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One of [[The Five Great Treasures]] of [[Jamgön Kongtrul]] the Great.
[[Image:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye.jpg|frame|[[Jamgön Kongtrul the Great]]]]
'''The All-encompassing Treasury of Knowledge''' (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད་, ''Sheja Kun La Khyabpé Dzö'', [[Wyl.]] ''shes bya kun khyab mdzod'' or simply '''''Sheja Dzö''''') — an encyclopedia of Buddhist wisdom and knowledge. One of [[The Five Great Treasures]] of [[Jamgön Kongtrul]] the Great.


===Outline===
==Tibetan text==
* {{TBRC|W5488|ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད་, ''shes bya kun khyab mdzod''}}
*[http://www.dharmadownload.net/pages/english/Sungbum/008_shes-bya-kun-khyab/index.htm dharmadownload.net]


==Outline==
The text has ten sections:
The text has ten sections:


1. An Analysis of the Environment and Beings—the realm of training (''Myriad Worlds'')<br>
:•Book One: Myriad Worlds (Snow Lion, 2003)
2. An Analysis of the Way the Teacher Appears in the World to train<br>
:•Book Two: The Advent of the Buddha (Snow Lion, 2010)
3. An Analysis of the Teaching, the Noble Dharma<br>
::Part One: The Teacher’s Path to Awakening
4. An Analysis of How the Buddha’s Teaching Spread throughout the World<br>
::Part Two: The Buddha’s Enlightenment
5. An Analysis of the Higher Training of Discipline (''Buddhist Ethics'')<br>
::Part Three: The Buddha’s Twelve Deeds
6. An Analysis of Learning<br>
::Part Four: Enlightenment’s Bodies and Realms
7. An Analysis of the Higher Training in Wisdom<br>
:•Book Three: The Buddha’s Doctrine—The Sacred Teachings (Snow Lion, 2010)
8. An Analysis of the Higher Training in Meditation<br>
::Part One: What Are the Sacred Teachings?
9. An Analysis of the Paths and Stages to be Traversed<br>
::Part Two: Cycles of Scriptural Transmission
10. An Analysis of the Nature of the Ultimate Fruition
::Part Three: Compilations of the Buddha’s Word
::Part Four: Origins of the Original Translations’ Ancient Tradition (Nyingma)
:•Book Four: Buddhism’s Spread Throughout the World (Snow Lion, 2010)
::Part One: Buddhism’s Spread in India
::Part Two: How Buddhist Monastic Discipline and Philosophy Came to Tibet
::Part Three: Tibet’s Eight Vehicles of Tantric Meditation Practice
::Part Four: The Origins of Buddhist Culture
:•Book Five: Buddhist Ethics (Snow Lion, 2003)
:•Book Six: The Topics for Study
::Part One: A Presentation of the Common Fields of Knowledge and Worldly Paths (Snow Lion, 2012)
::Part Two: The General Topics of Knowledge in the Hinayana and Mahayana (Snow Lion, 2012)
::Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy (Snow Lion, 2007)
::Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Snow Lion, 2005)
:•Book Seven: The Training in Higher Wisdom (Snow Lion, 2012)
::Part One: Gaining Certainty about the Keys to Understanding
::Part Two: Gaining Certainty about the Provisional and Definitive Meanings in the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, the Two Truths and Dependent Arising
::Part Three: Gaining Certainty about the View
::Part Four: Gaining Certainty about the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind
:•Book Eight: The Training in Higher Meditative Absorption ([[Samadhi]]) (Snow Lion, 2012)
::Part One, Two: [[Shamatha]] and [[Vipashyana]]; The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-Based Approaches (Snow Lion, 2012)
::Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice (Snow Lion, 2008)
::Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana (Snow Lion, 2008)
:•Book Nine: An Analysis of the Paths and levels to Be Traversed (Snow Lion, 2010)
::Part One: The Paths and Levels in the Cause-Based Dialectical Approach
::Part Two: The Levels and Paths in the Vajrayana
::Part Three: The Process of Enlightenment
::Part Four: The Levels in the Three Yogas
:•Book Ten: An Analysis of the Consummate Fruition State (Snow Lion, 2010)
::Part One: The Fruition in the Dialectical Approach
::Part Two: The More Common Attainment in the Vajrayana
::Part Three: The Fruition in the Vajrayana
::Part Four: The Fruition State in the [[Nyingma]] School
 
==Translations==
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds'', translated by the Kalu Rinpoche translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003), ISBN 978-1559391887
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Books Two, Three, and Four: Buddhism’s Journey to Tibet'', translated and introduced by Ngawang Zangpo (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2010)
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Five: Buddhist Ethics'', translated by the Kalu Rinpoche translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003)
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy'', translated by Elizabeth Callahan (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2007)
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra'', translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005)
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice'', translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2008)
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana'', translated by Sarah Harding (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2007)
*Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, ''The Teacher-Student Relationship'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1999)
 
==Further Reading==
*E. Gene Smith, '‘Jam mgon Kong sprul and the Nonsectarian Movement' in ''Among Tibetan Texts'', Wisdom, 2001


[[Category:Texts]]
[[Category:Texts]]

Latest revision as of 10:16, 19 May 2020

Jamgön Kongtrul the Great

The All-encompassing Treasury of Knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད་, Sheja Kun La Khyabpé Dzö, Wyl. shes bya kun khyab mdzod or simply Sheja Dzö) — an encyclopedia of Buddhist wisdom and knowledge. One of The Five Great Treasures of Jamgön Kongtrul the Great.

Tibetan text

Outline

The text has ten sections:

•Book One: Myriad Worlds (Snow Lion, 2003)
•Book Two: The Advent of the Buddha (Snow Lion, 2010)
Part One: The Teacher’s Path to Awakening
Part Two: The Buddha’s Enlightenment
Part Three: The Buddha’s Twelve Deeds
Part Four: Enlightenment’s Bodies and Realms
•Book Three: The Buddha’s Doctrine—The Sacred Teachings (Snow Lion, 2010)
Part One: What Are the Sacred Teachings?
Part Two: Cycles of Scriptural Transmission
Part Three: Compilations of the Buddha’s Word
Part Four: Origins of the Original Translations’ Ancient Tradition (Nyingma)
•Book Four: Buddhism’s Spread Throughout the World (Snow Lion, 2010)
Part One: Buddhism’s Spread in India
Part Two: How Buddhist Monastic Discipline and Philosophy Came to Tibet
Part Three: Tibet’s Eight Vehicles of Tantric Meditation Practice
Part Four: The Origins of Buddhist Culture
•Book Five: Buddhist Ethics (Snow Lion, 2003)
•Book Six: The Topics for Study
Part One: A Presentation of the Common Fields of Knowledge and Worldly Paths (Snow Lion, 2012)
Part Two: The General Topics of Knowledge in the Hinayana and Mahayana (Snow Lion, 2012)
Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy (Snow Lion, 2007)
Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Snow Lion, 2005)
•Book Seven: The Training in Higher Wisdom (Snow Lion, 2012)
Part One: Gaining Certainty about the Keys to Understanding
Part Two: Gaining Certainty about the Provisional and Definitive Meanings in the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, the Two Truths and Dependent Arising
Part Three: Gaining Certainty about the View
Part Four: Gaining Certainty about the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind
•Book Eight: The Training in Higher Meditative Absorption (Samadhi) (Snow Lion, 2012)
Part One, Two: Shamatha and Vipashyana; The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-Based Approaches (Snow Lion, 2012)
Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice (Snow Lion, 2008)
Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana (Snow Lion, 2008)
•Book Nine: An Analysis of the Paths and levels to Be Traversed (Snow Lion, 2010)
Part One: The Paths and Levels in the Cause-Based Dialectical Approach
Part Two: The Levels and Paths in the Vajrayana
Part Three: The Process of Enlightenment
Part Four: The Levels in the Three Yogas
•Book Ten: An Analysis of the Consummate Fruition State (Snow Lion, 2010)
Part One: The Fruition in the Dialectical Approach
Part Two: The More Common Attainment in the Vajrayana
Part Three: The Fruition in the Vajrayana
Part Four: The Fruition State in the Nyingma School

Translations

  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds, translated by the Kalu Rinpoche translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003), ISBN 978-1559391887
  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Books Two, Three, and Four: Buddhism’s Journey to Tibet, translated and introduced by Ngawang Zangpo (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2010)
  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Five: Buddhist Ethics, translated by the Kalu Rinpoche translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003)
  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy, translated by Elizabeth Callahan (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2007)
  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra, translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005)
  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice, translated by Elio Guarisco and Ingrid McLeod (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2008)
  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana, translated by Sarah Harding (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2007)
  • Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, The Teacher-Student Relationship (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1999)

Further Reading

  • E. Gene Smith, '‘Jam mgon Kong sprul and the Nonsectarian Movement' in Among Tibetan Texts, Wisdom, 2001