Tibetan Kangyur
E59437
The Tibetan Kangyur is the canonical collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures containing the translated words of the Buddha, including sutras, tantras, and monastic rules.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kangyur | 6 |
| Tibetan Kangyur canonical | 4 |
| Tibetan Buddhist canon | 2 |
| Bka’ ’gyur (bka’ ’gyur) in Tibetan | 1 |
| Cone Kangyur | 1 |
| Derge Kangyur | 1 |
| Lhasa Kangyur | 1 |
| Narthang Kangyur | 1 |
| Peking Kangyur | 1 |
| Phudrak Kangyur | 1 |
| Tibetan Buddhist Canon | 1 |
| Urga Kangyur | 1 |
| “Kangyur” means “translated words” or “translation of the word” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T466554 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tibetan Kangyur Context triple: [Buddhism, scripture, Tibetan Kangyur]
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A.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
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B.
Mahayana sutras
The Mahayana sutras are a broad collection of later Buddhist scriptures that present the philosophical foundations, cosmology, and bodhisattva-centered ideals of Mahayana Buddhism.
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C.
Footsteps of the Master
Footsteps of the Master is a religious and devotional work by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflects on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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D.
Dasbodh
Dasbodh is a 17th-century Marathi spiritual and philosophical text by Samarth Ramdas that offers practical guidance on devotion, ethics, and everyday life.
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E.
Pacificatione Gandavensi
Pacificatione Gandavensi is the Latin name for the 1576 Pacification of Ghent, an agreement uniting the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands in opposition to Spanish rule during the Eighty Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tibetan Kangyur Target entity description: The Tibetan Kangyur is the canonical collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures containing the translated words of the Buddha, including sutras, tantras, and monastic rules.
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A.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
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B.
Mahayana sutras
The Mahayana sutras are a broad collection of later Buddhist scriptures that present the philosophical foundations, cosmology, and bodhisattva-centered ideals of Mahayana Buddhism.
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C.
Footsteps of the Master
Footsteps of the Master is a religious and devotional work by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflects on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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D.
Dasbodh
Dasbodh is a 17th-century Marathi spiritual and philosophical text by Samarth Ramdas that offers practical guidance on devotion, ethics, and everyday life.
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E.
Pacificatione Gandavensi
Pacificatione Gandavensi is the Latin name for the 1576 Pacification of Ghent, an agreement uniting the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands in opposition to Spanish rule during the Eighty Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist canon
ⓘ
collection of scriptures ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Indian Buddhist texts
ⓘ
Sanskrit originals ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | authoritative scripture collection in Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| classification |
Tibetan Kangyur
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bka’ ’gyur (bka’ ’gyur) in Tibetan
|
| complementedBy | Tibetan Tengyur ⓘ |
| contains |
Buddha’s discourses
ⓘ
Vinaya texts ⓘ monastic rules ⓘ sutras ⓘ tantras ⓘ |
| developedIn |
Tibet Autonomous Region
ⓘ
surface form:
Tibet
|
| distinguishedFrom | Tibetan Tengyur ⓘ |
| etymology |
Tibetan Kangyur
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
“Kangyur” means “translated words” or “translation of the word”
|
| hasPart |
Sutra section
ⓘ
Tantra section ⓘ Vinaya section ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Tibetan Kangyur
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cone Kangyur
Tibetan Kangyur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Derge Kangyur
Tibetan Kangyur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lhasa Kangyur
Tibetan Kangyur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Narthang Kangyur
Tibetan Kangyur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Peking Kangyur
Tibetan Kangyur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Phudrak Kangyur
Tibetan Kangyur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Urga Kangyur
|
| includes |
Āgamas
ⓘ
surface form:
Hinayana or Śrāvakayāna sutras
Mahayana sutras ⓘ tantric scriptures ⓘ |
| language | Tibetan ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tibetan Kangyur
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tibetan Buddhist canon
|
| preservedAs |
manuscripts
ⓘ
woodblock prints ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | preservation of Buddha’s teachings ⓘ |
| regardedAs | words of the Buddha ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousUse |
monastic education
ⓘ
ritual recitation ⓘ scriptural study ⓘ |
| scope |
Mahayana
ⓘ
surface form:
Mahayana Buddhism
Vajrayana ⓘ
surface form:
Vajrayana Buddhism
|
| script | Tibetan script ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfCompilation | roughly 8th to 14th centuries CE ⓘ |
| translationFrom |
Prakrits
ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
ⓘ
surface form:
Gelug school
Jonang school ⓘ Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ
surface form:
Kagyu school
Nyingma school ⓘ Sakya school ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tibetan Kangyur Description of subject: The Tibetan Kangyur is the canonical collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures containing the translated words of the Buddha, including sutras, tantras, and monastic rules.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tibetan Buddhist Canon
this entity surface form:
Tibetan Buddhist canon
this entity surface form:
Derge Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Narthang Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Peking Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Lhasa Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Cone Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Urga Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Phudrak Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Bka’ ’gyur (bka’ ’gyur) in Tibetan
this entity surface form:
“Kangyur” means “translated words” or “translation of the word”
this entity surface form:
Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Tibetan Buddhist canon
this entity surface form:
Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Kangyur
this entity surface form:
Kangyur