Bön Kangyur and Tengyur
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The Bön Kangyur and Tengyur are collections of canonical texts of the Tibetan Bön religion. Like the Tibetan Buddhist canon, the Bönpo canon consists of two complementary collections: the Kangyur (Wylie: bka'-'gyur) or translated word, consisting of 179 large volumes containing teachings attributed to Tonpa Shenrab (Wylie: sTon pa gshen rab), the legendary founder of the Bön religion; and the Tengyur (Wylie: brTen ‘gyur) containing commentaries on those teachings, as well as cycles of additional instructions, biographies, and rituals. These canonical texts were supposedly translated from original texts in the Zhang-Zhung language.
Bön Kangyur[]
The 179 volume Bön Kangyur consists of five sections:
- 1. Sutra section known as the Do-de (Wylie: mdo sde)(vol. 1-74)
- 2. section known as the Boom-de (Wylie: 'bum sde) (vol. 75-144)
- 3. Mantra (or Tantra) section known as the Ngak-de Wylie: 'sngags sde (vol. 145-170)
- 4. Mind (or Dzogchen) section Wylie: sems sde (vol. 171-178)
- 5. Lineage of the teachings Wylie: brgyud rim (vol. 179)
Bön Tengyur[]
This collection, also known as the Katen བཀའ་བརྟེན། (Treatises Relying on the Word), contains commentaries on the Kangyur, as well as instructions for practitioners.
Sources[]
- Martin, Dan; Yasuhiko Nagano; Kværne, Per; Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan, eds. (2003), A Catalogue of the Bon Kanjur, Senri Ethnological Reports, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, ISBN 978-4901906128
- Martin, Dan (2003), "Introduction", in Martin, Dan; Yasuhiko Nagano; Kværne, Per; Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan (eds.), A Catalogue of the Bon Kanjur, Senri Ethnological Reports, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, ISBN 978-4901906128
- Karmay, Samten G.; Yasuhiko Nagano; Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan (2001), A Catalogue of the New Collection of Bonpo Katen Texts, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology
- Keutzer, Kurt; 0'Neill, Kevin (2009), "A Handlist of the Bonpo Kangyur and Tengyurs", Revue d'Études Tibétaines, Paris: l'UMR 8155 du CNRS (17): 63–128, ISSN 1768-2959
- Achard, Jean-Luc (2015). "On the Canon Bönpo of the Collège de France Institute of Tibetan Studies". La Lettre du Collège de France. Collège de France (9): 108–109. doi:10.4000/lettre-cdf.2225. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
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External links[]
- Bön Kangyur at BDRC
- Bön Tengyur at BDRC
- Bon
- Tibetan literature
- Religion in Tibet
- Religion in the Himalayas