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Longchen Rabjam

The Seven Treasures or Treasuries (Tib. མཛོད་བདུན་, Dzö Dün; Wyl. mdzod bdun) are works by the omniscient Longchenpa which, together with the Trilogy of Natural Freedom, represent the extensive, scholarly or pandita's approach. They were not originally intended to be a collection.

Gangri Thökar where Longchenpa composed many of his writings, including the Seven Treasuries
The rock in Bhutan on which Longchenpa wrote some of the Dzogchen teachings
The view from the rock - Tharpaling Monastery is visible below

Longchepa

The Seven Treasuries are a collection of seven works, some with auto-commentaries, by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Longchenpa.

Of the seven, the following have been translated into English:

Gangtok, Sikkim: Dodrup Chen Rinpoche, c. 1968. (The complete set of printing blocks for this edition are now held at the National Library of Bhutan and re-printed from time to time on Bhutanese paper).
Gangtok, Sikkim: Lama Dawa & Sherab Gyaltsen, 1983. Reprod. from prints from the Sde-dge blocks belonging to Lopon Sonam Sangpo.
Gangtok, Sikkim, 1986. Reprint of Dodrup Chen Rinpoche ed.
Lumbini : Lumbini Internat. Research Inst., 2000. The oldest block print of Klong-chen Rab-'byams-pa's Theg mchog mdzod : facsimile edition of early Tibetan block prints ; with an introduction / by Franz-Karl Ehrhard. (Vol. 2 of Early Buddhist Block Prints from Mang-yul Gung-thang.)
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 *[[Drubta Dzö]] ([[grub mtha' mdzod]]),  [[Treasury of Philosophical Tenets]] , belonging to the genre of {{Wiki|tenets}} {{Wiki|literature}}.
 *[[Mengag Dzö]] ([[man ngag mdzod]]) -  [[Treasury of Secret Instructions]] , classified by [[Longchenpa]] as '[[path with result]]' ([[lamdre (lam bras]]))
-*[[Chöying Dzö]] ([[chos dbyings mdzod]]),  [[Treasury of the Dharmadhatu]] , with its prose commentary the [[Lungi Terdz]]ö ([[lung gi gter mdzod]])
+*[[Chöying Dzö]] ([[chos dbyings mdzod]]),  [[Treasury of the Dharmadhatu]] , with its prose commentary the [[Lungi Terdzö]] ([[lung gi gter mdzod]])
 * [[Nelug Dzö]] ([[gnas lugs mdzod]]),  [[Treasury of the Natural State]] , with its prose commentary the [[Desum Nyingpo]] ([[sde gsum snying po]])
 * [[Tegchö Dzö]] ([[theg mchog mdzod]]),  [[Treasury of the Sublime Vehicle]], a commentary on the [[Seventeen Tantras]] of the [[Menngagde]] [[division]] of [[Atiyoga]].