Tsadra Bilingual Library

Bilingual Buddhist Texts

This application provides three important collections of Buddhist texts and access to Tasdra Foundation resources:

Collections:

- The Treasury of Knowledge

- The Five Treatises of Maitreya

- The eDharma Courses Collection

- A collection of important Tibetan Texts

Tsadra Resources:

- The Timeless Treasuries Library

- The Tsadra Tibetan Catalogs

- The Translation and Transmission Conferences

- Buddhist Textual Visual Outlines for Study

The Treasury of Knowledge

The Treasury of Knowledge, a unique encyclopedic masterpiece by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodro Tayé (1813-1900), comprising the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet.

Included in the app are two digital editions of The Treasury of Knowledge:

- A bilingual edition that presents the original Tibetan work along with the English translation; and

The Treasury of Knowledge contains ten books, the first four of which are historically oriented, focusing respectively on cosmology, the Buddha, his teachings, and their propagation in ancient India and Tibet. The fifth book concerns the integration of monastic, bodhisattva, and mantra vows, while the next three (books six through eight) concern the cultivation of discriminative awareness, through study, reflection, and meditation, respectively. The last two books, nine and ten, offer Kongtrul’s syncretic analysis of the spiritual paths and goals attained through the causal and fruition vehicles of Buddhist practice. The Treasury also includes an introduction and a conclusion preceding and concluding the ten books, respectively.