Treasury of precious qualities : a commentary on the root text of Jigme Lingpa entitled The quintessence of the three paths / by Longchen Yeshe Dorje ; translated by the Padmakara Translation Group ; forewords by H.H. the Dalai Lama and Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche.

In English; includes translation from Tibetan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-446) and index.

Foreword / Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche -- Homage to the Three Jewels -- Commitment to Compose the Text -- Turning the Mind to the Dharma -- The Value of Human Existence -- An Incentive for the Practice -- Impermanence -- The Gradual Path of the Three Kinds of Beings -- The Law of Karma -- The Path of Beings of Medium Scope -- The Sufferings of Samsara -- The Extraordinary Path of Beings of Great Scope -- The Preparation: The Four Wheels -- The Foundation of the Path: Refuge -- Cleansing the Mind by Training in the Four Boundless Attitudes -- The Vow of Bodhichitta -- The Precepts of Bodhichitta in Aspiration and Action -- Impermanence demonstrated by the formation and destruction of the universe according to Buddhist cosmology -- The gradual formation of the universe -- The gradual formation of animate beings -- The duration of the universe -- The destruction of beings -- The destruction of the universe -- The period of voidness -- The four periods reflected in the existence of an individual being -- The ceaseless continuity of the process of formation and destruction -- The Bardo -- The four bardos -- The four truths -- Essential definitions and aspects of the four truths -- The meaning of the term "four truths" -- A sequential exposition of the four truths -- The five aggregates -- A Buddha's qualities of realization -- The five paths and the thirty-seven elements leading to enlightenment -- The two truths -- The two truths according to the Madhyamika view -- The specificity of the two truths -- Their literal, etymological meaning.