Seven Treasuries

Longchen Rabjam

The Seven Treasures or Treasuries (Tib. མཛོད་བདུན་, Dzö Dün, Wyl. mdzod bdun) are works by the omniscient Longchenpa which, together with the Trilogy of Natural Freedom, represent the extensive, scholarly or pandita's approach. They were not originally intended to be a collection.

• The Wish Fulfilling Treasury (Tib. ཡིད་བཞིན་མཛོད་, Yishyin Dzö, Wyl. yid bzhin mdzod)
• The Treasury of Pith Instructions (Tib. མན་ངག་མཛོད་, Mengak Dzö, Wyl. man ngag mdzod)
• The Treasury of Dharmadhatu (Tib. ཆོས་དབྱིངས་མཛོད་, Chöying Dzö, Wyl. chos dbyings mdzod)
• The Treasury of Philosophical Tenets (Tib. གྲུབ་མཐའ་མཛོད་, Drubta Dzö, Wyl. grub mtha' mdzod)
• The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle (Tib. ཐེག་མཆོག་མཛོད་, Tekchok Dzö, Wyl. theg mchog mdzod)
• The Treasury of Word and Meaning (Tib. ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད་, Tsik Dön Dzö, Wyl. tshig don mdzod)
• The Treasury of the Natural State (Tib. གནས་ལུགས་མཛོད་, Neluk Dzö, Wyl. gnas lugs mdzod)

Tibetan Texts

• མཛོད་བདུན་, mdzod bdun Oddiyana Institute edition, Tarthang Tulku, 1999(?)
• མཛོད་བདུན་, mdzod bdun Adzom edition

History

Most of the Seven Treasuries were composed at Longchenpa's hermitage at Gangri Thökar in Central Tibet.

Further Reading

• Patrul Rinpoche, Song of Encouragement to Read the Seven Treasuries in Quintessential Dzogchen, edited by Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt (Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2006)

Gallery

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  Gangri Thökar where Longchenpa composed many of his writings, including the Seven Treasuries

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  The rock in Bhutan on which Longchenpa wrote some of the Dzogchen teachings

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  The view from the rock - Tharpaling Monastery is visible below

External Links

• Tibetan edition of Seven Treasuries in various formats

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