Compendium on Reality

Shantarakshita

Compendium on Reality (Skt. Tattvasaṃgraha; Tib. དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བསྡུས་པའི་ཙིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་, dé khona nyi düpé tsik le'ur jepa, Wyl. de kho na nyid bsdus pa'i tsig le'ur byas pa) by Shantarakshita

Outline

It has 30 chapters:

1. rang bzhin brtag pa
2. dbang phyug brtag pa
3. gnyis ka brtag pa
4. 'gro ba rang bzhin du smra ba brtag
5. sbya'i tsangs pa brtag pa
6. skyes bu brtag pa
7. rigs pa can dang bye brag pas kun tu brtags pa'i skyes bu brtag pa
8. dpyod pa pas brtags pa'i bdag brtag pa
9. ser skya pas kun du brtags pa'i bdag brtag pa
10. nam mkha'i gos can gyis kun tu brtags pa'i bdag brtag pa
11. au pa ni sha kas brtags pa'i bdag brtag pa
12. gnas ma'i bus brtags pa'i bdag brtag pa
13. brtan pa'i dngos po brtag pa
14. las dang 'bras bu'i 'brel pa brtag pa
15. rdzas kyi tsig gi don brtag pa
16. yon tan gyi tsig gi don brtag pa
17. las kyi tsig gi don brtag pa
18. spyi dang bye brag gi tsig gi don brtag pa
19. ‘du ba'i tsig gi don brtag pa
20. sgra'i don brtag pa
21. mngon sum gyi mtsan nyid brtag pa
22. rjes su dpag pa brtag pa
23. tsad ma gzhan brtag pa
24. 'gyur bar smra ba brtag pa
25. dus gsum brtag pa
26. 'jig rten rgyang pan pa'i brtag pa
27. phyi rol gyi don brtag pa
28. thos pa brtag pa
29. rang las tsad ma brtag pa
30. gzhan gyi dbang po las 'das pa'i don mthong ba can gyi skyes bu brtag pa

Commentaries

• Kamalashila, Tattvasaṃgraha-pañjikā

Further Reading

• Sara McClintock, Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason in the Tattvasaṃgraha and Tattvasaṃgraha-pañjikā, PhD disseration, Harvard University, 2002
• Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason: Santaraksita and Kamalasila on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism), Sara L. McClintock, Wisdom Publications (October 12, 2010), ISBN 978-0861716616