Wish-Fulfilling Treasury
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The Wish Fulfilling Treasure (Tib. ཡིད་བཞིན་མཛོད་, Yishyin Dzö; Wyl. yid bzhin mdzod) is one of the Seven Treasures composed by the omniscient Longchenpa.
Outline
Its 22 versed chapters are as follows:
- How samsara originates out of the ground.
- How Buddha realms are established for the benefit of beings.
- How the outer world develops.
- How the sentient beings within develop.
- The aeon of remaining.
- The aeons of destruction and voidness.
- The happiness and suffering of the inner and outer world.
- How to follow a spiritual friend.
- Abandoning negative friends.
- The master who teaches.
- The qualities of the disciple who listens.
- An elaborate presentation of the types of Dharma teaching.
- Contemplating the difficulty of finding a free and well-favoured human-life.
- Contemplating death and impermanence.
- Contemplating the nature of faith.
- Contemplating karma—causes and effects.
- Contemplating how samsara is suffering and nirvana blissful.
- Establishing the natural state.
- Preliminaries to meditative concentration.
- The supreme meditation of clear light.
- The stages of traversing the path.
- The fruition that is the culmination of meditation.
There is a large commentary on the root text, which is called the White Lotus (Wyl. pad+ma dkar po).
Tibetan Texts
- ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་, theg pa chen po'i man ngag gi bstan bcos yid bzhin rin po che'i mdzod, root text.
- ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་, theg pa chen po'i man ngag gi bstan bcos yid bzhin rin po che'i mdzod kyi 'grel pa pad+ma dkar po, Padma karpo commentary.
Translations
- Kennard Lipman, 'How the Samsāra is Fabricated from the Ground of Being' in Crystal Mirror V, pp. 340-350 (Chapter 1 only)