Various Editions of the Core Texts

There are already several editions of the Longchen Nyingtik Core Texts or Nyingtik Tsapö available, and undoubtedly more will follow. At the moment, three editions are available to us, the ‘classic’ 5 volume Shechen edition (1994), a 10 volume edition by Samye Ngagyur Rikdzö Tsomdrik Khang (2018) and an edition by Mirik Petrün Khang.

1994 Shechen Edition

The Shechen Tsapö

This is the standard edition consisting of five volumes. The first three volumes comprise Jigme Lingpa’s own treasures and writings and volume 4 and 5 comprise those of other masters such as The First Dodrupchen, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

A complete overview of all the texts and their translations, if available, can be found on the page Longchen Nyingtik Core Texts on the Rigpa Wiki.

Tibetan texts on the BDRC website: ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་རྩ་པོད

  • Note: before the five volume edition was published at Shechen, there was an earlier edition consisting of four volumes, called om, ah, hung and hrih. The first three volumes closely follow the catalogue of Jigme Losal Özer. However, for the Tikle Gyachen the index says ‘the arrangement from beginning to end’ and the later works by Khentse Wangpo such as the lineage prayer and the feast gathering, had already been included here. The fourth volume consists of many works of other authors, including Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, but not yet as many as found in the five volume edition. This work can be found here on BDRC

2018 Samye Ngagyur Rikdzö Tsomdrik Khang

Samye Ngagyur Rikdzö Tsomdrik Khang edition (2018)

In 2018 a ten volume edition was published by Samye Ngagyur Rikdzö Tsomdrik Khang and Böjong Böyik Penying Petrün Khang (the latter is connected with Alak Zenkar Rinpoche). To our knowledge, this is the first new edition of the core texts since the edition published by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Shechen Monastery in the early 90's.

A complete overview of all the texts and their translations, if available, can be found in our blog post Analysis of a New Edition of the Core Texts.

Nationalities Publishing House edition

Mirik Petrün Khang 2020

In 2020/22 a massive collection of texts containing 80 volumes was published by the Mirik Petrün Khang, the 'Nationalities Publishing House' or 'Minorities Publishing House', with a title that can be roughly translated as Supportive Background Teachings for the Works of the Early and Latter Omniscient Ones (kun mkhyen gong ‘og gsung gi rgyab chos skor). The ‘two omniscient ones’ obviously refers to Longchenpa and Jigme Lingpa. The main interest of this edition for us are those volumes that relate directly to the Longchen Nyingtik, namely volumes 44-54 and 64-68. Besides these, the collection also contains the 17 Dzogchen Tantras, the collected works of Longchenpa, Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche and Khenpo Ngakchung, all the commentaries on the Yonten Dzo and several other works.

We have written several blogs that analyse the contents of all the Longchen Nyingtik volumes.

The entire table of contents in Tibetan of all the volumes can be found here དཀར་ཆག་ཕབ་ལེན.