Original Teacher of the Bönpo Tradition
The Bönpo Textual Collection
Host: Rice University
Collection Director: Anne Klein
The Bönpo Literature Collection is an electronic and collaborative project, hosted by Rice University, aiming at the reproduction, analysis, interpretation, and translation of Tibetan literature found within the indigenous Bönpo tradition. Our initial focus is on cataloguing the various editions of the canonical collection of Bönpo scriptures known as Oral Lineages of Zhang Zhung (zhang zhung snyan brgyud). The Collection is based at the E-Text Center of the Fondren Library, and is one of multiple collections being developed in the Tibetan Language and Literature Archive component of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library.
The Bönpo Textual Collections also has plans for cataloging the Bön version of The Translations of Precepts (bKa' 'gyur, pr. Kangyur)and The Translations of the Treatises (bsTan 'gyur, pr. Tengyur), which have recently been published in Tibet. The preliminary cataloging of some volumes of The Translations of Treatises is already underway. Brief outlines of the contents of these two historically and doctrinally important canons can be found at: