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The Shangpa Kagyü Resource Center intends to form a collaborative and multilingual platform to share and preserve digital texts and information concerning the Shangpa Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This database for translation work, research and university studies aims at facilitating cooperation and exchanges in projects of common interest, thereby enriching the lineage and its teachings.

Contributions

The Shangpa Kagyu Resource Center is a participative project that will evolve according to contributions, thanks to international collaboration. Masters, Dharma Centers and practitioners are welcome to participate in the gathering of documents that will benefit the Shangpa lineage and all sentient beings.

Contents

Classifications

General classification: This section consist of traditional catalogues of Shangpa texts by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé and Gyurmé Dechen. Each catalogue is significant and sorts the texts of the tradition.

The Shangpa Collections: This section includes the charts of various collections of Shangpa texts. Each chart has hypertext links to its own texts and each text includes up to several links to the original manuscripts available on The Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA by the BDRC).

General History: This section brings together extracts from books containing informations relating to the Shangpa lineage and its masters.

Topics

This section enables a direct access to the texts related to their main subject. Those subjects are selected based on the catalogues of Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé.

Persons & Places

Those sections contain information about people and places found in the various Shangpa texts.

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Translations

Some translations (in the form of PDF files) are available according to your accreditation. Please contact us.

New material

2024-08-23 sgyu ma lam rim gyi gsal byed nor bu'i them skas by Shakya Choden)

2024-08-16 gangs can sgrub brgyud shing rta lnga pa dpal ldan shangs pa bka' brgyud kyi gser chos nI gu chos drug gi brgyud 'debs by Dilgo Khyentsé Trashi Peljor. 2024-08-15 Cataloguing of gsang sgrub skor gsum by Ngawang Chödrak and Sönam Tsemo.
2024-06-23 Excerpts from rnam gling gi lo rgyus rig gnas mdor bstan by 'od yug bstan 'dzin.
2024-06-08 Excerpt from chos 'byung mkhas pa'i dga' ston by dpa' bo 02 gtsug lag 'phreng ba.
2024-06-07 Excerpt from chos 'byung bstan pa'i padma rgyas pa'i nyin byed by 'brug chen 04 pad+ma dkar po.
2024-06-05 Excerpt from deb ther sngon po by 'gos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal.
2024-05-12 rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan pa'i rnam thar gsal byed dngul dkar me long.
2024-04-25 snyan brgyud kyi man ngag rdo rje'i tshig gi mdud 'grol.
2024-04-25 Cataloguing of skye sku zhang 'gu dgon gyi a gros nyar tshags byed pa'i dpe rnying rtsa chen skor.
2024-04-07 'byams gcod 2.
2024-04-03 bar do gsum gyi gdams pa bsdus pa by Rinchen Lodrö?.
2024-03-31 'byams gcod rnam gsum bsdus pa by Nenyingpa Aï Sengé.
2024-03-29 chos drug gi gsung sgros completed.
2024-03-29 ni gu chos drug gi khrid yig mkhas btsun gzhon nu grub kyis mdzad pa by Shönu Drup.
2024-03-29 rje btsun phyogs las rnam rgyal gyis mdzad pa'i ne gu chos drug gi brgyud rim gsol 'debs by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2024-01-29 tshogs rnams kyi zur 'debs kyi zhal shes shin tu gsang ba'i yig chung rnams by Gelek Pelsang.
2023-04-09 Cataloguing of untitled volume W8LS36545.
2023-03-30 ni gu chos drug gi khrid yig by Shönu Drup.
2023-03-12 chos rje'i rnam par thar pa updated.
2023-02-23 bdag med ma'i nang khrid by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2023-02-18 'khrul 'khor phyag len by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2023-02-16 tshogs 'khor sdus pa'i lag len by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2023-02-14 khrid kyi rim pa and tsog pu'i yon tan by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2023-02-12 sgyu lus 'dzin pa rang grol (alternative version).
2023-02-11 khyad 'phags 'od gsal 'char sgo ngos 'dzin by Bodong Cholé Namgyel, a version of khyad 'phags 'char sgo ngos 'dzin of Sangyé Tönpa and Aï Sengé.
2023-02-11 chos drug gi zin dris by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2023-01-22 mkha' spyod ma dkar mo'i byin rlabs kyi bka' + dbang gi cho ga by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.
2023-01-20 'chi med ye shes kyi khrid by Bodong Cholé Namgyel.

2022-10-14 dpal ldan shangs pa bka' brgyud kyi chos 'byung gser chos zhing gi sa bon part 1 and part 2 by rdo rje tshe dbang.