Jewel Treasure of the Dharmadhatu (Light of Berotsana 2024)

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Jewel Treasure of the Dharmadhatu (Light of Berotsana 2024)
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Root text translation of one of the Seven Treasures or seminal works composed by the illustrious illuminator of the Great Perfection doctrine, the Omniscient Longchenpa.

Not only was the unsurpassed Longchen Rabjam one of the most prolific Buddhist authors of the 14th century, he was a fully realized practitioner who relied on his own incisive knowledge to compose many unparalleled shastras or enlightened commentaries. He composed the Seven Treasures as his crowning achievement, and the Jewel Treasure of the Dharmadhatu is the pinnacle of them all. This astonishing masterpiece sets forth the structure and practice of the Great Perfection path known as trekcho, cutting through to original purity. The root verses are presented in poetically rhythmic, profound, and alluring verses that have been recited from memory by distinguished Dzogchen masters of the Great Perfection lineage for centuries up to the present time.

This publication also includes Omniscient Longchenpa’s autocommentary called A Treasury of Citations, which is an indispensable guide to the root verses that are woven throughout this shastra, to illuminate how they refer to the context of the ground, path, and fruition, as well as the view, meditation and conduct of this exceptional Great Perfection path. True to the title, this commentary disseminates the most crucial information by citing the original speech of Buddha Vajradhara found in the seventeen Great Perfection upadesha tantras, as well as including many quotations from the sutras, tantras, and shastras in general. In short, for trekcho and togal practitioners of the quintessential Heart Essence cycle of Atiyoga, this text clarifies the necessary stages to realize and accomplish complete enlightenment in a single lifetime, at the moment of death, in the dharmata bardo, or in a natural nirmanakaya pure realm. (Source: Berotsana Publications)


Citation Chonam, Lama, and Sangye Khandro (Light of Berotsana Translation Group), trans. Jewel Treasure of the Dharmadhātu (chöying rinpoche'i dzöd): With the Autocommentary, A Treasury of Citations. By Omniscient Longchen Rabjam. Ashland, OR: Berotsana Publications, 2024.


  • List of Illustrationsxiii
  • Foreword by Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche (Tibetan)xv
  • Foreword by Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche (English)xxi
  • Foreword by Khenchen Tsultrim Lodrö (Tibetan)xxix
  • Foreword by Khenchen Tsultrim Lodrö (English)xxxv
  • Foreword by Khenchen Sodargye (Tibetan)xli
  • Foreword by Khenchen Sodargye (English)xliii
  • Translators' Prefacexlv
  • PART ONE: THE ROOT VERSES
  • Introduction3
  • Chapter One: How Saṃsāra and Enlightenment Never Move from the Dhātu5
  • Chapter Two: Phenomenal Existence Arising as Pure Realms9
  • Chapter Three: Symbolic Indications for Bodhicitta13
  • Chapter Four: The Nature of Bodhicitta17
  • Chapter Five: The Transcendence of Effort, Achievement, Cause, and Result21
  • Chapter Six: All Is Contained within Bodhicitta25
  • Chapter Seven: Everything Is Spontaneously Accomplished within Bodhicitta from the Beginning29
  • Chapter Eight: Nonduality within Bodhicitta33
  • Chapter Nine: How All Phenomena Are Determined to Be the Profound Expanse of Bodhicitta37
  • Chapter Ten: How the Transcendent State Never Departs from Dharmatā43
  • Chapter Eleven: How Circumstantial Appearances Are Pure and Even like Space53
  • Chapter Twelve: How the Nature of Phenomena Is Originally Liberated in Bodhicitta from the Beginning57
  • Chapter Thirteen: How All Phenomena Awaken in Bodhicitta from the Beginning, Yet without Concerted Effort, Awakening
    Occurs Again
    65
  • Conclusion69
  • PART TWO: AUTOCOMMENTARY
  • Introduction73
  • Chapter One: How Saṃsāra and Enlightenment Never Move from the Dhātu81
  • Chapter Two: Phenomenal Existence Arising as Pure Realms101
  • Chapter Three: Symbolic Indications for Bodhicitta117
  • Chapter Four: The Nature of Bodhicitta135
  • Chapter Five: The Transcendence of Effort, Achievement, Cause, and Result149
  • Chapter Six: All Is Contained within Bodhicitta177
  • Chapter Seven: Everything Is Spontaneously Accomplished within Bodhicitta from the Beginning189
  • Chapter Eight: Nonduality within Bodhicitta201
  • Chapter Nine: How All Phenomena Are Determined to Be the Profound Expanse of Bodhicitta221
  • Chapter Ten: How the Transcendent State Never Departs from Dharmatā259
  • Chapter Eleven: How Circumstantial Appearances Are Pure and Even like Space319
  • Chapter Twelve: How the Nature of Phenomena Is Originally Liberated in Bodhicitta from the Beginning347
  • Chapter Thirteen: How All Phenomena Awaken in Bodhicitta from the Beginning, Yet without Concerted Effort, Awakening
    Occurs Again
    409
  • Conclusion443
  • Glossary of Terms, Phrases, and Categories455
  • Notes461
  • Works Cited469
  • Index473
  • Other Translations by Light of Berotsana475