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རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ།
Rinchen Terdzö Chenmo
The Great Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings


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Searchable Catalog of the Rinchen Terdzö Chenmo

This website represents a searchable catalog of all texts in the  རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། and includes full unicode Tibetan texts with metadata, as well pdf files of the texts as they appear in the Shechen Edition.

Preface to the Shechen Edition

The Rinchen Terdzö Chenmo is the largest of the Five Treasuries that Jamgön Kongtrul the Great ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas, 1813-1899) compiled throughout his life. This extraordinary collection is comprised of the main Rediscovered Treasures (gter ma) of Tibetan Buddhism and the texts necessary to bestow the related empowerments and explanations to practice them. Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo traveled for thirteen years throughout Central and Eastern Tibet in order to collect the texts and receive the transmissions for the many lineages that had become almost extinct and held by only a few people. The actual redaction and editing of the Rinchen Terdzö was accomplished by Jamgön Kongtrul at the monastery-hermitage of Dzongshö Deshek Dupa, a secluded mountain retreat located between Dzongsar and Kathok, where Khyentse Wangpo had revealed a set of termas related to the Eight Herukas (grub pa bka' brgyad). Wooden-blocks were then carved at Palpung Monastery creating a 60-volume edition. From this edition, another set of wooden-blocks was carved at Tsurphu Monastery with three additional volumes. These three included the Döjo Bumzang, which was compiled by Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (1646-1714) and is considered to be the "seed" of the Rinchen Terdzö, the autobiography of Jamgön Kongtrul, and the root text of Chogyur Lingpa’s Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo with a detailed commentary by Jamgön Kongtrul.

Sections of the Terdzö


List of Volumes