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Volume 1
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Volume 1 Contents[1]
- Mahāyoga
- Concise Path by Buddhaguhya
- Garland of Views by the precious master, Guru Rinpoche
- Rays of Sunlight, a commentary on the མན་ངག་ལྟ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བ་
- ཚིག་དོན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་ཟིན་མདོར་བསྡུས་པ་ཟབ་དོན་པད་ཚལ་འབྱེད་པའི་ཉི་འོད་|མན་ངག་ལྟ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བའི་ཚིག་དོན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་ཟིན་མདོར་བསྡུས་པ་ཟབ་དོན་པད་ཚལ་འབྱེད་པའི་ཉི་འོད་ pp 29-84
- man ngag lta ba'i phreng ba'i tshig don gyi 'grel zin mdor bsdus pa zab don pad tshal 'byed pa'i nyi 'od by blo gros mtha' yas ('jam mgon kong sprul)
- 'Mamos' Sphere of Activity
- Heart Essence of Magical Illusion, by the omniscient Drime Özer
- Anuyoga
- Four Stages of Yogic Practice by Dewa Saldze[2]
- བདེ་བ་གསལ་མཛད་ཀྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་རིམ་
- bde ba gsal mdzad kyi rnal 'byor bzhi rim
- Instruction on innate meditation extracted from the Discourse on the Gathering by Lochen Dharmaśrī
- Illuminating the Profound Path, a manual of instruction for Stirring the Pit by Lochen Dharmaśrī
- Four Stages of Yogic Practice by Dewa Saldze[2]
- Atiyoga
- Category of Mind (Tib. སེམས་སྡེ་ ; sems sde)
- རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་སེམས་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་ལུང་གི་རྩ་བ་གཅེས་པར་བཏུས་པ་རྣམས་ pp 163-190
- All-Creating Monarch (chapters 5, 35, 37)
- Vajra songs of the eighteen texts of the Category of Mind[3]
- Meditation on Awakened Mind: Smelting Gold from Ore, a treatise on the heart essence by Mañjuśrīmitra[4]
- Ritual of empowerment into the dynamic energy of pure awareness, the means for direct introduction to the enlightened intent of the eighteen “mother and child” texts of the Category of Mind, by the Katok master Moktön Dorje Palzang
- སེམས་སྡེའི་དབང་ཆོག་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་གདམས་|གཡུང་སྟོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོའི་ཡིག་ཆ་ལགས། སེམས་སྡེ་མ་བུ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་དགོངས་པ་ངོ་སྤྲད་པའི་ཐབས་རིག་པ་རྩལ་གྱི་དབང་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་བསྐུར་བའི་ཆོག་ཁྲིགས་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་གདམས་ pp 191-247
- g.yung ston rdo rje dpal bzang po'i yig cha lags/ sems sde ma bu bco brgyad kyi dgongs pa ngo sprad pa'i thabs rig pa rtsal gyi dbang bco brgyad bskur ba’i chog khrigs bla ma'i zhal gdams, by bya btang gi sbrang po rdo rje dpal bzang po, (rmog ston rdo rje dpal)
- Precious Ship, the essential manual of instruction for the All-Creating Monarch, by the noble Longchen Rapjam
- Manual of instruction according to the Nyang tradition, by Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyaltsen
- Supplication prayer to the lineage by Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyaltsen, with supplementary verses by Minling Terchen
- Manual of instruction according to the eastern Tibetan tradition, by the Katok master Namkha Dorje
- Manual of instruction according to the Aro tradition, by Zhamar Kachö Wangpo
- Category of Expanse (Tib. ཀློང་སྡེ་ ; klong sde)
- རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཀློང་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་ལུང་གི་རྩ་བ་གཅེས་པར་བཏུས་པ་རྣམས།pp 379-393
- Wylie: rdzogs pa chen po'i klong sde'i rgyud lung gi rtsa ba gces par btus pa rnams
- The fourth chapter from the tantra the Supremely Vast Range of the Great Expanse, including interlinear notes
- Source for the Vajra Bridge, with associated pith instructions and personal advice, taught by Bairotsana
- Summary of the Condensed Bridge in a single meditation session
- ཟམ་ཆུང་བསྡུས་པ་ pp 386-387
- zam chung bsdus pa
- Garland of Meditative Experience from the Precious Lineage of Oral Teachings
- Garland of Precious Advice, a song sung to illustrate the benefits and advantages of bodhicitta through six analogies
- An extensive arrangement of the methods for meditation, a practical application of the guru’s blessing
- Opening the Eyes of the Fortunate, the practical application of the instructions on meditation, known as “the distilled essence of Ola Jose poured into the vessel that was Gyagom,” a manual concerning the stick used as a support in meditation, by Chenga Chökyi Drakpa[5]
- རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་སྡེའི་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཟམ་པའི་སྒོམ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་ལག་ལེན་། འོ་ལ་ཇོ་སྲས་ཀྱི་བཅུད་རྒྱ་སྒོམ་ཀྱི་སྣོད་དུ་བླུགས་པ་ pp 417–438
- rdzogs pa chen po klong sde'i snyan brgyud rin po che rdo rje zam pa'i sgom khrid kyi lag len/_'o la jo sras kyi bcud rgya sgom kyi snod du blugs pa/ by zhwa dmar spyan snga chos kyi grags pa
- A supplication to the lineage of the Vajra Bridge cycle of the Category of Expanse, by Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje
- Ocean of Timeless Awareness, a clear arrangement of yoga of four spiritual practices and the activity ritual for Ngönzok Gyalpo, from the Vajra Bridge cycle of the Category of Expanse
- Category of Mind (Tib. སེམས་སྡེ་ ; sems sde)
Volume 2
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Volume 16 Contents[6]
- The Three Testaments of the Buddha: The Quintessence of the Key Points of the Pith-Instruction Class of the Luminous Great Perfection
- འོད་གསལ་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མན་ངག་སྡེའི་གནད་ཀྱི་བཅུད་ཕུར་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་འདས་རྗེས་གསུམ་
- The First Testament of the Buddha
- དགའ་ལྡན་ - སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་དང་པོ༔ pp 2-3 (1b1-2a5)
- dga' ldan - sangs rgyas kyi zhal chems dang po
- The Second Testament of the Buddha
- གསང་རོལ་ - སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་འདས་རྗེས་གཉིས་པ༔ pp 3-5 (2a5-3a5)
- gsang rol - sangs rgyas kyi 'das rjes gnyis pa
- The Third Testament of the Buddha
- བྱ་རྒོད་རིར་བབས་པ་ - སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་འདས་རྗེས་གསུམ་པ༔ pp 5-7 (3a5-4a4)
- bya rgod rir babs pa - sangs rgyas kyi 'das rjes gsum pa
- The Parting Testaments of the Four Vidyādharas
- རིག་འཛིན་བཞིའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་འདས་རྗེས་
- The Parting Words of Garab Dorje to Mañjuśrīmitra: The Three Statements That Strike upon the Vital Points, by Garap Dorje
- ཚིག་གསུམ་གནད་བརྡེགས་ - རིག་འཛིན་བཞིའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་འདས་རྗེས་ཀྱི་ཡི་གེ་ལས༔ དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་ཚིག་གསུམ་གནད་དུ་བརྡེག་པ་བཞུགས་སོ༔ pp 7-9 (4a4-5a3)
- dga' rab rdo rje'i zhal chems tshig gsum gnad du brdeg pa
- The Parting Words of Mañjuśrīmitra to Śrīsiṃha: The Six Meditation Experiences, by Mañjuśrīmitra
- སྒོམ་ཉམས་དྲུག་པ་ - འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན་གྱི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་སྒོམ་ཉམས་དྲུག་པ་བཞུགས་སོ༔ pp 9-11 (5a3-6a6)
- 'jam dpal bshes gnyen gyi zhal chems sgom nyams drug pa by 'jam dpal bshes gnyen
- The Parting Words of Śrīsiṃha to Jñānasūtra: The Seven Nails, by Śrīsiṃha
- གཟེར་བུ་བདུན་པ་ - ཤྲཱི་སིཾ་ཧའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་གཟེར་བུ་བདུན་པ་|ཤྲཱི་སིཾ་ཧའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་གཟེར་བུ་བདུན་པ་བཞུགས་སོ༔ pp 11-13 (6a6-7a2)
- shrI siM ha'i zhal chems gzer bu bdun pa, by shrI siM ha
- The Parting Words of Jñānasūtra to Vimalamitra: The Four Methods of Leaving Things as They Are, by Jñānasutra (ཛྙཱ་ན་སཱུཏྲ་)
- བཞག་ཐབས་བཞི་པ་ - ཡེ་ཤེས་མདོའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་བཞག་ཐབས་བཞི་པ་བཞུགས་སོ༔ pp 13-15 (7a2-8a6)
- ye shes mdo'i zhal chems bzhag thabs bzhi pa, by dz+nyA na sUtra
- The Net of Purity: A Ritual for the Elaborate Empowerment
- A Clear Exposition of the Names for the Elaborate Mandala
- The Net of Precious Gems: A Ritual for the Unelaborate Empowerment
- The Net of Lotuses: A Ritual for the Extremely Unelaborate Empowerment
- The Adornment of the Four Continents: An Offering Ritual of the Five Mandalas
- The Net of Light: A Ritual for the Supremely Unelaborate Empowerment
- The Wish-Fulfilling Net: An Offering Ritual of the Five Mandalas of the Five Offering Substances
- The Wish-Fulfilling Sea: A Ritual for the Offering of Gaṇacakra
- The Heart Essence Mother and Child: The Stainless Words, a Guide That Brings Together the Two Traditions, Mother and Child, of the Secret Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
- The Luminous Lamp: An Empowerment Ritual for the Secret Cycle of the Great Perfection
- Guiding Instructions
- A Great Guide for the Supreme Secret Path by Longchen Rapjam
- The Heart of Practical Instructions
- ལག་ཁྲིད་སྙིང་པོ་ pp 251-255
- lag khrid snying po, by klong chen rab 'byams
- Part Five: Essential Instructions
- Part Five: Essential Instructions
- General Teachings on the Great Perfection
- A Heap of Jewels: An Outer Presentation of the Common Gradual Path of Sutra and Mantra
- The Precious and Illuminating Lamp: A Gradual Path of the Secret Mantra
- The Essence of the Gradual Path of the Secret Mantra: A Pointing-Out Instruction in Five Parts through Which the Nature of the Mind Is Nakedly Shown
- Instructions for Meditation on the Gradual Path of the Secret Mantra Given in the Manner of an Introduction to the Nature of the Mind
- The Excellent Path to Enlightenment: A Three-Part Guide for Meditation on the Three Excellent Instructions of the Text Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: A Teaching of the Great Perfection
- A Prayer Belonging to The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Nature of the Mind
- An Essential Meditation Guide for the Stages of the Path according to The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Nature of the Mind: A Teaching of the Great Perfection
- The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Dharmatā: A Teaching of the Great Perfection
- The Natural Openness and Freedom of the State of Equality: A Teaching of the Great Perfection
- An Ornament for Samantabhadra’s Display: A Ritual of Homage Addressed to the Lineage Teachers of the Pith-Instruction Class of the Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
- An Authorization Ritual for the Practice of Ekajaṭī, Protectress of the Doctrine, together with the Six Guardians of Her Retinue
Footnotes
- ↑ All English titles reported here are from Richard Barron's 2013 translation of Kongtrul's catalog of the gdams ngag mdzod
- ↑ [[Wylie:|Barron, R.|Barron]], The Catalog, page 199, note 91: As Kongtrul notes below in his discussion of the lineages through which the teachings in The Treasury of Precious Instructions were transmitted, this text was to have been included at the behest of his guru, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, but the text was unavailable. There is a reference in the Blue Annals, 159, to a master of the anuyoga lineage named Dewa Saldze. The expanded version of the Nyingma Kama collection (rNying ma bka' ma shin tu rgyas pa), published in 120 volumes in 1999 by Khenpo Jamyang of Katok Monastery, contains a mahāyoga text attributed to “master Durtrö Dewa Saldze”: dPe chung rang gnas, vol. 51 (Zhu) pp. 125–44.
- ↑ Barron, The Catalog, pp 199, Note 95: Sems sde bco brgyad kyi dgongs pa rig ’dzin rnams kyis rdo rje’i glu bzhengs pa, vol. 1, pp. 171–81. The text of the catalog reads, in error, “eighteen masters of the Category of Mind” (sems sde’i slob dpon bco brgyad), but the colophon to the text itself (vol. 1, p. 181, l. 23) refers to “vajra songs sung by masters of awareness that distill the essence of the enlightened intent of the eighteen texts of the Category of Mind.”
- ↑ Barron, The Catalog, pp 199, Footnote 96: rDzogs pa chen po sems sde spyi’i snying po’i bstan bcos byang chub sems bsgom pa rdo la gser zhun, vol. 1, pp. 181–90. These first three titles are collected under one title (rDzogs pa chen po’i sems sde’i rgyud lung gi rtsa ba gces par btus pa rnams), vol. 1, pp. 163–90. This text has also been translated by Namkhai Norbu and Kennard Lipman as Primordial Experience: An Introduction to rDzogs-chen Meditation (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2001).
- ↑ Barron, The Catalog, pp 200, Note 109: Chenga Chökyi Drakpa, also known as Chödrak Yeshe, was the fourth Zhamar incarnation of the Karma Kagyu school. This title includes a short appended text, the lineage of which Kongtrul mentions below—that is, a supplication to the lineage of the Vajra Bridge cycle of the Category of Expanse, by Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje. As well, Kongtrul’s catalog omits mention of a final text in the section on the Category of Expanse, that is, Ocean of Timeless Awareness, a clear arrangement of yoga of four spiritual practices and the activity ritual for Ngönzok Gyalpo, from the Vajra Bridge cycle of the Category of Expanse (kLong sde rdo rje zam pa las / nyams len bzhi’i rnal ’byor dang he ru ka mngon rdzogs rgyal po’i phrin las gsal bar bkod pa ye shes rgya mtsho), vol. 1, pp. 441–77; the lineage of this text is discussed later in the catalog.
- ↑ All English titles reported here are from Blankleder, Helena and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Nyingma: Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga: Part Two. Compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul. The Treasury of Precious Instructions. Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet. Vol 2. Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2024.