Tengyur

The Tengyur or Tanjur or Bstan-’gyur (Tibetan: "Translation of Teachings") is included in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of all of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings, and is placed after the Kangyur. The Tengyur is the collected commentaries by great buddhist masters on the Buddha's teachings. The Kangyur are the Buddha's recorded teachings.

The Buddhist Canon
To the Tengyur were assigned commentaries to both Sutras and Tantras, treatises and abhidharma works (both Mahayana and non-Mahayana).

Together with the 108-volume Kangyur (the Collection of the Words of the Buddha), these form the basis of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. "The Kangyur usually takes up a hundred or a hundred and eight volumes, the Tengyur two hundred and twenty-five, and the two together contain 4,569 works."

As example, the content of the Beijing Tengyur:


 * Stotras ("Hymns of Praise"): 1 Volume; 64 texts.
 * Commentaries on the Tantras: 86 Volumes; 3055 texts.
 * Commentaries on Sutras; 137 Volumes; 567 texts.


 * 1) Prajnaparamita Commentaries, 16 Volumes.
 * 2) Madhyamika Treatises, 29 Volumes.
 * 3) Yogacara Treatises, 29 Volumes.
 * 4) Abhidharma, 8 Volumes.
 * 5) Miscellaneous Texts, 4 Volumes.
 * 6) Vinaya Commentaries, 16 Volumes.
 * 7) Tales and Dramas, 4 Volumes.
 * 8) Technical Treatises, 43 Volumes.

The Bön Tengyur
The Tibetan Bön religion, under the influence of Buddhism, also has its canon literature divided into two sections called the Kangyur and Tengyur but the number and contents of the collection are not yet fully known. Apparently, Bön began to take on a more literary form about the time Buddhism began to enter Tibet, although it could have had some written records some time before that.