Miscellaneous Works

Treatises by Early Tibetan Scholars(31 works)

Texts by the early Tibetan scholars and unknown authors on topics ranging from translation, Tibetan grammar, and text inventories to sūtra commentaries and meditation instructions (Toh 4346-4376)

Miscellaneous Works

Treatises by Early Tibetan Scholars(31 works)

[The Great Treatise on] Understanding Etymologies

The Glossary in Two Sections

A Foundational Description [of Tibetan Grammar] called “The Thirty”

A [Foundational] Description [of Tibetan Grammar], the Application of [Linguistic] Signs

Root Text on the Eight Great [Linguistic] Topics

A Treatise on Linguistics

A Summary of the Sūtra [Unravelling the Intent] From a Valid Assessment of the Correct Words [of the Buddha]

A Commentary on the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom [Sūtra], A Commentary on the Mantra

The Wheel of Debating the Precious [Teachings]

A Letter Condensing The Most Precious, A Dispatch to the Ruler and Peoples of Tibet

An Explanation of the Stages of the View

An Account of the Precious Teachings together with a Lineage of the Śākya Clan

An Explanation of the Sutra Unravelling the Intent

A Memorandum Condensing the Four Points, A Commentary on [the Vows of] the Conduct of Samantabhadra

The Specifics of the View

An Extensive Commentary on the Foremost Buddha

A Memorandum Enumerating Phenomena

An Enumeration of Phenomena

A Handlist of Translations Found in the Denkar Palace in Upper Thang

A Commentary on [the Dharma Discourse called] “Ascertaining the Meanings”

A Method for Generating Special Insight

A Concise General Summary of the Mental Abidings

A Method for [Attaining] the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of [Meditating on] Ugliness

A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Meditating on Love

A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Reckoning Dependent-arising

A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Dividing the Constituents

A Method for Engaging in the Mental Abidings From the Perspective of Counting Breaths

A Brief Method for [Attaining] Calm Abiding Through Meditating on the Body

A Method for Entering into Calm Abiding

A Summary of Entering into Meditative Concentration

A Concise Summary and Discussion of Just the Slightest Experience of the Mind

Newly Inserted Miscellaneous the Treatises on Sūtra and the Sciences(46 works)

The Sūtras of Pāṇini’s [Sanskrit] Grammar

A Running Commentary on the [Grammatical] Rules of Pāṇini’s Treatise on [Sanskrit] Grammar and Arrangement of Notes on their Significance, Application, Examples, etc. called “The Chariot Leading to the Jewels of Eloquent Explanations”

An Extensive Commentary on the Explanation of “The Treasury of Abhidharma” called "The Suchness of the Object"

Rules for Verbal Roots in the Kātantra System [of Grammar]

The Sārasvatī [System of Sanskrit] Grammar

Rules for Verbal Roots [for the Candra System of Sanskrit Grammar]

Rules for [Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Kātantra System of Sanskrit Grammar]

A Commentary on [Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Kātantra System of Sanskrit Grammar]

[Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. [in the Cāndra System of Sanskrit Grammar]

A Commentary on [Rules for Suffixes forming Verbal Derivatives beginning with] Uṇ etc. in the Cāndra System [of Sanskrit Grammar]

Corpus of Verbal Roots [for the Cāndra System of Sanskrit Grammar]

[The Declension of Nouns and Adjectives] Ending in -sUP called “The Source of Jewels”

A Detailed Description of [The Declension of Nouns and Adjectives] Ending in -sUP

An Explanation of the Three [Types of] Suffixes

The Defining Characteristics of the Mañjuśrī System of [Sanskrit] Grammar

[A Treatise on] Perfect Medical Practices

The Medicinal Pill called “The Noble Conquering Queen” Taken From the Profound Personal Instructions of Ārya Nāgārjunapāda

A Treasury of Excellent Roots, A Collection of the Best Medicines Taken From the Profound Personal Instructions of Ārya Nāgārjunapāda

Identifying [Medicinal] Plant Roots and Their Established Categories

An Anthology Condensing the Essence of All Ayurvedic Medicine

The [Medical] Treatise of Dānadāsa, a Doctor from Pataha in India

[The Medical Knowledge of] the Brahmaveda, Sāraṅgadhara, and Caraka

[Medicinal] Compounds Using the Samudrapala Plant That Was Offered to Gaṇapati by Devendra, Together With Its Decoctions

The Advice of the Kṣatriya Doctor from Mathurā in Central India, Rāghunātha

Opening the Eyes and [Restoring] Meaningful Sight

The Root Text and Commentary on “The Nine Cycles of the Mirror of Magical Emanations”

A Commentary on “The Nine Cycles of the Mirror of Magical Emanations” By Means of the Flower of Reasoning

The Lamp of the Exalted Mind

The Lamp of the Correct View

The Lamp Clearing Away the Darkness of Extreme [Views]

The Lamp of Method and Wisdom

The Lamp of Methods for Meditating on the Definitive Meaning Just As It Is in the Yogācāra System

The Lamp of the Precious View

Clear Words on the Application of “-ti” [Grammatical] Endings

A Treatise on Expressions called “Clarifying All Varieties” Also Known As “The Garland of Pearls”

A Treatise of Polysemous Expressions With Single Equivalent Terms called “The Garland of Jewels”

Personal Instructions on Astrological Calculations According to the Kālacakra Tantra

A Garland of Torma Cakes

A Dhāraṇī for Recalling [Previous] Lives

A Commentary on the Sūtras of the Cāndra [System of] Grammar

[A Treatise on Sanskrit] Metrics called “The Source of Jewels”

A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Garland of Birth Stories”

Refuting [the Idea of] a Prime Deity as a Creator God and Specifically Refuting [the Idea of] Viṣṇu as a Unitary Creator

Nine Verses [on the Perfection of Wisdom]

A Sūtra of the Bhagavatī Prajñāpāramitā called “The Seven-Part Verse of the Noble One”

An Introduction to [the Rules of the] Kātantra [System of Grammar]