Treasury of Precious Qualities: A Commentary on the Root Text of Jigme Lingpa Entitled the Quintessence of the Three Paths

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Treasury of Precious Qualities A Commentary on the Root Text of Jigme Lingpa Entitled the Quintessence of the Three Paths (Hardcover)
By: Longchen Yeshe

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Author: Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche
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This well known original text presents in elegant verse the entire Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school. Despite the separation in time between the lives of the author Jimge Lingpa (1730-1798), and the great Longchenpa (14th century), who is considered to be the brightest luminary of the Nyingma school, the two are closely linked. Jigme Lingpa was a terton (discoverer of treasure teachings) who encountered Longchenpa in a series of visions. The Longchen Nyingtik, Jigme Lingpa's terma cycle of teachings and practices, is one of the most important systems in the Nyingma tradition. His Treasury of Precious Qualities is regarded as the summary and quintessence of Longchenpa's Seven Treasures. It is pithy and concise, makes use of elaborate poetic language, and is often presented as a concluding summary, indeed a crowning masterpiece, to the long, traditional course of studies in both the sutras and tantras.

Of the numerous commentaries that exist, the present text was composed by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche (1897-1975), of the monastery of Riwoche in Kham, who, like Jigme Lingpa, was a great scholar and terton. He left Tibet in the 1950s and was one of the first Tibetan masters to accept Western disciples.

Treasury of Precious Qualities; A commentary of the Root Text of Jigme Lingpa by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche ; Hardcover, Shambhala Publications; 457 pages , $34.95

Foreword xvii

Foreword xix

Introduction 1

Prologue 17

The title 17

Homage to the Three Jewels 18

Commitment to Compose the Text 20

Turning the Mind to the Dharma 25

The Value of Human Existence 27

An Incentive for the Practice 33

Impermanence 35

The Gradual Path of the Three Kinds of Beings 41

The Law of Karma 43

The Path of Beings of Medium Scope 65

The Sufferings of Samsara 67

The Extraordinary Path of Beings of Great Scope 95

The Preparation: The Four Wheels 97

The Foundation of the Path: Refuge 123

Cleansing the Mind by Training in the Four Boundless Attitudes 149

The Vow of Bodhichitta 157

The Precepts of Bodhichitta in Aspiration and Action 181

Impermanence demonstrated by the formation and destruction of the universe according to Buddhist cosmology 269

The gradual formation of the universe 269

The gradual formation of animate beings 270

The duration of the universe 272

The destruction of beings 273

The destruction of the universe 274

The period of voidness 274

The four periods reflected in the existence of an individual being 275

The ceaseless continuity of the process of formation and destruction 276

The Bardo 279

The four bardos 279

The four truths 283

Essential definitions and aspects of the four truths 283

The meaning of the term "four truths" 284

A sequential exposition of the four truths 284

The five aggregates 287

A Buddha's qualities of realization 297

The five paths and the thirty-seven elements leading to enlightenment 301

The two truths 307

The two truths according to the Madhyamika view 307

The specificity of the two truths 308

Their literal, etymological meaning 308

Their necessarily binary character 309

The kinds of cognition that validly ascertain the two truths 310

Divisions and categories of the two truths 310

The necessity and benefits of establishing the two truths 320

The Madhyamika school 323

The Svatantrika Madhyamikas 323

The Prasangika Madhyamikas 327

The twenty-one qualities of Dharmakaya wisdom 341

The three doors of perfect liberation 347

Notes 349

Glossary 401

Bibliography 441

Index 447

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