Sponsor a Sūtra

This is your opportunity to support the completion of an entire text from the Tibetan Buddhist canon into English. Your generous contribution will ensure that the wisdom and methods taught by the Buddha will continue to be accessible for current and future generations.

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How Sponsor a Sūtra Works

The length of the sūtras varies considerably. To help you select one, we have grouped our available texts into tiers, each representing a distinct level of sponsorship.

1. Choose a tier that suits you, and select a text of your choice

Your sponsorship will provide the funding required to support the complete translation process of a major text. This may include: research, editorial review, and pre-publication digital markup. It may also contribute to related project management, translation tool development, and the development of our online content platform, as well as technological research.*

  • TIER 1: 50 pages (USD 20,000)
  • TIER 2: 100 pages (USD 40,000)
  • TIER 3: 150 pages (USD 60,000)
  • TIER 4: 200 pages (USD 80,000)
  • TIER 5: More than 200 pages
  • TIER 6: Texts from the Tengyur

Contact us at sutrasponsors@84000.co to let us know the text of your choice, and a team member will be in touch to confirm your pledge.

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*For administrative purposes, we consider all donations to be unrestricted contributions. 
2. Share the merit with your loved ones by including them in the sponsorship acknowledgement

In appreciation of your generous support, the names you share with us are recognized in the “Acknowledgements” section of your sponsored publication. The online publication remains freely available for everyone.

All acknowledgement names are offered for prayers, biennially, during the Dzongsar Mönlam prayer festival in Bodhgaya, India. 

3. Receive progress updates from us 

Sponsoring an entire sūtra is a major gift, and we want you to feel informed about how work on your text is progressing. You will receive progress reports when your text has been fully translated, and when it is nearing publication. You will also receive annual letters from the executive director with updates on the organization’s general progress and future plans.

Choosing a Text to Sponsor

The sūtras available for sponsorship are listed in five tiers, conveniently grouped by their length. The lengthier a text, the more time, resources, and effort are needed for its translation and publication. We deeply appreciate your continuous support and generosity.

Tier 1: Sponsorship of up to 50 Tibetan pages (USD 20,000)

Toh
77
Chapter
Kangyur
Discourses
Heap of Jewels
The Sūtra of Vimaladatta's Questions
[No Sanskrit title]
Vimaladattaparipṛcchāsūtra
|
[No Tibetan title]
དྲི་མ་མེད་ཀྱིས་བྱིན་པས་ཞུས་པའི་མདོ།
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
88
Chapter
Kangyur
Discourses
Heap of Jewels
The Mass of Jewels
[No Sanskrit title]
Ratnarāśisūtra
|
[No Tibetan title]
རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕུང་པོའི་མདོ།
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
230
Chapter
Kangyur
Discourses
General Sūtra Section
The Sūtra on the Splendid Commitments of the Tathāgatas
[No Sanskrit title]
Tathāgataśrīsamayasūtra
|
[No Tibetan title]
དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་དཔལ་གྱི་དམ་ཚིག་གི་མདོ།
Sponsorship:
Available

Tier 2: Sponsorship of up to 100 Tibetan pages (USD 40,000)

Toh
483
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
The Tantra Purifying Evil Destinies
[No Sanskrit title]
Sarvadurgatipariśodhanatejorāja
|
[No Tibetan title]
ངན་སོང་སྦྱོང་རྒྱུད།
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
485
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
A Portion of the Practice of the Sovereign Tantra Purifying Evil Destinies
[No Sanskrit title]
Sarvadurgati­pariśodhanatejorājasya kalpaikadeśaḥ
|
[No Tibetan title]
ངན་སོང་ཡོངས་སུ་སྦྱོང་བ་རྒྱལ་པོའི་བརྟག་པ་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་པ།
Sponsorship:
Available

Tier 3: Sponsorship of up to 150 Tibetan pages (USD 60,000)

Toh
220
Chapter
Kangyur
Discourses
General Sūtra Section
The Buddha’s Collected Teachings Repudiating Those Who Violate the Discipline
[No Sanskrit title]
Buddha­piṭaka­duḥśīla­nigraha
|
[No Tibetan title]
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྡེ་སྣོད་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་འཆལ་པ་ཚར་གཅོད་པ།
When Śāriputra voices amazement at how the Buddha uses words to point out the inexpressible ways in which nothing has true existence, the Buddha responds with an uncompromising teaching on how the lack of true existence and the absence of a self are indeed not simply philosophical views but the very cornerstone of the Dharma. To have understood, realized, and applied them fully is the main quality by which someone may be considered a member of the saṅgha and authorized to teach others and to receive offerings.
Toh Package:
Sponsorship:
Reserved
Toh
490
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
The Tantra, the Ornament of the Vajra Essence
[No Sanskrit title]
Vajramaṇḍālaṃkāratantra
|
[No Tibetan title]
རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྒྱུད།
Toh Package:
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
492
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
The Tantra of the Array of Secret Ornaments
[No Sanskrit title]
Guhyālaṃkāravyūhatantra
|
[No Tibetan title]
གསང་བ་རྒྱན་བཀོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད།
Toh Package:
492 + 493
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
493
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
The Sūtra of the Secret Jewel Ornament
[No Sanskrit title]
Guhyamaṇitilakasūtra
|
[No Tibetan title]
གསང་བ་ནོར་བུ་ཐིག་ལེའི་མདོ།
Toh Package:
492 + 493
Sponsorship:
Available

Tier 4: Sponsorship of up to 200 Tibetan pages (USD 80,000)

Toh
1
Chapter
2
Kangyur
Discipline
Discipline
The Chapter on the Restoration Rite
[No Sanskrit title]
Poṣadhavastu
|
[No Tibetan title]
གསོ་སྦྱོང་གི་གཞི།
The Chapter on Purification narrates the origins of the monastic “confession” ceremony. This ceremony, called Poṣadha in Sanskrit, is the very foundation of monastic life throughout Asia. To this day, monks and nuns gather twice a month for Poṣadha to reaffirm their vows and restore the bonds that knit together the monastic community
Toh Package
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
7
Chapter
Kangyur
Discipline
Discipline
Preeminent Account of Discipline
[No Sanskrit title]
Vinayottaragrantha
|
[No Tibetan title]
འདུལ་བ་གཞུང་བླ་མ།
Toh Package
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
488
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
A Section of the Chapter on Mantras of "The Supreme"
[No Sanskrit title]
Paramādyamantrakalpakhaṇḍa
|
[No Tibetan title]
རྟོག་པའི་དུམ་བུ།
This text is classified as a Yogatantra. In India, this tantra was united with the previous text in the Kangyur (Toh 487) as a single text. But in the Tibetan Kangyur they are represented as two individual texts, since different teams of translators rendered the two parts into Tibetan at different times. The teacher of the tantra is Vairocana but the rituals also focus on the Buddha Vajrasattva.
Toh Package
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh
831
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Old Tantras
The Sūtra of All-Gathering Awareness
[No Sanskrit title]
Vajrakulatantra­piṇḍārtha­vidyāyogasiddha
|
[No Tibetan title]
ཀུན་འདུས་རིག་པའི་མདོ།
Toh Package
Sponsorship:
Available

Tier 5: Sponsorship of more than 200 Tibetan pages (USD 120,000)

Toh
479
Chapter
Kangyur
Tantra
Yoga tantras
The Compendium of Realities
[No Sanskrit title]
Tattvasaṃgraha
|
[No Tibetan title]
དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བསྡུས་པ།
Toh Package
Sponsorship:
Available

Tier 6: Available Texts from The Tengyur

Toh
1181
Chapter
94
Pages
Tengyur
Tantra
Non-dual tantra
A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Hevajra Tantra called “A Pond of Lotuses”
[No Sanskrit title]
Hevajra­tantra­pañjikā­padminī­nāma
|
[No Tibetan title]
ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ་པདྨ་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།
Sponsorship:
Priority
Toh Package
USD 68,000
OR
X
Toh
1183
Chapter
120
Pages
Tengyur
Tantra
Non-dual tantra
A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Hevajra Tantra called “The Precious Garland of Yoga”
[No Sanskrit title]
Yoga­ratna­mālā­nāma­hevajra­pañjikā
|
[No Tibetan title]
དགྱེས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།
Sponsorship:
Priority
Toh Package
USD 68,000
OR
X
Toh
1607
Chapter
256
Pages
Tengyur
Tantra
Other wisdom tantras
A Commentary on the “Sovereign Tantra in Four Parts” called “Binding the Memorable”
[No Sanskrit title]
Śrī­catuḥpīṭha­tantra­rājasya­ṭīkā­smṛti­nibandha­nāma
|
[No Tibetan title]
རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་གདན་བཞི་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་དྲན་པའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh Package
USD 170,000
OR
USD 42,500
X
4
Toh
1785
Chapter
401
Pages
Tengyur
Tantra
Guhyasamāja and related tantras
An Extensive Commentary called “The Brightening Lamp”
[No Sanskrit title]
Pradīpoddyotana­nāma­ṭīkā
|
[No Tibetan title]
སྒྲོན་མ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ།
Sponsorship:
Available
Toh Package
USD 280,00
OR
USD 56,000
X
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