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[[Image:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye.jpg|frame|'''Jamgön Kongtrul the Great''']]
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'''The Five Great Treasures''' - [[Jamgön Kongtrul]] the Great (1813-1899) is widely known for synthesizing the knowledge and experience of the many lineages of Buddhism in Tibet. This synthesis is recorded in ‘The Five Great Treasures‘:  
'''The Five Great Treasures''' (Tib. མཛོད་ཆེན་ལྔ་, [[Wyl.]] ''mdzod chen lnga'') — [[Jamgön Kongtrul]] the Great (1813-1899) is widely known for synthesizing the knowledge and experience of the many lineages of Buddhism in Tibet. This synthesis is recorded in ‘The Five Great Treasures‘:  
 
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1. '''[[The All-encompassing Treasury of Knowledge]]''', ''sheja kun la khyabpé dzö'' [Tib.], an encyclopedia of Buddhist wisdom and knowledge.<br>
:'''1.''' The ''[[Treasury of Encyclopedic Knowledge]]'', which brilliantly reveals the [[ground]], [[path]] and [[fruition]] for the whole of [[sutra]] and [[mantrayana|mantra]], from the paths of the common sciences all the way up to [[Dzogchen]] [[Atiyoga]], which is the culmination of the [[nine vehicles]] in the uncommon approach.
2. '''The Treasury of Precious Instructions''', ''damngak dzö'' [Tib.], which gathers the [[pith instructions]] of the eight main lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.<br>
::{{TBRC|W5488|ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད་, ''shes bya kun khyab mdzod''}}
3. '''The Mantra Treasury of the Oral Lineage''', ''kagyü ngak dzö'' [Tib.], which gathers some fundamental teachings of the [[Nyingma kama]] and the main teachings for the practice of the [[Kagyü]] lineage.<br>
:'''2.''' The ''[[Treasury of Precious Instructions]]'', which is a compilation of the most profound maturing [[empowerment]]s and liberating instructions belonging to the [[Eight practice lineages|eight great chariots of the practice lineage]].
4. '''[[The Precious Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings]]''', ''rinchen ter dzö'' [Tib.], which gathers most important rediscovered teachings (''terma'' [Tib.]) of the [[Nyingma]] tradition, and incorporates what is extant of the Extraordinary Treasury (''tunmong ma yinpé dzö'' [Tib.]), Jamgön Kongtrul’s own revealed teachings.<br>
::{{TBRC|W23605|གདམས་ངག་མཛོད་, ''gdams ngag mdzod''}}
5. '''The Vast Treasury of Teachings''', ''gya chen ké dzö'' [Tib.], which comprises the remaining works of Jamgön Kongtrul.
:'''3.''' The ''Treasury of Kagyü Mantras'', which is a compendium of [[mandala]] rituals, maturing empowerments and liberating instructions, such as [[Yangdak]], [[Vajrakilaya]] and [[Yamantaka]] from the Nyingma [[kama]], and the [[tantra]] cycles from the new translation lineages of [[Marpa]] and [[Ngok]].
::{{TBRC|W20876|བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྔགས་མཛོད་, ''bka' brgyud sngags mdzod''}}
:'''4.''' The ''[[Treasury of Precious Termas]]'', which distills the quintessence of an ocean of profound termas within the [[Nyingma]] school.
::{{TBRC|W1KG14|རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་, ''rin chen gter mdzod chen mo''}}
:'''5a)''' The ''Uncommon Treasury'', which contains the unique secret treasures of his own profound terma revelations.
:'''5b)''' The ''Treasury of Extensive Teachings'', which includes various related works, such as praises and advice, as well as compositions on medicine, science and so on.
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Latest revision as of 13:23, 25 August 2012

Jamgön Kongtrul the Great

The Five Great Treasures (Tib. མཛོད་ཆེན་ལྔ་, Wyl. mdzod chen lnga) — Jamgön Kongtrul the Great (1813-1899) is widely known for synthesizing the knowledge and experience of the many lineages of Buddhism in Tibet. This synthesis is recorded in ‘The Five Great Treasures‘:

1. The Treasury of Encyclopedic Knowledge, which brilliantly reveals the ground, path and fruition for the whole of sutra and mantra, from the paths of the common sciences all the way up to Dzogchen Atiyoga, which is the culmination of the nine vehicles in the uncommon approach.
ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད་, shes bya kun khyab mdzod
2. The Treasury of Precious Instructions, which is a compilation of the most profound maturing empowerments and liberating instructions belonging to the eight great chariots of the practice lineage.
གདམས་ངག་མཛོད་, gdams ngag mdzod
3. The Treasury of Kagyü Mantras, which is a compendium of mandala rituals, maturing empowerments and liberating instructions, such as Yangdak, Vajrakilaya and Yamantaka from the Nyingma kama, and the tantra cycles from the new translation lineages of Marpa and Ngok.
བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྔགས་མཛོད་, bka' brgyud sngags mdzod
4. The Treasury of Precious Termas, which distills the quintessence of an ocean of profound termas within the Nyingma school.
རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་, rin chen gter mdzod chen mo
5a) The Uncommon Treasury, which contains the unique secret treasures of his own profound terma revelations.
5b) The Treasury of Extensive Teachings, which includes various related works, such as praises and advice, as well as compositions on medicine, science and so on.
རྒྱ་ཆེན་བཀའ་མཛོད་, rgya chen bka' mdzod
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