Yönten Dzö

Jikmé Lingpa

Yönten Dzö (Wyl. yon tan mdzod) — The Treasury of Precious Qualities, the famous treatise by Jikmé Lingpa, in which he expounds the entire Buddhist path, from the shravaka yana teachings up to the Great Perfection.

Outline

The text has thirteen chapters:

1. The Difficulty of Gaining the Freedoms and Advantages
2. Death and Impermanence
3. Karma: Cause and Effect
4. The Sufferings of Samsara
5. The Four Wheels, which are the initial entry point for supreme beings
6. Taking Refuge, the entrance to the Buddhist Path
7. The Entrance to the Actual Mahayana (cultivating the four immeasurables)
8. Arousing Bodhichitta
9. The Bodhisattva Trainings
10. The Pitaka of the Vidyadharas
11. The Nature of the Ground
12. The Extraordinary Path of the Natural Great Perfection
13. The Kayas and Wisdoms of the Ultimate Fruition

The first nine chapters comprise the sutra section, and the last four comprise the mantra section.

Commentaries

In Tibetan

• Jikmé Lingpa himself, shing rta rnam gnyis
• Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer
• Ngawang Tendar, yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi dka' gnad rdo rje'i rgya mdud 'gro byed legs bshad gser gyi thur ma
• Patrul Rinpoche
• Khenpo Yönga zla ba'i 'od zer
• Khenpo Yönga nyi ma'i 'od zer
• Kangyur Rinpoche
• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi mchan 'grel theg gsum bdud rtsi'i nying khu

Translations

• Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities, Shambhala, 2001 (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary, not the root verses, for the first nine chapters only)
• Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One, revised edition Shambhala, 2010. (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary for the first nine chapters, and also contains the root verses).
• Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities Book Two, Shambhala, 2013 (release date: 18 June 2013). The second part of a commentary on the Treasury of Precious Qualities.
• Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems, Padma Publishing, 2005 (Includes a translation of the last three chapters on Ground, Path and Fruition, pp. 566-89)

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

• Steven Goodman, Rigpa San Francisco, 19 April 1998