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General Contents

SECTION ONE: THE TRANSLATIONS

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Shenpen Dawa Rinpoche

Preface to the Second Edition

Credits for Illustrations and Maps

Technical Note

Guide to Pronunciation

Abbreviations for Section One

BOOK ONE: FUNDAMENTALS OF THE NYINGMA SCHOOL OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM

Detailed Contents of Book One

Translator’s Introduction

THE TEXT

Verses of Invocation

Introduction

PART ONE: DOCTRINES OF SAṂSĀRA AND NIRVĀṆA

1 The Essence and Definition of Dharma

2 Doctrines of Saṃsāra

3 Doctrines of Nirvāṇa

4 Transmitted Precepts

5 Treatises

6 Quantitative Treatises

7 Treatises of Inner Science

PART TWO: THE NATURE OF THE TEACHER ENDOWED WITH THE BUDDHA-BODIES

Introduction

1 Samantabhadra, the Buddha-Body of Reality

2 Vajradhara, the Emanation of Samantabhadra

3 The Two Buddha-bodies of Form

4 The Five Buddha-bodies and Five Pristine Cognitions

5 Distinctive Attributes of the Buddha-bodies and Pristine Cognitions

PART THREE: CAUSAL VEHICLES OF DIALECTICS

Introduction

1 The Three Promulgations of the Doctrinal Wheel

2 The Lesser Vehicle

3 The Greater Vehicle

4 The Superiority of Great Madhyamaka to Mind Only

5 The Provisional and Definitive Meaning of the Transmitted Precepts

6 The Enlightened or Buddha Family

7 The Two Truths According to Great Madhyamaka

8 Key to the Appraisal of Causal Vehicle Texts

9 A Recapitulation of the Causal Vehicles

PART FOUR: RESULTANT VEHICLES OF SECRET MANTRA

Introduction

1 The Superiority of Secret Mantra

2 The Essence and Definition of Secret Mantra

3 The Three Continua of Ground, Path and Result

4 The Four Tantrapiṭaka

5 Mahāyoga

6 Anuyoga

7 Key to the Appraisal of Secret Mantra Texts

8 The Superiority of Atiyoga, the Great Perfection

9 The Definition of Atiyoga

10 The Divisions of Atiyoga

11 A Recapitulation of the Resultant Vehicles

CONCLUSION

1 Concluding Remarks

2 Dedicatory Verses

3 Colophon

BOOK TWO: HISTORY OF THE NYINGMA SCHOOL OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM

Detailed Contents of Book Two

Translators’ Introduction

THE TEXT

Verses of Invocation

PART ONE: THE ORIGIN OF THE PRECIOUS TEACHING OF THE CONQUEROR IN THIS WORLD

Introduction

1 The Coming of Buddha, Teacher of the Doctrine

2 The Collecting of Transmitted Precepts by Councils

3 The Patriarchs of the Teaching

4 The Preservation of the Teaching and Spread of the Greater Vehicle

PART TWO: THE RISE OF THE PRECIOUS TEACHING OF SECRET MANTRA

Introduction

1 The Turning of the Secret Mantra Wheel

2 The Collecting of Transmitted Precepts by Different Compilers

3 The Emergence of this Teaching in the Human World

4 The Lineage of Mahāyoga, the Class of Tantras

5 The Lineage of Mahāyoga, the Class of Means for Attainment

6 The Lineage of Anuyoga, the Perfection Stage

7 The Lineage of Atiyoga, the Great Perfection

8 Concluding Remarks

PART THREE: THE ORIGIN OF THE CONQUEROR’S TEACHING IN TIBET

Introduction

1 The Three Ancestral Religious Kings

2 The Decline and Expansion of the Doctrine during the Intermediate Period

3 The Revival and Later Expansion of the Teaching

PART FOUR: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THREE INNER CLASSES OF TANTRA IN TIBET

Introduction

1 Mahāyoga and Anuyoga

2 The Mental and Spatial Classes of Atiyoga

3 The Esoteric Instructional Class of Atiyoga, the Innermost Spirituality

4 Longcen Rapjampa

PART FIVE: THE DISTANT LINEAGE OF TRANSMITTED PRECEPTS

Introduction

1 The Lineage of Nyak

2 The Lineage of Nup

3 The Lineage of the Zur Family

4 Biographies of the Rong Tradition

5 Dotokpa’s Lineage of the Zur Tradition

6 Biographies of the Kham Tradition

7 Miscellaneous Lineages of the Zur and Kham Traditions

8 Rongzom Chöki Zangpo

9 The Traditions of Vajrakīla

10 The Lineages of the Empowerment of the Sūtra which Gathers All Intentions

11 Later Lineages of the Transmitted Precepts

PART SIX: THE CLOSE LINEAGES OF THE TREASURES

1 The Nature, Purpose and Kinds of Treasure

2 Biographies of the Treasure-finders

3 Sangye Lama

4 Trapa Ngönshe

5 Nyang-rel Nyima Özer

6 Guru Chöki Wangcuk

7 Como Menmo

8 Orygen Lingpa

9 Ngödrup Gyeltsen or Rikdzin Gödemcen

10 Sangye Lingpa

11 Dorje Lingpa

12 Ratna Lingpa

13 Pema Lingpa

14 Karma Lingpa

15 Thangtong Gyelpo

16 Ngari Paṇcen Pema Wangyel

17 Rikdzin Jatsön Nyingpo

18 Rikdzin Düdül Dorje

19 Lhatsün Namka Jikme

20 The Fifth Dalai Lama

21 Rikdzin Terdak Lingpa, the Great Treasure-finder of Mindröling

22 Jikme Lingpa

23 Chogyur Decen Lingpa

24 Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

25 Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye

26 Mipham Jamyang Namgyel Gyamtso

Conclusion

PART SEVEN: A RECTIFICATION OF MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING THE NYINGMA SCHOOL

1 General Reply to Criticisms of the Nyingmapa Tantras

2 On the View of the Great Perfection

3 Response to Critics of the Sūtra which Gathers All Intentions

4 Response to Critics of the Root Tantra of the Secret Nucleus

5 The Continuity of the Nyingmapa Tradition and its Impact on the Other Schools

6 On the Validity of the Treasures

7 The Shortcomings of Refutation and Proof

8 On The Prophecies Found in the Treasures

9 The Relationship between the Nyingmapa and Pönpo Traditions

10 On the “Bad Luck of the Nyingmapa”

PART EIGHT: THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE DOCTRINE

1 Duration of the Doctrine

2 A Chronology of the Buddha’s Life

3 From the Buddha’s Final Nirvāṇa until the Beginning of the First Tibetan Sexagenary Cycle

4 From the Beginning of the First Sexagenary Cycle to the Present

5 Some Prophecies

CLOSING STATEMENTS

1 Primary Sources

2 Concluding Benedictions

3 Colophon

SECTION TWO: REFERENCE MATERIAL

Contents

Introduction

Guide to Pronunciation

Abbreviations for Section Two

NOTES

1 Fundamentals

2 History

GLOSSARY OF ENUMERATIONS

Introduction

Glossary of Enumerations

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Introduction

Part One: Works Cited by the Author

Works Cited by the Author

Part Two: Works Referred to by the Translators

1 Indic Texts

2 Tibetan Texts

3 Secondary Literature

4 Addenda to the Bibliography

ARTIFACTS AND MATERIAL TREASURES

Introduction

Artifacts and Material Treasures

INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS

Introduction

Index of Technical Terms

INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES

Introduction

Index of Personal Names

INDEX OF LOCATIONS

Introduction

Index of Locations

MAPS

Introduction

1 Buddhist India and Adjacent Regions

2 North-Central India

3 Tibet

4 Western Tibet and Nepal

5 North-Central Tibet

6 South-Central Tibet and Bhutan

7 North-West Kham

8 South-West Kham

9 Amdo

10 North-East Kham

11 South-East Kham

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