Tsigdön Dzö

Tsigdön Dzö (Tibetan: ཚིག་དོན་མཛོད, Wylie: tshig don mdzod) is a textual work written in Classical Tibetan and one of the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa. Longchenpa wrote 'The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle' (Wylie: theg mchog mdzod) as an autocommentary to this work.

Title[]

The full name for the work is 'The Treasury of Precious Words and Meanings' (Tibetan: ཚིག་དོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད, Wylie: tshig don rin po che'i mdzod).

Outline of text[]

Rigpa Shedra (August 2009)^[1] provide a useful outline of the text which in its original composition consists of eleven chapters from which the following summary is founded:

1. the 'ground and basis of reality' (Wylie: gzhi) and how that 'ground' dynamically manifests itself (Wylie: gzhir snang);
2. how sentient beings stray from the 'ground';
3. how all sentient beings have the essence of enlightened energy;
4. how 'primordial wisdom' (Wylie: ye shes) abides within us;
5. the pathways;
6. the gateways;
7. domain for 'primordial wisdom';
8. how primordial wisdom is experientially accessed;
9. signs of realization;
10. signs in the dying and bardo transition; and
11. ultimate fruition as the manifest realization of the kayas.

Western scholarship[]

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche (1989) broached an opening of the discourse of this text into English when he included an abridged translation of Chapter Eleven in one of his works.^[2]

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Notes[]

External links[]

• Rigpa Shedra (August 2009). 'Treasury of Word and Meaning'. Source: [2] (accessed: Friday December 18, 2009)
• Yoniversum page on The Seven Treasuries