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Commentary on Toh 1664 — The Tengyur Treasury of Treatises

The Northern Treasury Mahayana Tradition

Background

This treatise belongs to the Tengyur — the Treasury of Treatises of the Northern Treasury Mahayana tradition, compiled and translated from the works of Indian masters over many centuries. The Tengyur contains more than three thousand treatises and doctrinal commentaries, a treasury of profound realization by great bodhisattvas and scholars. These works were reverently transmitted from the ancestral Buddha, the Buddha, through bodhisattvas such as Maitreya, Asaṅga, and Vasubandhu, and then preserved by Tibetan patriarchs down to the present day.

This text reflects the theoretical foundation of the Mahayana, where the teaching does not stop at individual realization but is directed toward the unsurpassed bodhisattva path — that is, the vow to liberate all beings from suffering. In this context, the Tengyur treatises serve to clarify the hidden meaning of the sutras, helping practitioners clearly understand the path of practice.

Main Content

Although the title of the text has not yet been fully translated by specialists, according to the Tengyur tradition and its position within the Treasury of Treatises (Toh 1664), this work is likely to discuss core topics such as the nature of Buddha-nature, the stages of bodhisattva practice, or the correspondence between wisdom (prajñapti) and ultimate reality (paramārtha).

In the Tibetan tradition, these treatises often apply a rigorous method of logical analysis (cit-mātṛkā) combined with direct meditation. They emphasize that all phenomena lack self-nature (anātman), all dharmas are impermanent (anicca), and suffering (dukkha) is the result of ignorance and craving. On this foundation, the bodhisattva path is built through the six pāramitās: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom.