Tsigdön Dzö
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Tsigdön Dzö (T. tshig don mdzod ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད) is one of the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa.
The full name for the work is 'The Treasury of Precious Words and Meanings' (T. tshig don rin po che'i mdzod ཚིག་དོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད).
Longchenpa wrote 'The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle' (T. theg mchog mdzod) as an autocommentary to this work.
Outline of text
The text consists of 11 chapters:[1]
- the 'ground and basis of reality' (Wylie: gzhi) and how that 'ground' dynamically manifests itself (Wylie: gzhir snang);
- how sentient beings stray from the 'ground';
- how all sentient beings have the essence of enlightened energy;
- how 'primordial wisdom' (Wylie: ye shes) 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 transition; and
- ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the kayas.
Tibetan text
English translations
- Precious Treasury of the Genuine Meaning, translated by Lama Chönam and Sangyé Khandro (Ashland: Berotsana Publications, 2015) Berotsana website
- Excerpts in Tulku Thondup, The Practice of Dzogchen (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989), includes an abridged translation of chapter 11.
- Excerpts in Karl Brunnhölzl, A Lullaby to Awaken the Heart: The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra and Its Tibetan Commentaries (Sommerville: Wisdom Publications, 2018), Appendices 2 & 7.
Further reading
- David Germano, Poetic thought, the intelligent Universe, and the mystery of self: The Tantric synthesis of rDzogs Chen in fourteenth century Tibet (PhD dissertation), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
- Tulku Thondup, The Practice of Dzogchen, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989, pp. 205-213, pp. 400-401 and pp. 413-420 (includes an abridged translation of chapter 11).
Notes
- ↑
Treasury of Word and Meaning, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
External links
- Treasury of Word and Meaning, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Tsigdön Dzö, Wikipedia
