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'''Treasury of Word and Meaning''' (Tib. ''Tsik Dön Dzö''; [[Wyl.]] ''tshig don mdzod'') - one of the [[Seven Treasuries]] of [[Longchenpa]]. It is a summary of the ''[[Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle]]'', explaining the crucial points of practice. | '''Treasury of Word and Meaning''' (Tib. ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད་, ''Tsik Dön Dzö''; [[Wyl.]] ''tshig don mdzod'') - one of the [[Seven Treasuries]] of [[Longchenpa]]. It is a summary of the ''[[Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle]]'', explaining the crucial points of practice. | ||
==Outline== | ==Outline== | ||
The text consists of 11 chapters: | The text consists of 11 chapters: | ||
#the Ground and basis of reality (Wyl. ''gzhi''), how that ground dynamically manifests itself (Wyl. '' | #the Ground and basis of reality (Tib. [[གཞི་]], Wyl. ''gzhi''), how that ground dynamically manifests itself (Tib. [[གཞི་སྣང་]], Wyl. ''gzhi snang)''; | ||
#how [[sentient beings]] stray from the Ground; | #how [[sentient beings]] stray from the Ground; | ||
#how all beings have the essence of Enlightened energy; | #how all beings have the essence of Enlightened energy; | ||
#how [[primordial wisdom]] (Wyl. ''ye shes'') abides within us; | #how [[primordial wisdom]] (Tib. [[ཡེ་ཤེས་]], Wyl. ''ye shes'') abides within us; | ||
#the pathways, and | #the pathways, and | ||
#the gateways, and | #the gateways, and | ||
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#signs in the dying and [[bardo]] transition; and | #signs in the dying and [[bardo]] transition; and | ||
#ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the [[kaya]]s. | #ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the [[kaya]]s. | ||
==Tibetan Text== | |||
* {{TBRCW|O1PD14|O1PD1470$W1PD8|གསང་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གནས་གསུམ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་ཚིག་དོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་, ''gsang ba bla na med pa 'od gsal rdo rje'i snying po'i gnas gsum gsal bar byed pa'i tshig don rin po che'i mdzod''}} | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 03:50, 21 March 2011
Treasury of Word and Meaning (Tib. ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད་, Tsik Dön Dzö; Wyl. tshig don mdzod) - one of the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa. It is a summary of the Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle, explaining the crucial points of practice.
Outline
The text consists of 11 chapters:
- the Ground and basis of reality (Tib. གཞི་, Wyl. gzhi), how that ground dynamically manifests itself (Tib. གཞི་སྣང་, Wyl. gzhi snang);
- how sentient beings stray from the Ground;
- how all beings have the essence of Enlightened energy;
- how primordial wisdom (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་, Wyl. ye shes) abides within us;
- the pathways, and
- the gateways, and
- domain for primordial wisdom;
- how primordial wisdom is experientially accessed;
- signs of realization,
- signs in the dying and bardo transition; and
- ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the kayas.
Tibetan Text
Further Reading
- David Germano, Poetic thought, the intelligent Universe, and the mystery of self: The Tantric synthesis of rDzogs Chen in fourteenth century Tibet (PhD dissertation), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
- Tulku Thondup, The Practice of Dzogchen, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1989, pp. 205-213, pp. 400-401 and pp. 413-420 (includes an abridged translation of chapter 11).