sel ba P4537, vol. 81

Ke-drup Ge-lek-pel-sang (
mkhas grub dge legs dpal bzang,
1385-1438)

Extensive Explanation of the Format of the General Tantra Sets

rgyud sde spyi’i rnam par bzhag pa rgyas par bshad pa

Collected Works of the Lord Mkhas-grub rje dge-legs-dpal-bza

-po, vol. 8, 443-630. New Delhi: Guru Deva, 1980. Also: Collected Works of Mkhas-grub dge-legs dpal, vol. 11, 215-368. New Delhi: Ngawang Gelek Demo, 1983.

Edited and translated by Ferdinand D. Lessing and Alex Wayman.
Mkhas Grub Rje’s Fundamentals of the Buddhist Tantras.
The Hague: Mouton, 1968; reprint, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.

How to Practice the Two Stages of the Path of the Glorious K
ā
lachakra: Quick Entry to the Path of Great Bliss

dpal dus kyi ’khor lo’i lam rim pa gnyis ji ltar nyams su len pa’i tshul bde ba chen po’i

lam du myur du ’jug pa

Collected Works of Rgyal-tshab Dar-ma-rin-chen, vol. 1, 89-203. Delhi: Guru Deva, 1982. Also: Collected Works of Rgyal-tshab Dar-ma-rin-chen, vol. 1. Delhi: Ngawang Gelek Demo, 1981.

Kel-sang-gya-tso, Seventh Dalai Lama (
bskal bzang rgya mtsho
, 1708-1757)

Explanation of the Mandala Rite of the Glorious Guhyasam
ā
ja Ak

hobhyavajra: Illumination Brilliantly Clarifying the Principles of the Meaning of Initiation: Sacred Word of Vajrasattva

dpal gsang ba ’dus pa mi bskyod rdo rje’i dkyil ’khor gyi cho ga’i rnam par bshad pa

dbang don de nyid yang gsal snang ba rdo rje sems dpa’i zhal lung New Delhi: Tanzin Kunga, 1972

K
ṛṣ
h

ach
ā
rin (
nag po pa
)

Illumination of the Secret Principles

guhyatattvaprak
āś
a

gsang ba’i de kho na nyid gsal ba P2167, vol. 51

Long-chen-rap-jam (
klong chen rab ’byams / klong chen dri med ’od zer,
1308-1363)

Precious Treasury of Tenets: Illuminating the Meaning of All Vehicles

theg pa mtha’ dag gi don gsal bar byed pa grub pa’i mtha’ rin po che’i mdzod Gangtok, Sikkim: Dodrup Chen Rinpoche, 1969[?]

English translation: Albion Moonlight Butters. “The Doxographical Genius of Kun mkhyen kLong chen rab ’byams pa.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2006, 298-707.

Precious Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle

theg pa’i mchog rin po che’i mdzod

Gangtok, Sikkim: Dodrup Chen Rinpoche, 1969[?].

Long-döl Ngawang-lo-sang (
klong rdol ngag dbang blo bzang,
1719-1794)

Terminology Arising in Secret Mantra, the Scriptural Collections of the Knowledge Bearers

gsang sngags rig pa ’dzin pa’i sde snod las byung ba’i ming gi grang

The Collected Works of Longdol Lama, Part 1, 87-170. New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture, 1973.

402
Tantric Techniques

Lo-sang-chö-kyi-gyel-tsen, First Pa

-chen Lama (
blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan
, 1567?-1662)

Presentation of the General Teaching and the Four Tantra Sets, Based on Notes
bstan pa spyi dang rgyud sde’i bzhi’i rnam bzhag zin bris su byas pa Collected Works, vol. 4, 10.1-45.3. New Delhi: Gurudeva, 1973.

Maitreya (
byams pa
)

Five Doctrines of Maitreya
  1. Sublime Continuum of the Great Vehicle / Treatise on the Later Scriptures of the Great Vehicle

    mah
    ā
    y
    ā
    nottaratantra
    śā
    stra

    theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma’i bstan bcos P5525, vol. 108

    Sanskrit: E. H. Johnston (and T. Chowdhury).
    The Ratnagotravibh
    ā
    ga Mah
    ā
    y
    ā
    nottaratantra-

    śā
    stra
    . Patna, India: Bihar Research Society, 1950.

    English translation: E. Obermiller. “Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation.”
    Acta Orientalia
    9 (1931): 81-306. Also: J. Takasaki.
    A Study on the Ratnagotravibh
    ā
    ga
    . Se-rie Orientale Roma 33. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1966.

  2. Differentiation of Phenomena and Noumenon

    dharmadharmat
    ā
    vibha

    ga

    chos dang chos nyid rnam par ’byed pa P5523, vol. 108

    Edited Tibetan: J
    ō
    sh
    ō
    Nozawa. “The
    Dharmadharmat
    ā
    vibha

    ga
    and the
    Dharmadharmat
    ā
    - vibha

    gav

    tti,
    Tibetan Texts, Edited and Collated, Based upon the Peking and Derge Editions.” In
    Studies in Indology and Buddhology: Presented in Honour of Professor Susumu Yamaguchi on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday,
    edited by Gadjin M. Nagao and J
    ō
    sh
    ō
    Nozawa. Kyoto: Hozokan, 1955.

    English translation: John Younghan Cha. “A Study of the
    Dharmadharmat
    ā
    vibh
    ā
    ga:
    An Analysis of the Religious Philosophy of the Yog
    ā
    c
    ā
    ra, Together with an Annotated Translation of Vasubandhu’s Commentary.” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1996.

    English translation: Jim Scott.
    Maitreya’s Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being with Commentary by Mipham.
    Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

  3. Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes

    madhy
    ā
    ntavibha

    ga

    dbus dang mtha’ rnam par ’byed pa P5522, vol. 108

    Sanskrit: Gadjin M. Nagao.
    Madhy
    ā
    ntavibh
    ā
    ga-bh
    āṣ
    ya
    . Tokyo: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1964. Also: Ramchandra Pandeya.
    Madhy
    ā
    ntavibh
    ā
    ga-
    śā
    stra
    . Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1971.

    English translation: Stefan Anacker.
    Seven Works of Vasubandhu.
    Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984. Also, of chapter 1: Thomas A. Kochumuttom.
    A Buddhist Doctrine of Experience.
    Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982. Also, of chapter 1: Th. Stcherbatsky.
    Madhy
    ā
    ntavibh
    ā
    ga, Discourse on Discrimination between Middle and Extremes Ascribed to Bodhisattva Maitreya and Commented by Vasubandhu and Sthiramati.
    Bibliotheca Buddhica 30 (1936). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag, 1970; reprint, Calcutta: Indian Studies Past and Present, 1971. Also, of chapter 1: David Lasar Friedmann.
    Sthiramati, Madhy
    ā
    ntavibh
    ā
    ga
    ṭī
    k
    ā
    : Analysis of the Middle Path and the Extremes.
    Utrecht, Netherlands: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1937.

  4. Ornament for Clear Realization

    abhisamay
    ā
    la

    k
    ā
    ra mngon par rtogs pa’i rgyan P5184, vol. 88

    Sanskrit: Th. Stcherbatsky and E. Obermiller, eds.
    Abhisamay
    ā
    la

    k
    ā
    ra-Prajñ
    ā
    p
    ā
    ramit
    ā
    - Upade
    ś
    a-
    Śā
    stra
    . Bibliotheca Buddhica 23. Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag, 1970.

    Bibliography
    403

    English translation: Edward Conze.
    Abhisamay
    ā
    la

    k
    ā
    ra
    . Serie Orientale Roma 6. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1954.

  5. Ornament for the Great Vehicle S
    ū
    tras

mah
ā
y
ā
nas
ū
tr
ā
la

k
ā
ra

theg pa chen po’i mdo sde rgyan gyi tshig le’ur byas pa P5521, vol. 108

Sanskrit: Sitansusekhar Bagchi.
Mah
ā
y
ā
na-S
ū
tr
ā
la

k
ā
ra

of Asa

ga
[with Vasubandhu’s commentary]. Buddhist Sanskrit Texts 13. Darbhanga, India: Mithila Institute, 1970.

Sanskrit text and translation into French: Sylvain Lévi.
Mah
ā
y
ā
nas
ū
tr
ā
la

k
ā
ra, exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yog
ā
c
ā
ra
. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études. 2 vols. Paris: Libraire Honoré Champion, 1907, 1911.

Sanskrit text and translation into English: Surekha Vijay Limaye.
Mah
ā
y
ā
nas
ū
tr
ā
la

k
ā
ra by Asa

ga
. Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series 94. Delhi: Sri Satguru, 1992.

English translation: L. Jamspal
et al.
The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature.
Editor-in- chief, Robert A.F. Thurman. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, 2004.

M
ā
t

ceta and Dign
ā
ga (
phyogs kyi glang po,
sixth century)

Interwoven Praise
mi
ś
rakastotra dpel mar bstod pa

P2041, vol. 46; Toh. 1150

N
ā
gabodhi (
klu byang
)

Clear Meaning Commentary on (N
ā
g
ā
rjuna’s) “Five Stages”

pañcakrama
ṭī
k
ā
ma

im
ā
l
ā

rim pa lnga pa’i bshad pa nor bu’i phreng ba P2697, vol. 62

N
ā
g
ā
rjuna (
klu sgrub,
first to second century, C.E.)

Five Stages
pañcakrama rim pa lnga pa P2667, vol. 61

Sanskrit: Katsumi Mimaki and T
ō
ru Tomabechi.
Pañcakrama.
Bibliotheca Codicum Asia-ticorum 8. Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for UNESCO, 1994.

English translation of the introductory stanzas: Alex Wayman,
Yoga of the Guhyasam
ā
jatantra.
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977.

Praise of the Element of Attributes

dharmadh
ā
tustotra

chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa P2010, vol. 46; Toh. 1118, vol. ka

Praise of the NonConceptual

*nirvikalpastava

rnam par mi rtog pa la bstod pa [?]

Six Collections of Reasonings
  1. Precious Garland of Advice for the King

    r
    ā
    japarikath
    ā
    ratn
    ā
    val
    ī

    rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che’i phreng ba P5658, vol. 129

    Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese: Michael Hahn.
    N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna’s Ratn
    ā
    val
    ī
    ,
    vol. 1
    . The Basic Texts (Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese).
    Bonn: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 1982.

    English translation: Jeffrey Hopkins.
    Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation: N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna’s Precious Garland,
    94-164. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1998. Supersedes that

    404
    Tantric Techniques

    in: N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna and the Seventh Dalai Lama.
    The Precious Garland and the Song of the Four Mindfulnesses,
    translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, 17-93. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975; New York: Harper and Row, 1975; reprint, in H.H. the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyat-so.
    The Buddhism of Tibet.
    London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983; reprint, Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1987.

    English translation: John Dunne and Sara McClintock.
    The Precious Garland: An Epistle to a King.
    Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1997.

    English translation of chap. 1, 1-77: Giuseppe Tucci. “The
    Ratn
    ā
    val
    ī
    of N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna.”
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
    (1934): 307-324; reprint, Giuseppe Tucci.
    Opera Minora,
    II. Rome: Giovanni Bardi Editore, 1971, 321-366. Chap. 2, 1-46; chap. 4, 1-100: Giuseppe Tucci. “The
    Ratn
    ā
    val
    ī
    of N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna.”
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
    (1936): 237-252, 423-435.

    Japanese translation: Ury
    ū
    zu Ryushin.
    Butten II, Sekai Koten Bungaku Zenshu,
    7 (July, 1965): 349-372. Edited by Nakamura Hajime. Tokyo: Chikuma Shob
    ō
    . Also: Ury
    ū
    zu Ryushin.
    Daij
    ō
    Butten
    14 (1974): 231-316.
    Ry
    ū
    ju Ronsh
    ū
    .
    Edited by Kajiyama Yuichi and Ury
    ū
    zu Ryushin. Tokyo: Ch
    ūō
    k
    ō
    ronsha.

    Danish translation: Christian Lindtner.
    Nagarjuna, Juvelkaeden og andre skrifter.
    Copenhagen, 1980.

  2. Refutation of Objections

    vigrahavy
    ā
    vartan
    ī
    k
    ā
    rik
    ā

    rtsod pa bzlog pa’i tshig le’ur byas pa P5228, vol. 95

    Edited Tibetan and Sanskrit: Christian Lindtner.
    Nagarjuniana,
    70-86. Indiske Studier 4. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1982.

    Edited Sanskrit and English translation: K. Bhattacharya, E. H. Johnston, and A. Kunst.

    The Dialectical Method of N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna.
    New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.

    English translation from the Chinese: G. Tucci.
    Pre-Di

    n
    ā
    ga Buddhist Texts on Logic from Chinese Sources.
    Gaekwad’s Oriental Series 49. Baroda, India: Oriental Institute, 1929. French translation: S. Yamaguchi. “Traité de N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna pour écarter les vaines discussion (Vigrahavy
    ā
    vartan
    ī
    ) traduit et annoté.”
    Journal Asiatique
    215 (1929): 1-86.

  3. Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness

    śū
    nyat
    ā
    saptatik
    ā
    rik
    ā

    stong pa nyid bdun cu pa’i tshig le’ur byas pa P5227, vol. 95

    Edited Tibetan and English translation: Christian Lindtner.
    Nagarjuniana,
    34-69. Indiske Studier 4. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1982.

    English translation: David Ross Komito.
    N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna’s “Seventy Stanzas”: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness
    . Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1987.

  4. Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning

    yukti

    a
    ṣṭ
    ik
    ā
    k
    ā
    rik
    ā

    rigs pa drug cu pa’i tshig le’ur byas pa P5225, vol. 95

    Edited Tibetan with Sanskrit fragments and English translation: Christian Lindtner.
    Nagarjuniana,
    100-119. Indiske Studier 4. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1982.

  5. Treatise Called the Finely Woven

    vaidalyas
    ū
    tran
    ā
    ma

    zhib mo rnam par ’thag pa zhes bya ba’i mdo P5226, vol. 95

    Tibetan text and English translation: Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti.
    N
    ā
    g
    ā
    rjuna’s Refutation of Logic (Ny
    ā
    ya) Vaidalyaprakara

    a.
    Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1995.

  6. Treatise on the Middle / Fundamental Treatise on the Middle, Called “Wisdom”

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