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'''Yönten Dzö''' [Tib.] - ''The Treasury of Precious Qualities'', the famous treatise by [[Jikmé Lingpa]], in which he expounds the entire Buddhist path, from the [[shravaka yana]] teachings up to the [[Great Perfection]].
'''Yönten Dzö''' (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་མཛོད་, [[Wyl.]] ''yon tan mdzod'') — ''The Treasury of Precious Qualities'', the famous treatise by [[Jikmé Lingpa]], in which he expounds the entire Buddhist path, from the [[shravaka yana]] teachings up to the [[Great Perfection]].


==Outline==
==Outline==
The text has thirteen chapters:
The text has thirteen chapters:
#The Difficulty of Gaining the Freedoms and Advantages
#The Difficulty of Gaining the Freedoms and Advantages
#Death and Impermanence
#Death and [[Impermanence]]
#[[Karma]]: Cause and Effect
#[[Karma]]: Cause and Effect
#The Sufferings of [[Samsara]]
#The Sufferings of [[Samsara]]
#The Four Wheels, which are the inital entry point for supreme beings
#The Four Wheels, which are the initial entry point for supreme beings
#Taking Refuge, the entrance to the Buddhist Path
#[[Taking Refuge]], the entrance to the Buddhist Path
#The Entrance to the Actual Mahayana (cultivating the [[four immeasurables]])
#The Entrance to the Actual [[Mahayana]] (cultivating the [[four immeasurables]])
#Arousing [[Bodhichitta]]
#Arousing [[Bodhichitta]]
#The Bodhisattva Trainings
#The [[Bodhisattva]] Trainings
#The Pitaka of the [[Vidyadhara]]s
#The Pitaka of the [[Vidyadhara]]s
#The Nature of the Ground
#The Nature of the Ground
#The Extraordinary Path of the Natural Great Perfection
#The Extraordinary Path of the Natural [[Great Perfection]]
#The Kayas and Wisdoms of the Ultimate Fruition
#The [[Kaya]]s and Wisdoms of the Ultimate Fruition


The first nine chapters comprise the sutra section, and the last four comprise the mantra section.
The first nine chapters comprise the [[sutra]] section, and the last four comprise the [[mantra]] section.
 
==Commentaries==
===In Tibetan===
*Jikmé Lingpa himself:
**Wyl. ''yon tan rin po che’i mdzod kyi rgya cher ‘grel ba bden gnyis shing rta'' -  Jikmé Lingpa’s Collected Works, 1985 Dodrupchen Monastery edition in 9 volumes, Vol 1 (ka) pp.103-1023.
**Wyl. ''yon tan rin po che’i mdzod las/ ‘bras bu’i theg pa’i rgya cher ‘grel rnam mkhyen shing rta'' - Jikmé Lingpa’s Collected Works, 1985 Dodrupchen Monastery edition in 9 volumes, Vol 2 (kha)  pp.1-879
*[[Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer]]
*[[Ngawang Tendar]], ''yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi dka' gnad rdo rje'i rgya mdud 'gro byed legs bshad gser gyi thur ma'' *{{TBRC|W23623|}}
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]]’s outlines and brief studies on the ''Yönten Dzö'', all from The Collected Works of Patrul Rinpoche, published in 8 volumes by ''si khron mi rigs dpar skrun khang'', 2003
**Wyl. ''yon tan mdzod kyi ‘chad thabs yid kyi me long'' (Vol. 2, pp. 308-312)
**Wyl. ''yon tan mdzod kyi spyi don dang sa bcad rgyas bsdus bcas'' (Vol. 2, pp. 313-343)
**Wyl. ''yon tan mdzod kyi bsdus don me tog phreng ba'' (Vol. 2, pp. 344-424)
**Wyl. ''yon tan rin po che’i mdzod kyi dka’ ‘grel nyin byed snang ba'' (Vol. 4, pp. 25-172)
*[[Khenpo Yönga]]
**Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཟླ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་དང་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར་, Wyl. ''yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi 'grel pa zla ba'i sgron me dang nyi ma'i 'od zer'') Vol.1  (Tib. བདེན་གཉིས་གསལ་བྱེད་ཟླ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།, Wyl. ''bden gnyis gsal byed zla ba’i sgron me'')*{{TBRC|W1KG9827|}}
**(Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཟླ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་དང་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར་, Wyl. ''yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi 'grel pa zla ba'i sgron me dang nyi ma'i 'od zer'') Vol.2 (Tib. ཟབ་དོན་སྣང་བྱེད་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར།  , Wyl. ''zab don snang byed nyi ma’i ‘od zer'') *{{TBRC|W1KG9827|}}
*[[Tulku Tsultrim Zangpo]]
**''chos thams cad gzhung lam gcig tu ston pa yon tan rin po che'i mdzod dga' ba'i char zhes bya ba'i zin bris dka' 'grel gyi steng nas 'chad pa de nyid gsal byed''
**''yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi rtsa mtshan sbrags mar bkod pa rin po che'i do shal ''
*[[Kangyur Rinpoche]]:
**Wyl. ''yon tan rin po che’i mdzod kyi mchan ‘grel thegs gsum bdud rtsi’i nying khu'' {{TBRC|W23616|2782|1|1|1|262|}}. Another version with notes by[[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]]: {{TBRC|W27918|4520|1|1|1|634|}}


==Translations==
==Translations==
*Kangyur Rinpoche, ''Treasury of Precious Qualities'', Shambhala, (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary, not the root verses, for the first nine chapters only)
===In English===
*[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''A Marvellous Garland of Rare Gems'',  Padma Publishing, 2005 (Includes a translation of the last three chapters on Ground, Path and Fruition, pp. 566-89)
*[[Kangyur Rinpoche]], ''Treasury of Precious Qualities'', Shambhala, 2001 (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary, not the root verses, for the first nine chapters only)
*Longchen Yeshe Dorje, [[Kangyur Rinpoche]] and Jigme Lingpa, ''Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One'', revised edition Shambhala, 2010. (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary for the first nine chapters, and also contains the root verses). ISBN 1590307119
*Longchen Yeshe Dorje, [[Kangyur Rinpoche]] and Jigme Lingpa, ''Treasury of Precious Qualities Book Two'', Shambhala, 2013. The second part of a commentary on the ''Treasury of Precious Qualities''. ISBN 1611800455
*[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''[[A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems]]'',  Padma Publishing, 2005 (Includes a translation of the last three chapters on Ground, Path and Fruition, pp. 566-89)
===In French===
*Jigmé Lingpa, ''Le Trésor de précieuses qualités, Vol I'' (chapters 1-9), Padmakara éditions, 2010. ISBN 9782916915555
 
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Steven Goodman]], Rigpa San Francisco, 19 April 1998
*[[Khenchen Pema Sherab]], [[Rigpa Shedra]] West, [[Lerab Ling]], September 2012:
**Chapters 1-2
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 2013:
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 17-25 May 2014:
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 25 May-2 June 2015:
*Lopön Tashi Tseten, [[Rigpa Shedra]] East, 2016, chapter 10
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 1-8 June 2016:
*Lopön Tashi Tseten, Shedra East, 2016. Chapter 10, The Vehicle of the Secret Mantra.
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 20 June-2 July 2017:
**completing the first part of the text up to & including Chapter 9, the Sutra & Mahayana section.
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 2018:
**Start of Chapter 10, The Vehicle of the Secret Mantra. Verses 1-136, skipping the kyerim and dzogrim section (verses 38-90)
*Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 19-26 June 2019:
**Continuation of Chapter 10


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[[Category:Texts]]
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Revision as of 12:27, 15 December 2019

Jikmé Lingpa

Yönten Dzö (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་མཛོད་, Wyl. yon tan mdzod) — The Treasury of Precious Qualities, the famous treatise by Jikmé Lingpa, in which he expounds the entire Buddhist path, from the shravaka yana teachings up to the Great Perfection.

Outline

The text has thirteen chapters:

  1. The Difficulty of Gaining the Freedoms and Advantages
  2. Death and Impermanence
  3. Karma: Cause and Effect
  4. The Sufferings of Samsara
  5. The Four Wheels, which are the initial entry point for supreme beings
  6. Taking Refuge, the entrance to the Buddhist Path
  7. The Entrance to the Actual Mahayana (cultivating the four immeasurables)
  8. Arousing Bodhichitta
  9. The Bodhisattva Trainings
  10. The Pitaka of the Vidyadharas
  11. The Nature of the Ground
  12. The Extraordinary Path of the Natural Great Perfection
  13. The Kayas and Wisdoms of the Ultimate Fruition

The first nine chapters comprise the sutra section, and the last four comprise the mantra section.

Commentaries

In Tibetan

  • Jikmé Lingpa himself:
    • Wyl. yon tan rin po che’i mdzod kyi rgya cher ‘grel ba bden gnyis shing rta - Jikmé Lingpa’s Collected Works, 1985 Dodrupchen Monastery edition in 9 volumes, Vol 1 (ka) pp.103-1023.
    • Wyl. yon tan rin po che’i mdzod las/ ‘bras bu’i theg pa’i rgya cher ‘grel rnam mkhyen shing rta - Jikmé Lingpa’s Collected Works, 1985 Dodrupchen Monastery edition in 9 volumes, Vol 2 (kha) pp.1-879
  • Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer
  • Ngawang Tendar, yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi dka' gnad rdo rje'i rgya mdud 'gro byed legs bshad gser gyi thur ma * [1]
  • Patrul Rinpoche’s outlines and brief studies on the Yönten Dzö, all from The Collected Works of Patrul Rinpoche, published in 8 volumes by si khron mi rigs dpar skrun khang, 2003
    • Wyl. yon tan mdzod kyi ‘chad thabs yid kyi me long (Vol. 2, pp. 308-312)
    • Wyl. yon tan mdzod kyi spyi don dang sa bcad rgyas bsdus bcas (Vol. 2, pp. 313-343)
    • Wyl. yon tan mdzod kyi bsdus don me tog phreng ba (Vol. 2, pp. 344-424)
    • Wyl. yon tan rin po che’i mdzod kyi dka’ ‘grel nyin byed snang ba (Vol. 4, pp. 25-172)
  • Khenpo Yönga
    • Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཟླ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་དང་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར་, Wyl. yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi 'grel pa zla ba'i sgron me dang nyi ma'i 'od zer) Vol.1 (Tib. བདེན་གཉིས་གསལ་བྱེད་ཟླ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།, Wyl. bden gnyis gsal byed zla ba’i sgron me)* [2]
    • (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཟླ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་དང་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར་, Wyl. yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi 'grel pa zla ba'i sgron me dang nyi ma'i 'od zer) Vol.2 (Tib. ཟབ་དོན་སྣང་བྱེད་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར། , Wyl. zab don snang byed nyi ma’i ‘od zer) * [3]
  • Tulku Tsultrim Zangpo
    • chos thams cad gzhung lam gcig tu ston pa yon tan rin po che'i mdzod dga' ba'i char zhes bya ba'i zin bris dka' 'grel gyi steng nas 'chad pa de nyid gsal byed
    • yon tan rin po che'i mdzod kyi rtsa mtshan sbrags mar bkod pa rin po che'i do shal
  • Kangyur Rinpoche:

Translations

In English

  • Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities, Shambhala, 2001 (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary, not the root verses, for the first nine chapters only)
  • Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche and Jigme Lingpa, Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One, revised edition Shambhala, 2010. (This is a translation of Kangyur Rinpoche's commentary for the first nine chapters, and also contains the root verses). ISBN 1590307119
  • Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche and Jigme Lingpa, Treasury of Precious Qualities Book Two, Shambhala, 2013. The second part of a commentary on the Treasury of Precious Qualities. ISBN 1611800455
  • Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems, Padma Publishing, 2005 (Includes a translation of the last three chapters on Ground, Path and Fruition, pp. 566-89)

In French

  • Jigmé Lingpa, Le Trésor de précieuses qualités, Vol I (chapters 1-9), Padmakara éditions, 2010. ISBN 9782916915555

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

  • Steven Goodman, Rigpa San Francisco, 19 April 1998
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Rigpa Shedra West, Lerab Ling, September 2012:
    • Chapters 1-2
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 2013:
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 17-25 May 2014:
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 25 May-2 June 2015:
  • Lopön Tashi Tseten, Rigpa Shedra East, 2016, chapter 10
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 1-8 June 2016:
  • Lopön Tashi Tseten, Shedra East, 2016. Chapter 10, The Vehicle of the Secret Mantra.
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 20 June-2 July 2017:
    • completing the first part of the text up to & including Chapter 9, the Sutra & Mahayana section.
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 2018:
    • Start of Chapter 10, The Vehicle of the Secret Mantra. Verses 1-136, skipping the kyerim and dzogrim section (verses 38-90)
  • Khenchen Pema Sherab, Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 19-26 June 2019:
    • Continuation of Chapter 10