Gdams ngag mdzod Research Department Report

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• Gdams ngag mdzod Catalog
• Gdams ngag mdzod DPL
• List of translations of texts in the gdams ngag mdzod
• Manual for cataloging the gdams ngag mdzod
• Gdams ngag mdzod Outline from TBRC
• Gdams ngag mdzod Outline from RyWiki

Overview of the གདམས་ངག་མཛོད་ Shechen Edition, 1999

• Statistics:
  • 18 Volumes, ka through tsha
  • Three printings, 1971-1972, 1979-1981, 1999.
  • dbu chen script
  • Average pecha pages per volume: 267.83
  • Average Western pages per volume: 535.67
  • Largest Volume: shangs pa bka' brgyud Volume 12 (na) - 774 pages, 387 folios
  • Smallest Volume: sa skya lam 'bras Volume 6 (cha) - 424 pages, 212 folios
  • Average lines of text per pecha page: 7
  • Total # of texts: 392?
  • Average Text Length:
  • Largest text:
  • Smallest text:
  • Largest section: Volumes 7-10 mar pa bka' brgyud (ja, nya, ta, and tha) 2106 pages.
  • Smallest section: Volume 15 dus 'khor dang o rgyan bsnyen sgrub (ba) 626 pages.
  • Percent of all 18 volumes already translated:

The 18 volumes in nine sections:

• gsang sngags rnying ma
  • Volume 1 ཀ་ (478 pages, 239 folios)
  • Volume 2 ཁ་ (498 pages, 249 folios)
• bka' gdams
  • Volume 3 ག་ (544 pages, 272 folios)
  • Volume 4 ང་ (646 pages, 323 folios)
• sa skya lam 'bras
  • Volume 5 ཅ་ (506 pages, 253 folios)
  • Volume 6 ཆ་ (424 pages, 212 folios)
• mar pa bka' brgyud
  • Volume 7 ཇ་ (542 pages, 271 folios)
  • Volume 8 ཉ་ (486 pages, 243 folios)
  • Volume 9 ཏ་ (526 pages, 263 folios)
  • Volume 10 ཐ་ (552 pages, 276 folios)
• shangs pa bka' brgyud
  • Volume 11 ད་ (530 pages, 265 folios)
  • Volume 12 ན་ (774 pages, 387 folios)
• zhi byed dang gcod
  • Volume 13 པ་ (454 pages, 227 folios)
  • Volume 14 ཕ་ (446 pages, 223 folios)
• dus 'khor dang o rgyan bsnyen sgrub
  • Volume 15 བ་ (626 pages, 313 folios)
• khri skor sna tshogs
  • Volume 16 མ་ (510 pages, 255 folios)
  • Volume 17 ཙ་ (470 pages, 235 folios)
• jo nang khrid brgya dang dkar chag brgyud yig
  • Volume 18 ཚ་ (630 pages, 315 folios)

Introduction

The gdams ngag mdzod is available in three printings:

• Gdams ngag mdzod Kundeling Printing - W21811 in 12 volumes in Delhi by Ngawang Gyaltsen and Ngawang Lungtok, 1971-1972. There were a few texts and pages missing from this edition.

• Gdams ngag mdzod Dilgo Khyentse Printing - W20877. 18 volume pothi format edition published in Paro, Bhutan, 1979-1981. This contained several of the rare texts missing from the Kundeling printing.

• Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing - W23605 in 18 pothi volumes was produced in 1999 under Tsadra patronage. This is the most complete and contained the few missing pages and texts that had been found since the 1979-1981 version. Produced in manuscript.

This report will focus on the most complete version, the 1999 Shechen printing, which is available on TBRC.

There are 393 texts in 18 volumes in the Shechen edition. The 18 volumes are divided into nine sections corresponding to major Tibetan Buddhist lineages. This summary report will describe the content in a cursory way, by summarizing the content of each of the nine sections using simple and well-known text classifications. We will then discuss previous work on the gdams ngag mdzod, translations of texts from the gdams ngag mdzod, and any research published on the gdams ngag mdzod.

Karl B. Report on Marpa Kagyu

Outline and contents of the mar pa bka’ brgyud section of the gdams ngag mdzod

The Paro edition of the gdams ngag mdzod in 18 volumes (edited by Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche and published by Lama Ngodrup and Sherab Drimey 1979–81)

The mar pa bka’ brgyud section consists of 95 texts with a total of 1049 folios (a few of these texts have been translated already; translations I know of are noted in [ ]). In general, the texts contained in this section can be broadly classified into five main categories:

1) Sadhanas, abhisheka manuals, and ritual instructions on the deities Cakrasamvara, Vajrayogini, Mahakala, and Vetali (289 folios)

2) Instructions on the practices related to the texts under 1) (75 folios)

3) Instruction manuals on The Six Dharmas of Naropa (120 folios)

4) Mahamudra instruction manuals (336 folios)

5) Miscellaneous (229 folios)

Thus, the bulk of these texts (35 %) consists of sadhanas, abhisheka manuals, ritual instructions, supplications, and—surprisingly few—instructions on the primary deities Cakrasamvara and (to a lesser degree) Vajrayogini. The second biggest group (32 %) consists of texts on Mahamudra, followed by instructions on The Six Dharmas (11 %). The miscellaneous group (22 %) contains a variety of texts such as a number of guru yogas, some texts by the Karmapas, Jigten Sumgon’s dgongs pa gcig pa, supplications, instructions on utpattikrama and sampannakrama.

Compiled by Karl Brunnholzl for Tsadra Foundation, April 2010

Chokyi Nyima Report on the gdams ngag mdzod

Chokyi Nyima (Richard Barron) PDF OF REPORT

Catalog of gdams ngag mdzod from Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology

Sgrub brgyud śiṅ rta chen po brgyad kyi smin sgrol sñiṅ po rnams phyogs gcig tu bsdus pa Gdams-ṅag-rin po-cheʼi-mdzod kyi dkar chag rin chen bum bzaṅ

[microform] : Gdams-ngag-mdzod catalogue Rin-chen-bum-bzang : the treasure of precious instructions, teachings, initiations of the eight great vehicle of Buddhist doctrine in the land of snow / compiled and edited by Karjam Atsen.

• Other Title
  • Gdams-ngag-mdzod catalogue Rin-chen-bum-bzang.
• Other Title
  • Gdams-ṅag-rin-po-cheʼi-mdzod kyi dkar chag rin chen bzaṅ.
• Corp. Author
  • Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology.
• Author
  • Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas, 1813-1899.
• Author
  • Atsen, Karjam, Lama.
• Publisher
  • Gangtok, Sikkim : Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology, 1990.
• Description
  • xxxiv, 214 p. ; 27 cm.
• Series
  • Catalogue series ; 2
• Series
• Kagyudpa catalogue series ; v. 1
• Note
  • In Tibetan; prefatory matter in English.
  • Note
• Cover title: Gdams-ṅag-rin-po-cheʼi-mdzod kyi dkar chag rin chen bum bzaṅ.
• Note
  • Includes indexes.
• Note
  • Master microform held by: DLC.
• Note
  • Microfiche. New Delhi : Library of Congress Office ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1995. 3 microfiches.
• Subject
  • Buddhist literature, Tibetan Bibliography Catalogs.
• Subject
  • Buddhism China Tibet Bibliography Catalogs.
• Location
  • Request available for loan at L94.BTI342
• Summary
  • Bibliographical catalogue of Tibetan Buddhist literature of different sects; originally prepared by Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas, 1813-1899.