An important publication that has recently appeared is a collection of the surviving writings of Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo (1925-1958/1959). This famed teacher was connected to both Shechen and Thrangu Monasteries in Kham. He is known as a master of the “Crazy Wisdom” Tradition and was the root guru of Surmang Drungpa Rinpoche, who spread the [...]
TBRC has over the past years scanned and made available to lineage holders and researchers cataloging for the following Kangyurs: Derge Parphu, Tog Palace Manuscript, Lhasa, Urga, and Narthang. During 2009 we will post scans prepared, thanks to the Library of Congress, of the Choni Kangyur.
Scholars using TBRC will have available for the Tengyur full [...]
by Michael Sheehy
The second set in the Jonang Publication Series (Jo nang dpe tshogs) was recently published (vols. 11-21) in Beijing. This annual series is dedicated to making select works on sutra and tantra from the Jonang exegetical tradition available in softcover book form. Each Tibetan text in the series was chosen from the corpus [...]
For many years TBRC has actively sought extra-canonical translations which are not to be found in the canonical collections. These are quite common in the tantra section of the Kangyur. We have recently digitized and posted a collection of texts containing the rare translation of the bde mchog nyung ngu (cakrasamvaratantra) of Sumatikirti and Mardo [...]
The People’s Publishing House in Beijing has published a very rare treatise on the sutra literature of the Kangyur, This text is a very rare manuscript, edited by the late Minyak Gonpo by a hitherto unknown scholar of the Phagmodru court, Pekar Sangpo of Tsetang.
Minyak Gonpo notes that the composition of the work was begun [...]