The Seven Treasuries of Longchen Rabjam

The Seven Treasuries of Longchen Rabjam
by Longchen Rabjam Drimey Ozer
Multiple files, a total of 7 Tibetan volumes

This is a complete set of the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa in fully searchable electronic format.  Adzom Drukpa's edition on paper is regarded as the best edition available though it is very rare and hard to obtain.  These days, a good paper edition of is essentially impossible to obtain but many people need the texts for their practice so we prepared a new electronic edition for everyone's benefit.

Our new electronic edition has the advantages that it can be searched easily and can also be used as a basis for printing one's own edition.  To prepare the edition, we used the Adzom Drukpa paper edition as our basis and also used Dodrupchen's revised edition of the same published late in the 20th Century in Gangtok Sikkhim to clarify the obscure parts of the Adzom Drukpa print.  Our electronic edition was input and meticulously edited during a full two years of work in our office.  It is an exceptionally good edition which is important to know because these works of Longchen Rabjam are regarded as possibly the very best literature ever written in Tibetan Buddhist history and also are the basis that most Nyingma practitioners use for their understanding yet are now very hard to obtain in a correct and easily readable format.  Our edition makes them available again in a particularly good edition.  We should thank David Lutz of the United States for his tireless and invaluable editorial assistance; his skills with editing were a major reason for the high quality of the edition.

We would also like to draw your attention to the other major works of Longchen Rabjam which we have prepared to a similar, very high level of quality.  These texts are available on our free Tibetan texts page.  This collection here plus those free editions of the Three Trilogies and so on mean that we have presented nearly all of Longchen Rabjam's texts on our site.  This is our offering to Longchen Rabjam and his tradition and we hope that it will be of considerable assistance to all those who need his works.

The electronic edition comes with our TibetD Reader software.  One of the unique features of the software is that it allows the entire collection of texts to be searched simultaneously for words and phrases, allowing a very high level of research into the content that has not previously been available.

The texts included consist of the seven treasuries written by Longchen Rabjam plus the commentaries that he wrote to them:
  theg mchog rin po che'i mdzod volumes 1 and 2;
  gnas lugs rin po che'i mdzod;
  gnas lugs rin po che'i mdzod commentary;
  grub mtha' rin po che'i mdzod;
  man ngag rin po che'i mdzod;
  chos dbyings rin po che'i mdzod and commentary;
  tshig don rin po che'i mdzod;
  yid bzhin rin po che'i dzod;
  yid bzhin rin po che'i dzod commentary in volumes 1 and 2;
  yid bzhin mdzod dka' gnad;
  yid bzhin mdzod don khrid;
  yid bzhin mdzod grub mtha';
  yid bzhin mdzod kumuda;

Some ancillary texts are included:
  le'u bco bgyad;
  klong chen rab 'byams lta ba la bskul ba