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'''Treasury of Word and Meaning''' (Tib. ''Tsik Dön Dzö''; [[Wyl.]] ''tshig don mdzod'') - one of the [[Seven Treasuries]] of [[Longchenpa]]. It is a summary of the ''[[Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle]]'', explaining the crucial points of practice.
'''Treasury of Word and Meaning''' (Tib. ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད་, ''Tsik Dön Dzö''; [[Wyl.]] ''tshig don mdzod'') - one of the [[Seven Treasuries]] of [[Longchenpa]]. It is a summary of the ''[[Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle]]'', explaining the crucial points of practice.


==Outline==
==Outline==
The text consists of 11 chapters:
The text consists of 11 chapters:


#the Ground and basis of reality (Wyl. ''gzhi''), how that ground dynamically manifests itself (Wyl. ''gzhir snang)'';
#the Ground and basis of reality (Tib. [[གཞི་]], Wyl. ''gzhi''), how that ground dynamically manifests itself (Tib. [[གཞི་སྣང་]], Wyl. ''gzhi snang)'';
#how [[sentient beings]] stray from the Ground;
#how [[sentient beings]] stray from the Ground;
#how all beings have the essence of Enlightened energy;
#how all beings have the essence of Enlightened energy;
#how [[primordial wisdom]] (Wyl. ''ye shes'') abides within us;
#how [[primordial wisdom]] (Tib. [[ཡེ་ཤེས་]], Wyl. ''ye shes'') abides within us;
#the pathways, and  
#the pathways, and  
#the gateways, and  
#the gateways, and  
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#signs in the dying and [[bardo]] transition; and  
#signs in the dying and [[bardo]] transition; and  
#ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the [[kaya]]s.
#ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the [[kaya]]s.
==Tibetan Text==
* {{TBRCW|O1PD14|O1PD1470$W1PD8|གསང་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གནས་གསུམ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་ཚིག་དོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་, ''gsang ba bla na med pa 'od gsal rdo rje'i snying po'i gnas gsum gsal bar byed pa'i tshig don rin po che'i mdzod''}}


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 03:50, 21 March 2011

Longchen Rabjam

Treasury of Word and Meaning (Tib. ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད་, Tsik Dön Dzö; Wyl. tshig don mdzod) - one of the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa. It is a summary of the Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle, explaining the crucial points of practice.

Outline

The text consists of 11 chapters:

  1. the Ground and basis of reality (Tib. གཞི་, Wyl. gzhi), how that ground dynamically manifests itself (Tib. གཞི་སྣང་, Wyl. gzhi snang);
  2. how sentient beings stray from the Ground;
  3. how all beings have the essence of Enlightened energy;
  4. how primordial wisdom (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་, Wyl. ye shes) abides within us;
  5. the pathways, and
  6. the gateways, and
  7. domain for primordial wisdom;
  8. how primordial wisdom is experientially accessed;
  9. signs of realization,
  10. signs in the dying and bardo transition; and
  11. ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the kayas.

Tibetan Text

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).