Key to the Precious Treasury

Key to the Precious Treasury (T. mdzod kyi lde mig མཛོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་; pron. Dzökyi Demig). A commentary on the Guhyagarbha Tantra by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima.

In the life and liberation of Tertön Sogyal it says:

For days the scholar-hermit spoke about the origin of the tantric teachings in this world, and laid bare the most sublime meaning of mantra, mudra, mandala, empowerment, samaya, and other elements crucial to a yogi's practice. Tertön Sogyal sat by his side working as the scribe with a bamboo quill and rice paper. The Commentary was entitled The Key to the Precious Treasury, and Dodrupchen would say after they finished composing the treatise that it exposed his heart."

Full title

• Key to the Precious Treasury: A Brief Overview of the Glorious Secret Essence Tantra (T. dpal gsang ba'i snying po'i rgyud kyi spyi don nyung ngu'i ngag gis rnam par 'byed pa rin chen mdzod kyi lde mig)

Tibetan text and commentaries

Tibetan text

དཔལ་གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་སྤྱི་དོན་ཉུང་ངུའི་ངག་གིས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ་རིན་ཆེན་མཛོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་, dpal gsang ba'i snying po'i rgyud kyi spyi don nyung ngu'i ngag gis rnam par 'byed pa rin chen mdzod kyi lde mig

Commentaries

• Minling Khenchen Ngawang Khyentse Norbu, gsang snying mdzod lde'i mchan 'grel 'dzam gling nyi ma, Dehra Dun: Ngagyur Nyingma College, 2006

Translations

• Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpa'i Nyima, Key to the Precious Treasury: A Concise Commentary on the General Meaning of the "Glorious Secret Essence Tantra", translated by Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro of the Light of Berotsana Translation Group, Snow Lion, 2010
• Nathaniel DeWitt Garson, Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahāyoga System of rNying-ma Tantra, unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2004 (includes a translation of the first section)

External links

• Key to the Precious Treasury, Rigpa Shedra Wiki