Table of Contents
Treasury of Knowledge
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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)
- 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)
- Book Six: The Topics for Study
- Part One: A Presentation of the Common Fields of Knowledge and Worldly Paths (Snow Lion, 2012)
- Part Two: The General Topics of Knowledge in the Hinayana and Mahayana (Snow Lion, 2012)
- Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy (Snow Lion, 2007)
- Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Snow Lion, 2005)
- Book Seven: The Training in Higher Wisdom (Snow Lion, 2012)
- 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) (Snow Lion, 2012)
- Part One, Two: Shamatha and Vipashyana; The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-Based Approaches (Snow Lion, 2012)
- 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)
- Book Nine: An Analysis of the Paths and levels to Be Traversed (Snow Lion, 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 (Snow Lion, 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