| AAWG | Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschften in Göttingen |
| ADAW | Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin |
| AN | Aṅguttara-Nikāya, 5 vols, Morris (1885-1900) |
| Abhidh-d | Abhidharmadīpa with Vibhāṣāprabhāvṛtti (TIBETAN SANSKRIT WORKS SERIES, 4), Jaini (1977) |
| Abhidh-k-bh | Vasubandhu, Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (TIBETAN SANSKRIT WORKS SERIES, 8), Pra-dhan (1975) |
| Abhidh-k-vy | Yaśomitra, Sphuṭārthā Abhidharmakośavyākhyā, 2 parts, Wogihara (1932-1936) |
| Abhidh-sam-bh | Abhidharmasamuccayabhāṣya (Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series, 17), Tatia (1976) |
| Ads | Alpadevatāsūtra: "Notes on the Gilgit Manuscripts" ギルギット写本備忘録, Matsumura (1983) |
| Akanuma | Bukkyō keiten shi ron 佛教経典史論, Akanuma (1939) |
| Ans | Anityatāsūtra, Yamada (1972) |
| Avś | Avadānaśataka (Bibliotheca Buddica, 3), 2 vols., Speyer (1902-1909) |
| BBS | Bruchstücke buddhistischer Sūtras aus dem zentralasiatischen Sanskritkanon, 1 (Kleinere Sanksrit-Texte, 4), Waldschmidt (1932) |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the school of oriental and African studies |
| BTKN | Buddhist Texts from Kashgar and Nepal, Minayeff (1983) |
| BZA | Bieyi zaahan jing《別譯雜阿含經》, T.02.0100 [Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama] |
| Bil | Zu einigen Bilinguen aus den Turfan-funden, Waldschmidt (1955) |
| Buddhac | Aśvaghoṣa, Buddhacarita, transl (1935) |
| CASF | “Central Asian Sūtra Fragments and their Relation to the Chinese Āgamas,” in: H. Bechert, Die Sprache der ältesten buddhistischen Überlieferung (Symposien zur Buddhismusforschung, 2; AAWG, 117), Waldschmidt (1980) |
| CPS | Das Catuṣpaiṣatsūtra (ADAW, 1952,2; 1956,1; 1960,1), Waldschmidt (1952-1962) |
| CT | Von Ceylon bis Turfan, Waldschmidt (1967) |
| CandraSū | Buddha Frees the Disc of the Moon (Candra-sūtra), Waldschmidt (1970) |
| Comp.Cat. | Kanpa shibu shiagon goshōroku 漢巴四部四阿含互照錄 - The Comparative Catalogue of Chinese Āgamas and Pāli Nikāyas, Akanuma (1929) |
| DN | Dīghanikāya, 3 vols, Rhys Davids (1890-1911) |
| Dhp | Dhammapada, Hinüber (1994) |
| Dhp-a | Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā, 5 vols, Norman (1929) |
| Divy | Divyāvadāna, Cowell (1886) |
| Ds | Devatāsūtra: The Devatāsūtra and Alpadevatā-sūtra" Devatāsūtra と Alpadevatāsūtra, Matsumura (1982) |
| Eno 1982 | Zōagon 1299 kyō to 1329 kyō o megutte 雑阿含1299経と1329経をめぐって [On the Saṃyuktāgama sutras 1299 and 1329], Enomoto (1982) |
| Frgm.SĀ(Eno) | 『雜阿含』關係の梵文寫本斷片 『Turfan出土梵文寫本目錄』第5卷をめぐつて, Enomoto (1985) |
| GM | Gilgit Manuscripts, 4 vols., Dutt (1939-1959) |
| GanSū | (Fragment of the) Gandhasūtra: Drei Frag-mente buddhistischer Sūtras aus den Turfanhandschriften, Waldschmidt (1968) |
| It | Itivuttaka, Windisch (1889) |
| JBRS | Journal of the Bihar Research Society |
| Jā | Jātaka, together with its Commentary, 6 vols, Fausbøll (1877-1896) |
| MN | Majjhima-Nikāya, 3 vols, Trenckner (1888-1899) |
| MPS | Das Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra (ADAW, 1949,1; 1950,2,3), Waldschmidt (1950-1951) |
| MR | Manuscript remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan: Facsimiles with Transcripts Translations and Notes Edited in Conjunctions with other Scholars vol 1, Hoernle (1916) |
| MSV | Mūla-sarvāstivāda-vinayavastu |
| MSjSū | Mahāsamājasūtra |
| Maitr-vyāk | Maitreyavyākaraṇa, Lévi (1932) |
| Mvu III | Mahāvastu-Avadāna, 3 vols.,, Basak (1963-68) |
| Näther | Das Gilgit-Fragment Or. 11878A im Britischen Museum zu London, Näther (1975) |
| OLZ | Orientalische Literaturzeitung |
| SHT | Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, Waldschmidt (1965) |
| SN | Saṃyutta-Nikāya, 5 vols, Feer (1884-1898) |
| STBK, 1 | Sanskrit-Texte aus dem buddhistischen Kanon. Vol. 1(Beihefte zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden), Enomoto (1989) |
| STT | Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden |
| Saṅghabh | The Gilgit manuscript of the Saṅghabhedavastu (Serie Orientale Roma, 49), 2 parts, Gnoli (1978) |
| Saṅghabh 1 | The Gilgit manuscript of the Saṅghabhedavastu: Being the 17th and last section of the Vinaya of the Mūlasarvāstivādin, Part I ( = Serie Orientale Roma, XLIX, 1), Gnoli (1977) |
| T | Taishō Edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon as found in the CBETA corpus of Buddhist texts 《大正新脩大藏經》CBETA電子資料庫光碟版 |
| Th | Theragāthā, in: Theragāthā and Therīgāthā, Oldenberg (1966) |
| Thī | Therīgāthā, in: Theragāthā and Therīgāthā, Oldenberg (1966) |
| TsP | Kamalaśīla, Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā, in: Swami Dwarikadas Shastri, Tattvasaṅgraha of Ācārya Śāntarakṣita with the Commentary Pañjikā of Śrī Kamalaśīla, 2 vols |
| Ud | Udāna, Steinthal (1885) |
| Uv | Udānavarga, 2 vols. (STT, 10; AAWG, 54), Bernhard (1965-1968) |
| VOHD | Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland |
| VSthSū | Vidyāsthānopamasūtra, in Kleine Brāhmī-Schriftrolle, Waldschmidt (1959) |
| Vin | Vinayapiṭaka, Oldenberg (1879-1883) |
| Vism | Buddhaghosa, Visuddhimagga, 2 vols, Rhys Davids (1920-1921) |
| YL | Ein buddhistisches Yogalehrbuch (STT. 7; Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung, Veröffentlichung 59), Schlingloff (1964) |
| Ybhūm | Yogācārabhūmi manuscript |
| Ybhūn | Nirupadhikā Bhūmiḥ of the Yogācārabhūmi, "Yogācārabhūmi: Sopadhikā and Nirupadhikā Bhūmiḥ,", Schmithausen (1991) |
| Ybhūś | Śarīrārthagāthā of the Yogācārabhūmi, Enomoto (1989) |
| ZA | Zaahan jing《雜阿含經》，T.02.0099 [Longer Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama] |
| Āps | Āyuḥparyantasūtra, Matsumura (1989) |
| Śay-v | The Gilgit Manuscript of the Śayanāsanavastu and the Adhikaraṇavastu (SERIE ORIENTALE ROMA, 50), Gnoli (1978) |
| Śay-vw | Śayanāsanavastu: The Gilgit Manuscript of the Śayanāsanavastu and the Adhikaraṇavastu (SERIE ORIENTALE ROMA, 50) |
| Śrāv-bh | Śrāvakabhūmi, Shukla (1973) |