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() is a textual work written in
Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning
Translated by Light of Berotsana. Snow Lion 2015, revised 2020.
(accessed: Friday December 18, 2009)
Yoniversum page on The Seven Treasuries
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsigdon Dzo Nyingma texts
() is a textual work written in Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period. Though it extends from the 7th century until the modern day (along with Arabic, Ge'ez, and New Persian, it is one of the handful of 'living' ...
and one of the Seven Treasuries
The Seven Treasuries (, THL: ''Dzö Dün''), are a collection of seven works, some with auto-commentaries, by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Longchenpa (1308–1364). They constitute his most influential scholarly output and together provide a sy ...
of Longchenpa
Longchen Rabjam Drimé Özer (), or simply Longchenpa (1308–1364, "The Great One Who Is the Vast Cosmic Expanse") was a Tibetan scholar-yogi of the Nyingma school, the 'Old School' of Tibetan Buddhism. According to tibetologist David German ...
. Longchenpa wrote 'The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle' (Wylie: ) as an autocommentary to this work.
Tsigdön Dzö is a collection of teachings and practices. The text is believed to have originated in India and was later transmitted to Tibet, where it became part of the treasure tradition of revealed teachings (terma) in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The teachings in the Tsigdön Dzö are believed to be powerful and efficacious in bringing wealth and prosperity to those who practice them correctly.
Title
The full name for the work is 'The Treasury of Precious Words and Meanings' ().Outline of text
Rigpa Shedra (August 2009) provide a useful outline of the text which in its original composition consists of eleven chapters from which the following summary is founded: # the 'ground and basis of reality' (Wylie: gzhi) and how that 'ground' dynamically manifests itself (Wylie: ); # howsentient beings
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Some writers define sentience exclusively as the capacity for ''v ...
stray from the 'ground';
# how all sentient beings have the essence of enlightened energy;
# how ' primordial wisdom' (Wylie: ) abides within us;
# the pathways;
# the gateways;
# domain for 'primordial wisdom';
# how primordial wisdom is experientially accessed;
# signs of realization;
# signs in the dying and ''bardo
In some schools of Buddhism, ''bardo'' ( Wylie: ''bar do'') or ''antarābhava'' (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as ''zhōng yǒu'' and in Japanese as ''chū'u'') is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state b ...
'' transition; and
# ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the ''kayas''.
English Translations
Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning
Translated by Light of Berotsana. Snow Lion 2015, revised 2020.
Western scholarship
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche (1989) has partially translated chapter eleven.Tulku Thondup (1989). ''The Practice of Dzogchen''. Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989, pp. 205-213, pp. 400-401 and pp. 413-420.Notes
External links
* Rigpa Shedra (August 2009). 'Treasury of Word and Meaning'. Source(accessed: Friday December 18, 2009)
Yoniversum page on The Seven Treasuries
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