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[[Image:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye.jpg|frame|'''Jamgön Kongtrul the Great''']]
[[Image:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye.jpg|frame|[[Jamgön Kongtrul the Great]]]]
'''The All-encompassing Treasury of Knowledge''' (Tib. ''sheja kun la khyabpé dzö'') - an encyclopedia of Buddhist wisdom and knowledge. One of [[The Five Great Treasures]] of [[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==
* {{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==
==Outline==
The text has ten sections:
The text has ten sections:


#An Analysis of the Environment and Beings—the realm of training (''Myriad Worlds'')<br>
:•Book One: Myriad Worlds (Snow Lion, 2003. ISBN 1-55939-188-X)
#An Analysis of the Way the Teacher Appears in the World to train<br>
:•Book Two: The Advent of the Buddha (Snow Lion, 2010)
#An Analysis of the Teaching, the Noble Dharma<br>
::Part One: The Teacher’s Path to Awakening
#An Analysis of How the Buddha’s Teaching Spread throughout the World<br>
::Part Two: The Buddha’s Enlightenment
#An Analysis of the Higher Training of Discipline (''Buddhist Ethics'')<br>
::Part Three: The Buddha’s Twelve Deeds
#An Analysis of Learning<br>
::Part Four: Enlightenment’s Bodies and Realms
#An Analysis of the Higher Training in Wisdom<br>
:•Book Three: The Buddha’s Doctrine—The Sacred Teachings (Snow Lion, 2010)
#An Analysis of the Higher Training in Meditation<br>
::Part One: What Are the Sacred Teachings?
#An Analysis of the Paths and Stages to be Traversed<br>
::Part Two: Cycles of Scriptural Transmission
#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. ISBN 1-55939-191-X)
:•Book Six: The Topics for Study
::Part One: A Presentation of the Common Fields of Knowledge and Worldly Paths
::Part Two: The General Topics of Knowledge in the Hinayana and Mahayana
::Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy (Snow Lion, 2007. ISBN 1-55939-277-0)
::Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Snow Lion, 2005. ISBN 1-55939-210-X)
:•Book Seven: The Training in Higher Wisdom
::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]])
::Part One, Two: [[Shamatha]] and [[Vipashyana]]; The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-Based Approaches
::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.  ISBN 1-55939-284-3)
:•Book Nine: An Analysis of the Paths and levels to Be Traversed (''Journey and Goal'', forthcoming Oct. 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 (''Journey and Goal'', forthcoming Oct. 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==
==Translations==
*Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds'', Snow Lion, 2003
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds'', translated by the Kalu Rinpoche translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003), ISBN 978-1559391887
*Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Five: Buddhist Ethics'', Snow Lion, 1998, 2003
*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)
*Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy'', Snow Lion, 2007
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Five: Buddhist Ethics'', translated by the Kalu Rinpoche translation Group (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2003)
*Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra'', Snow Lion, 2005
*Jamgön Kongtrul, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy'', translated by Elizabeth Callahan (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2007)
* Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice'', Snow Lion (Fall, 2008)
*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)
*Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana'', Snow Lion, 2007
*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]]

Revision as of 02:01, 18 March 2018

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. ISBN 1-55939-188-X)
•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. ISBN 1-55939-191-X)
•Book Six: The Topics for Study
Part One: A Presentation of the Common Fields of Knowledge and Worldly Paths
Part Two: The General Topics of Knowledge in the Hinayana and Mahayana
Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy (Snow Lion, 2007. ISBN 1-55939-277-0)
Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Snow Lion, 2005. ISBN 1-55939-210-X)
•Book Seven: The Training in Higher Wisdom
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)
Part One, Two: Shamatha and Vipashyana; The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-Based Approaches
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. ISBN 1-55939-284-3)
•Book Nine: An Analysis of the Paths and levels to Be Traversed (Journey and Goal, forthcoming Oct. 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 (Journey and Goal, forthcoming Oct. 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