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]] Thirteen great texts (Tib. གཞུང་ཆེན་བཅུ་གསུམ་; Wyl. gzhung chen po bcu gsum) — thirteen of the most important Indian shastras, which, together with the commentaries by Khenpo Shenga, formed the basis of the curriculum in many of the shedras of Eastern Tibet, especially Dzogchen Shri Singha.

Number Collection Title Author
1 Vinaya Pratimoksha Sutra Shakyamuni Buddha
2 Vinayasutra Gunaprabha
3 Abhidharma Abhidharma-samuccaya Asanga
4 Abhidharmakosha Vasubandhu
5 Profound View Mulamadhyamaka-karika Nagarjuna
6 Madhyamakavatara Chandrakirti
7 Chatuḥshataka shastra Aryadeva
8 Bodhicharyavatara Shantideva
9 Vast Conduct Abhisamayalankara Maitreya
10 Mahayanasutralankara Maitreya
11 Madhyantavibhanga Maitreya
12 Dharmadharmatavibhanga Maitreya
13 Uttaratantra Shastra Maitreya

Alternative Classifications

Dreyfus has said that the Bodhicaryavatara is not part of the list of thirteen,<ref>Dreyfus (2003) p. 130 and (2005) p. 277</ref> and seems to count Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika in its place. Yet, although recent editions of the thirteen texts actually include no less than eighteen root texts, the Pramanavarttika is not among them and Khenpo Shenga did not write a commentary to it. However, the Pramanavarttika is included in the list of eighteen major texts which form the basis of the curriculum in the Sakya school–the so-called “eighteen texts of great renown” (gzhung grags chen bco brgyad). This list consists of the thirteen great texts plus the following:

  1. Compendium of Valid Cognition by Dignaga
  2. Pramanavarttika by Dharmakirti
  3. Ascertainment of Valid Cognition by Dharmakirti
  4. Treasury of Valid Reasoning by Sakya Pandita
  5. Clear Differentiation of the Three Sets of Vows (sdom gsum rab dbye) by Sakya Pandita

Tibetan Texts

Konchhog Lhadrepa edition in 7 volumes, Delhi, 1987

The Root Texts (''rtsa ba'') (རྩ་བ་)

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

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Volume 4

Volume 5

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Volume 6

Alternative Translations

Notes

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Further Reading

Texts Enumerations 13-Thirteen