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    CONTENTS

Plate A	Buddha Shakyamuni....xiii
Plate B Amitabha and His Heart Emanation, Chenrezig....xiv
Plate C Thousand-armed Chenrezig....xv
Plate D Eleven-face, Ten-armed Chenrezig....xvi
Plate E Four-armed Chenrezig....xvii
Plate F Chenrezig Mandala....xviii
Plate G King Songtsen Gampo....xix
Plate H Great Mother Paramita....xx
Plate I Great Mother Paramita Caption....xxi
Plate J His Holiness Trulku Jigme Choedrak Rinpoche
70th Jekhenpo of Bhutan and His Eminence
Trizin Tsering Rimpoche....xxii
Foreword by H.H. Trulku Jigme Choedrak Rinpoche
               70th Jekhenpo of Bhutan....xxiii
Preface by H.E. Trizin Tsering Rimpoche....xxvi
Acknowledgment
Prologue   Part One - Supplication to the lineage lamas....xxxiii
                Part Two - Contents of Mani Kabum....xxxix
© His Eminence Trizin Tsering Rimpoche
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SECTION I
The story of Great Compassion & the Thousand Buddhas


Ch. 1   Teachings the benefits of Lord Amitabha Buddha field
Ch. 2 How the nirmanakaya Great Compassion arrived
            in Dewachen Pureland, the Buddha field of great bliss
Ch. 3 Emanating Buddha fields and performing benefit
           for sentient beings
Ch. 4 How the Noble One Lord Avalokiteshvara first
            having aroused supreme bodhicitta but after samsara
            was not emptied, his bodhicitta was broken, but then
            again his bodhicitta was aroused
Ch. 5 Taming by sambhogakaya
Ch. 6 Arising of the thousand Buddhas & two bodhisattvas
Ch. 7 Prophecies by former generations of Buddhas
Ch. 8 The five worldly actions
Ch. 9 Five world-transcending actions
Ch. 10 The virtues of the bodhisattva the Noble One
            Lord Avalokiteshvara
Ch. 11 The source of the sutra



Ch. 12  The source of the sutras, the great kindness and
            benefit for the bodhisattvas
Ch. 13 The word of the last turning
Ch. 14 The Buddha passing into nirvana
Ch. 15 The Truly Completely Enlightened One's nirvana
            and image representation prophecy
Ch. 16 Body representation of the Blessed One Shakyamuni
            and how the benefit for beings was performed
Ch. 17 Collection of tantras, secret mantras of Avalokiteshvara,
            ways of its descending and arising
Ch. 18 How the self-arising body, speech and mind arose
            in the country of India
Ch. 19 Taming the hell beings
Ch. 20 Taming the pretas
Ch. 21 Taming of small beings
Ch. 22 Taming flesh-eating beings
Ch. 23 Taming the rakshasis of Singala
Ch. 24 Taming the asura, Torma
Ch. 25 Taming the harmful sentient beings of Darkland
Ch. 26 The Noble One Lord Avalokiteshvara removing
            the suffering of the impoverished god
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Ch. 27  How by Great Compassion the merchants were released
            from the land of the rakshasis, Singala island
Ch. 28 Refuge from the suffering of transmigration and falling back
            of the gods
Ch. 29 The Asura Nangjed finding refuge from the hot hells
Ch. 30 Releasing Makyedra from the cold hell
Ch. 31 Releasing Angulimala from hell
Ch. 32 The son of Gangzang, Ngateg, being released from
            the animal realm
Ch. 33 Releasing Prince Dzeydan from the preta realm
Ch. 34 The Noble One Lord Avalokiteshvara kindly teaching
            the people of Snowland
Ch. 35 How by the twenty-one sutras and tantras the virtues of
            the Noble One Avalokiteshvara was taught
Ch. 36 The merchant's son Norzang interpreting the symbols
Ch. 37 Epilogue

SECTION II
The mahayana king of the three jewels,
Zamatog-kodpa sutra
Ch. 1   Zamatog-kodpa sutra, first part
Ch. 2 Zamatog-kodpa sutra, second part
Ch. 3 Zamatog-kodpa sutra, third part
Ch. 4 Zamatog-kodpa sutra, fourth sutra
SECTION III
Great Compassion Dharani
Ch. 1   The Noble Bodhisattva Lord Avalokiteshvara possessing
            one thousand hands and one thousand eyes,
            the vast completely perfect mind of unobstructed
            Great Compassion
Ch. 2 The Vast Beginningless Completely Perfect
            Great Compassion Dharani of the Bodhisattva
            Lord Avalokiteshvara, first part
Ch. 3 The Vast Beginningless Completely Perfect
            Great Compassion Dharani of the Bodhisattva
            Lord Avalokiteshvara, second part
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SECTION IV
The history and activity of the Dharma-protecting
King Songtsen Gampo
Ch. 1   Prologue
Ch. 2 Action of obtaining the beginning of holy Dharma in Tibet
Ch. 3 Action of being born
Ch. 4 Action of inventing Tibetan writing and
            translating the Dharma
Ch. 5 Action of empowerment, enthronement and emanation
            of Buddha fields
Ch. 6 Action of making law
Ch. 7 Action of inviting and bringing the yidam deity
Ch. 8 Action of sacred body, speech, and mind appearing
Ch. 9 Action of the yidam deity coming by being self-born
            in the country of Snowland
Ch. 10 Action of the Nepali Queen Tritsun, emanation of
            the deity Tronyerma, being invited to Snowland and
            meeting with the king of activities
Ch. 11 Action of the Nepali Queen Tritsun building red mountain
Ch. 12 Action of the Chinese woman Kongjo being brought
            and the ministers competing in trickery


Ch. 13  Action of building temples, taming the four ranges and
            border regions
Ch. 14 Action of building temples of the yidam deity and
            enforcing law
Ch. 15 Action of translating the Dharma and hiding termas
Ch. 16 Action on the occasion of being born as Jigtenwangchug
Ch. 17 Action on the occasion of being born as
            the Girl Sherabjen
Ch. 18 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Dhawadorje
Ch. 19 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Leynu
Ch. 20 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Jampatobdan
Ch. 21 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Rinchen
Ch. 22 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Choekyilama
Ch. 23 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Tsedjochen
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Ch. 24  Action on the occasion of being born as 
            Prince Dorjeder
Ch. 25 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Choekyisengge
Ch. 26 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Jangchubthugden
Ch. 27 Action on the occasion of being born as
            Prince Jigtenwangchug

SECTION V
The twenty-one actions of the king


Ch. 1   The speech of Great Compassion, the self-arising sutras, 
            the holy Dharma coming into existence
Ch. 2 The emanated prince entering the womb of the queen
Ch. 3 The action of the emanation prince being born
Ch. 4 Learning the Dharma letters
Ch. 5 Empowerment and emating Buddha fields
Ch. 6 Making the ten virtues into Snow Land Dharma law
Ch. 7 Bringing the naturally occurring deity of Great Compassion


Ch. 8   Producing the three self-arising images, the action of
            liberating from the fear of suffering
Ch. 9 The emanated king's supports of body, speech and mind
            and miraculous prophecy
Ch. 10 Action of marrying the emanation of Lhamo Tronyerma
Ch. 11 How after Princess Lhacig Kongjo was invited
            there was marriage
Ch. 12 Kongjo showing the earth examination
Ch. 13 Action of making temples to suppress the limbs
            of the geomantic situation like a rakshasi
Ch. 14 Making of the self-arising image
Ch. 15 Action of building the temple
Ch. 16 Action of making laws
Ch. 17 Establishing Snowland in happiness and
            empowering temples
Ch. 18 Action of the emanated king establishing Dharma
            in all the realms of Snowland
Ch. 19 The way the treasures were hidden
Ch. 20 How Great Compassion Teachings arose & the way
            they were hidden as treasure
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Ch. 21  The emanated king after showign the way and
            making the teachings spread, his body subside
Ch. 22 Epilogue
SECTION VI
The cycle of sadhanas of Great Compassion
Ch. 1   Great Compassion sadhana practice
            preliminary and main practice
Ch. 2 The trilogy of sadhanas, the wish-fulfilling Great Compassion
Ch. 3 Great Compassion wish-fulfilling gem one cycle
SECTION VII
Sadhana practice
Ch. 1   Union of the three yogas
Ch. 2 Oral instruction of the three mandalas medium sadhana
Ch. 3 Oral instruction of the pith of secret mantra
            extensive sadhana
Ch. 4 Secret practice of the three Victorious Ones
            combined as One
Ch. 5 The abridged Abhisheka of the Haughty One Hayagriva
Ch. 6 The secret cycle of the dakinis


Ch. 7   The sadhana of the secret wisdom dakinis
Ch. 8 The means of practice by the blessings of
            Great Compassion
SECTION VIII
Six fold cycle of Great Compassion,
explanation by means of six limbs
Ch. 1   Six-fold cycle of Great Compassion,  explanation by means
            of six limbs
Ch. 2 Epilogue
App. I Major and minor marks of the Buddha
App. II Glossary of terms
App. III Mudra plates
App. IV Bhutan map



PROPHECIES & TEACHINGS
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MANI KABUM
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HIS EMINENCE
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