June 3, 2011

Khenpo Zhangar: Nineteen Main Texts of the Indian Tradition

Khenpo Zhangar: Nineteen Main Texts of the Indian Tradition
The Root Volume of the Seven Volumes of Khenpo Zhangar's Thirteen Annotational Commentaries
A 600+ folio volume with nineteen major texts altogether
Khenpo Zhangar was the head, many years ago, of the famed Shri Singha college at Dzogchen Gonpa in Tibet.  He insisted on compiling a complete set of all the main Indian Buddhist texts that should be studied and then wrote a set of annotational commentaries on all of them.  The whole set comes in seven volumes.  The first volume is actually two normal volumes in size.  Called the root volume, it contains nineteen of the main Indian Buddhist texts that a Tibetan Buddhist would study.  The remaining six volumes contain his annotational commentaries to thirteen of the texts.  We have input the root volume specifically because it provides in one place, all of the main texts of the Indian tradition needed for studying Buddhadharma for all schools of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.  Note that, although Khenpo Zhanga's collection is titled "Thirteen texts ...", that only refers to the number of commentaries included.  The root volume actually contains the nineteen texts listed below.  The texts include the Five Dharmas of Maitreya and the six-fold Collection of Reasoning of Nagarjuna.  They are:

00The index
01The Bhikshu's Individual Emancipation Sutra of Shakyamuni Buddha, dge slong so so thar pai mdo
02The Root Vinaya Sutra of Shakyamuni Buddha, dul ba mdo rtsa ba
03phags pa gzhi thams cad yod par smra bai dge tshul 1 of Shakya Od
04phags pa gzhi thams cad yod par smra bai dge tshul 2 of Nagarjuna
05The Abhidharmakosha of Vasubandhu, chos mngon pai mdzod
06The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asangachos, mngon pa kun las btus pa
07The Root Middle Way Prajna of Nagarjuna, dbu ma rtsa ba shes rab
08Entering the Middle Way of Chandrakirti, dbu ma la jug pa
09The Four Hundred Verses Treatise of Nagarjuna, bstan bcos bzhi brgya pa
10The Seventy Verses on Emptiness of Nagarjuna, stong nyid bdun cu pa
11The Sixty Verses on Reasoning of Nagarjuna, rigs pa drug cu pa
12The Turning Away Arguments of Nagarjuna, rtsod pa bzlog pa
13The Finely Woven of Nagarjuna, zhib mo rnam par thag pa
14Entering the Bodhisatva's Way of Shantideva, byang chub sems dpa spyod pa la jug pa
15The Ornament of Manifest Realization of Maitreya and Asanga, mngon par rtogs pai rgyan
16The Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sutra Section of Maitreya and Asanga, theg chen mdo sde rgyan
17Distinguishing Centre and Extremes of Maitreya and Asanga, dbus dang mtha rnam par byed pa
18Distinguishing Dharma and Dharmata of Maitreya and Asanga, chos dang chos nyid rnam par byed pa
19Great Vehicle Highest Continuum Treatise of Maitreya and Asanga, theg chen rgyud bla mai bstan bcos

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