THIS is a list of the titles of the scriptures of the Bon religion of Tibet. More specifically, it is a listing of the main titles contained in the Third Edition of the Bon Kanjur. The 3rd edition is the single most legible, organized and useful edition, since a great deal of ་time and trouble was put into its publication. It appears to be a faithfully reinscribed copy of what may well be the only complete Bon scriptural collection to survive into the modern world, the Dbal-khyung Manuscript.
Note: It is technically incorrect to call the scriptures of Bon by the name Kanjur (བཀའ་འགྱུར་), since Bonpos call it simply Ka (བཀའ་), meaning The Word. Still, like some Bonpos do occasionally, we follow the better-known terminology of the Chos schools of Tibetan Buddhism (as adopted into English via Mongolian).
The publisher was the wellknown contemporary teacher Mongyal Lhasay (སྨོན་རྒྱལ་ལྷ་སྲས་—Smon-rgyal Lha-sras). This collection is supposed to be entirely based on the Dbal-khyung manuscript Kanjur. This particular Kanjur known as the དབལ་ཁྱུང་(Dbal-khyung) was brought from ནག་ཆུ་ཁ་(Nag-chu-kha) to ཉག་རོང་(Nyag-rong) by the གཏེར་སྟོན་གསང་སྔགས་གླིང་པ་— gter-ston Gsang-sngags-gling-pa (b. 1864), and surreptitiously preserved in a cave throughout the years of the Cultural Revolution (1965-1976). Ayong Rinpoche's letter of Dec. 1995 says that they planned (in 1995) to publish more than 300 copies. A second print-run of 500 copies was done during the 11th month of 1999. This collection has also been made available in the form of a set of 14 CDs (containing PDFs reproducing the whole set), by The Bon Foundation in New York.
For more details about the content, including chapter titles, consult the TBRC website, at their resource code no. W21872. The direct link is here: http://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W21872
The listing that follows down below has also appeared as Appendix B contained in: Tseyang Changngoba (Lhasa), Namgyal Nyima Dagkar (Bonn), Per Kværne (Oslo), Dondrup Lhagyal (Lhasa), Dan Martin (Jerusalem), Donatella Rossi (Rome), and Tsering Thar (Beijing), A Catalogue of the Bon Kanjur, National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Ethnological Reports series no. 40, series editor Yasuhiko Nagano (Osaka 2003), pages 783-790. This is a very detailed catalog — done by a committee at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Oslo, Norway — of the 2nd edition of the Bon Kanjur, in 192 volumes.
For yet another listing of the contents of the 3rd edition, see Kurt Keutzer & Kevin O’Neill, A Handlist of the Bonpo Kangyur and Tengyur. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, vol. 17 (October 2009), pp. 63-128. Try this direct link: http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_17_04.pdf
Added here are the titles in Unicode Tibetan script, since this will make it findable by more Tibetan language web users.
The collection is divided into four major sections, with the addition of the Brgyud-rim (Lineage Record) text, in a volume marked "zero." So there are 178 volumes plus one, meaning the following volume, which might be placed at the beginning or the end:
0. སྐུ་གསུམ་སྟོན་པའི་གསུང་རབ་བཀའ་འགྱུར་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ལུང་རྒྱུན་ཇི་སྙེད་པ་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པའི་བཞུགས་བྱང་བརྒྱུད་རིམ་དང་བཅས་པ་དྲི་མེད་ཤེལ་གྱི་ཕྲེང་བ།—Sku gsum ston pa'i gsung rab bka' 'gyur rin po che'i lung rgyun ji snyed pa phyogs gcig tu bsdus pa'i bzhugs byang brgyud rim dang bcas pa dri med shel gyi phreng ba. 214 pp. Note: This unnumbered volume represents a new and much clearer text of the Lineage Record (བརྒྱུད་རིམ་—brGyud rim) compiled by དབྲ་སྟོན་ངག་དབང་སྐལ་བཟང་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་—dBra-ston Ngag-dbang-skal-bzang-bstan-pa'i-rgyal-mtshan in 1929. A version of this text, based on the 2nd edition (its pages unfortunately printed out of order), is found here: https://sites.google.com/site/tibetological/transmission-document-of-bon
Sutra Section (མདོ་སྡེ།—Mdo Sde):
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Hundred Thousand Section (འབུམ་སྡེ།—'Bum Sde):
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Mantra Section (སྔགས་སྡེ།—Sngags Sde):
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Mind Section (སེམས་སྡེ།—Sems Sde):
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