BDK English Tripiṭaka Downloads

BDK America is able to share publications in the BDK English Tripiṭaka series as high-quality PDFs.

Below we list all of our Tripiṭaka titles available as digital BDK Electronic Tripiṭaka (dBET).  

BDK America now offers PDFs of all published titles in the BDK English Tripiṭaka series, although some are in earlier PDF format and are identified as such as Alpha or Beta versions. (See more information about these versions in the column to the left.)

Other Publications. BDK America also now offers PDFs of publications beyond the BDK English Tripiṭaka series. See the end of the page, following the listing for the BDK English Tripiṭaka series in the page below. 

BDK Tripiṭaka

Apocryphal Scriptures (Taishō 2887, Taishō 389, Taishō 685, Taishō 784, Taishō 842) | View Product
The Awakening of Faith (Taishō 1666) | View Product
The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations (Taishō 2025) | View Product
The Biographical Scripture of King Aśoka (Taishō 2043) | View Product
A Biography of the Tripiṭaka Master of the Great Ci'en Monastery... (Taishō 2053) | View Product
The Blue Cliff Record (Taishō 2003) | View Product
The Brahmā’s Net Sutra (Taishō 1484) | View Product
Buddhacarita: In Praise of Buddha's Acts (Taishō 192) | View Product
Buddhist Monastic Traditions of Southern Asia (Taishō 2125) | View Product
The Canonical Book of the Buddha's Lengthy Discourses, Vol. I (Taishō 1) | View Product
The Canonical Book of the Buddha's Lengthy Discourses, Vol. II (Taishō 1) | View Product
The Collection for the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism, Vol. I (Taishō 2102) | View Product
The Collection for the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism, Vol. II (Taishō 2102) | View Product
A Comprehensive Commentary on the Heart Sutra (Taishō 1710) | View Product
Esoteric Texts (Taishō 1300, Taishō 1665, Taishō 243) | View Product
The Essentials of the Eight Traditions and The Candle of the Latter Dharma (Extra-canonical, Extra-canonical) | View Product
The Essentials of the Vinaya Tradition and The Collected Teachings of the Tendai Lotus School (Taishō 2348, Taishō 2366) | View Product
Expository Commentary on the Vimalakīrti Sutra (Taishō 2186) | View Product
The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions (Taishō 2087) | View Product
The Interpretation of the Buddha Land (Taishō 1530) | View Product
Kaimokushō or Liberation from Blindness (Taishō 2689) | View Product
Kyōgyōshinshō: On Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Enlightenment (Taishō 2646) | View Product
Lives of Great Monks and Nuns (Taishō 2046, Taishō 2047, Taishō 2049, Taishō 2063, Taishō 2085) | View Product
The Lotus Sutra, Revised Second Edition (Taishō 262) | View Product
The Madhyama Āgama (Middle-Length Discourses), Volume I (Taishō 26) | View Product
The Nirvana Sutra, Vol. I (Taishō 374) | View Product
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Taishō 2008) | View Product
The Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sutra and The Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sutra (Taishō 418, Taishō 642) | View Product
Prince Shōtoku's Commentary on the Śrīmālā-sūtra (Taishō 2185) | View Product
The Scriptural Text: Verses of the Doctrine, with Parables (Taishō 211) | View Product
The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning (Taishō 676) | View Product
Senchaku Hongan Nembutsu Shū: A Collection of Passages on the Nembutsu... (Taishō 2608) | View Product
Shingon Texts (Taishō 2426, Taishō 2427, Taishō 2428, Taishō 2429, Taishō 2430, Taishō 2514, Taishō 2527) | View Product
Shōbōgenzō: The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume I (Taishō 2582) | View Product
Shōbōgenzō: The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume II (Taishō 2582) | View Product
Shōbōgenzō: The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume III (Taishō 2582) | View Product
Shōbōgenzō: The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume IV (Taishō 2582) | View Product
The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables (Taishō 203) | View Product
The Summary of the Great Vehicle, Revised Second Edition (Taishō 1593) | View Product
The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā of the Lion's Roar and The Vimalakīrti Sutra (Taishō 353, Taishō 475) | View Product
The Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation (Taishō 614) | View Product
The Sutra That Expounds the Descent of Maitreya Buddha and His Enlightenment and The Sutra of Mañjuśrī’s Questions (Taishō 454, Taishō 468) | View Product
The Sutra on Upāsaka Precepts (Taishō 1488) | View Product
Tannishō: Passages Deploring Deviations of Faith and Rennyo Shōnin Ofumi: The Letters of Rennyo (Taishō 2661, Taishō 2668) | View Product
Three Chan Classics (Taishō 1985, Taishō 2005, Taishō 2010) | View Product
The Three Pure Land Sutras (Taishō 360, Taishō 365, Taishō 366) | View Product
Three Short Treatises by Vasubandhu, Sengzhao, and Zongmi (Taishō 1609, Taishō 1858, Taishō 1886) | View Product
Three Texts on Consciousness Only (Taishō 1585, Taishō 1586, Taishō 1590) | View Product
Tiantai Lotus Texts (Taishō 1519, Taishō 1931, Taishō 276, Taishō 277) | View Product
The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable, and The Cycle of the Formation of the Schismatic Doctrines (Taishō 1645, Taishō 2031) | View Product
Two Esoteric Sutras (Taishō 865, Taishō 893) | View Product
Two Nichiren Texts (Taishō 2688, Taishō 2692) | View Product
The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sutra (Taishō 848) | View Product
Zen Texts (Taishō 2012A, Taishō 2543, Taishō 2580, Taishō 2586) | View Product

Free: PDFs of Selected Publications

A Commentary with the Text of the Tannisho: Strategies for Modern Living [Print and PDF] () | View Product
Buddha-Dharma: The Way To Enlightenment, 2e (Paperback or PDF) () | View Product
[PDF] The Heart of the Buddha-Dharma: Following the Jodo Shinshu Path () | View Product
[PDF] Stories for Wisdom () | View Product

Free: Introductory Publications

Messages from the Buddha [Print, PDF, or Online] () | View Product
A Teaching a Day [Print and PDF] () | View Product