The Kangyur
Tantra
Tantra Collection
The Kangyur

Tantra Collection

རྒྱུད་འབུམ།

Tantra

The principal tantra collection of 468 canonical tantras, mainly from the “later spread” of Vajrayāna to Tibet, arranged by level.

Toh
360
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827
Overview

Unexcelled Yoga tantras

བླ་མེད་རྒྱུད།
Toh
360
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478

Tantras of the highest class, divided into “non-dual,” “mother,” and “father,” and within the two latter categories into six “families” of principal deities.

Yoga tantras

རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད།
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479
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493

Tantras of the Yoga class based mainly on meditational practices, including those emphasizing skillful means followed by those emphasizing wisdom.

Conduct tantras

སྤྱོད་པའི་རྒྱུད།
Toh
494
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501

Tantras of the Conduct class with both meditational and ritual elements, mostly centered on the deities Vairocana, Acala, or Vajrapāṇi.

Action tantras

བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད།
Toh
502
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808

Tantras of the Action class, mainly emphasizing external worship and ritual, and classified into six “families” of principal deities (Toh 502-808).

Dedication-aspiration

བསྔོ་སྨོན་ཤིས་བརྗོད།
Toh
809
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827

A group of canonical texts used as dedication prayers and expressions of auspiciousness to conclude the Tantra Collection.

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