Seven Treasuries | |||||||||
Longchenpa in his meditation seat
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Traditional Chinese | 七寶藏 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 七宝藏 | ||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||
Tibetan | མཛོད་བདུན་ | ||||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Qī Bǎozàng |
Wade–Giles | Ch'i1 Pao3-tsang4 |
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Wylie | mdzod bdun |
THDL | Dzö Dün |
The Seven Treasuries are a collection of seven works, some with auto-commentaries, by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Longchenpa.
1. Yizhin Dzö (yid bzhin mdzod/cintāmaṇi kośa), The Wishing Gem Treasury, and its prose commentary, White Lotus (padma dkar po)
2. Mengag Dzö (man ngag mdzod/upadeśa kośa) - The Treasury of Oral Instructions, classified by Longchenpa as 'path with result' (lamdre (lam bras))
3. Drubta Dzö (grub mtha' mdzod/siddhānta kośa or siddhyanta kośa), The Treasury of Dogmas: a Lamp for the Meaning of All Vehicles to Liberation from Samsara, belonging to the genre of tenets literature.
4. Tsigdön Dzö (tshigs don mdzod/padārtha kośa), The Treasury of Subjects, a survey of the Dzogchen philosophy in a series of eleven topics.
5. Tegchog Dzö (theg mchog mdzod/yānottama kośa), The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle, a commentary on the Seventeen Tantras of the Menngagde division of Atiyoga.
6. Chöying Dzö (chos dbyings mdzod/dharmadhātu kośa), The Treasury of the Dharma Plane, with its prose commentary A Treasury of Buried Treasure of Traditional Scripture, Lungi Terdzö (lung gi gter mdzod/āgama nidhi kośa)
7. Nelug Dzö (gnas lugs mdzod/tathātva kośa), The Treasury of the Being So, with its prose commentary The Threefold Classification of the Heart, Desum Nyingpo (sde gsum snying po/tri senā garbhā nāmārtha vrittistathātva ratnasya kosha nāma vritti)
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