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Here's a detailed translation of the Tibetan text you've provided:

The text begins with a standard honorific symbol (༄༅། །) that typically marks the beginning of Tibetan texts.

The first line states the Sanskrit title: "In the Indian language: Dharmadhātu Ratna Kosha Nāma"

The second line gives the Tibetan title: "In the Tibetan language: Chöying Rinpoche Dzö Chejawe"

This translates to: "The Treasury of the Precious Dharmadhātu" or "The Precious Treasury of the Ultimate Dimension."

This appears to be the title of a significant Buddhist text. "Dharmadhātu" (Chöying in Tibetan) refers to the ultimate nature of reality or the dimension of phenomena. "Ratna" (Rinpoche) means "precious," and "Kosha" (Dzö) means "treasury" or "repository."

This is likely referring to the famous text by Longchenpa (1308-1364), one of the most important masters in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It's one of his "Seven Treasuries" (mDzod bdun), which are central philosophical works in the Dzogchen tradition.

I'll provide a more detailed translation and additional context for this text:

1. 1. 1. Detailed Translation

• • Original Text:**

``` ༄༅། །རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། དྷརྨ་དྷཱ་ཏུ་རཏྣ་ཀོ་ཥ་ནཱ་མ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ། ```

• • Translation Elements:**

1. **༄༅། །** - This is a decorative and auspicious opening mark used at the beginning of Tibetan texts, similar to ornamental flourishes in medieval European manuscripts. It indicates the beginning of an important text.

2. **རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ།** (gya-gar ké-du) - "In the Indian language" or "In Sanskrit"

3. **དྷརྨ་དྷཱ་ཏུ་རཏྣ་ཀོ་ཥ་ནཱ་མ།** - This is the Sanskrit title written in Tibetan script:

  - **དྷརྨ** (dharma) - teachings, phenomena, truth
  - **དྷཱ་ཏུ** (dhātu) - realm, sphere, element
  - **རཏྣ** (ratna) - jewel, precious
  - **ཀོ་ཥ** (kosha) - treasury, repository
  - **ནཱ་མ** (nāma) - called, named

4. **བོད་སྐད་དུ།** (bö-ké-du) - "In the Tibetan language"

5. **ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།** - The Tibetan title:

  - **ཆོས་དབྱིངས** (chös-ying) - dharmadhātu, ultimate reality, expanse of phenomena
  - **རིན་པོ་ཆེའི** (rinpoche'i) - precious, jewel (in genitive form)
  - **མཛོད** (dzöd) - treasury, repository
  - **ཅེས་བྱ་བ།** (ches-ja-wa) - thus called, named thus

1. 1. 1. Deeper Context

This text is the title of "The Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhātu" (Chöying Rinpoche Dzöd), one of the Seven Treasuries (mDzod bdun) written by the 14th century Tibetan master Longchenpa (klong-chen rab-'byams-pa, 1308-1364).

In Tibetan Buddhist texts, it was traditional to provide both the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles at the beginning of a work. This practice served several purposes: 1. To authenticate the text as derived from Indian Buddhist sources 2. To show respect for the Indian origins of Buddhism 3. To help scholars locate corresponding texts across languages

The Dharmadhātu (Chöying) refers to the all-encompassing sphere of reality, the ultimate dimension where all phenomena arise, exist, and dissolve. In Dzogchen (Great Perfection) philosophy, it represents the fundamental nature of mind and reality—empty of inherent existence yet luminous and aware.

This particular text contains Longchenpa's profound exposition on the nature of mind and reality from the perspective of Dzogchen, the highest teaching in the Nyingma tradition. The work consists of verses with Longchenpa's own commentary and is considered one of the most profound philosophical expositions in Tibetan Buddhism.

The text explores themes such as the ground of being (gzhi), primordial purity (ka-dag), spontaneous presence (lhun-grub), and the inseparability of appearance and emptiness (snang-stong dbyer-med). It provides detailed instructions on the path of the Great Perfection and the realization of one's true nature. Here's a more detailed analysis of the Tibetan text:

1. 1. Precise Transliteration and Structure

- **Opening Symbol**: ༄༅། is the "yig mgo mdun ma" marking the beginning of traditional Tibetan texts. - **Sanskrit Title**: "Dharmadhātu Ratna Kosha Nāma" (དྷརྨ་དྷཱ་ཏུ་རཏྣ་ཀོ་ཥ་ནཱ་མ།) - **Tibetan Title**: "Chöying Rinpoche Dzö Chejawe" (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།)

1. 1. Etymology and Meaning of Terms

- **Dharmadhātu** (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་, Chöying):

 - "Dharma" (ཆོས་) refers to phenomena, truth, or the Buddha's teachings
 - "Dhātu" (དབྱིངས་) means realm, expanse, or dimension
 - Together they denote the ultimate nature of reality, the fundamental space in which all phenomena arise

- **Ratna** (རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་, Rinpoche):

 - Literally "precious" or "jewel"
 - In Buddhist contexts, often refers to something of supreme value

- **Kosha** (མཛོད་, Dzö):

 - A treasury, repository, or collection of precious things
 - In Buddhist literature, indicates a comprehensive compendium of teachings

- **Nāma** (ཅེས་བྱ་བ།, Chejawe):

 - "Called" or "that which is named" - a standard suffix in text titles

1. 1. Historical Context

This text is "The Precious Treasury of the Ultimate Dimension," one of the Seven Treasuries (མཛོད་བདུན་, Dzö Dun) composed by the master Longchenpa (ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་, Longchen Rabjampa, 1308-1364), who systematized the Nyingma school's approach to Dzogchen philosophy.

The Seven Treasuries include: 1. ཡིད་བཞིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ (Wishfulfilling Treasury) 2. ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ (Treasury of Dharmadhatu) - this text 3. གྲུབ་མཐའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ (Treasury of Philosophical Systems) 4. ཐེག་མཆོག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ (Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle) 5. མན་ངག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ (Treasury of Pith Instructions) 6. སྔགས་དོན་རྣམ་གཞག་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ (Treasury of Word and Meanings) 7. གསང་བའི་མཛོད་ (Treasury of Secrets)

1. 1. Philosophical Significance

The Chos dbyings rin po che'i mdzod addresses the nature of mind and reality from the perspective of Dzogchen ("Great Perfection"), the highest teaching in the Nyingma tradition. It presents:

- The view of primordial purity (ཀ་དག་, kadak) - Spontaneous presence (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་, lhündrup) - The indivisibility of appearance and emptiness - The natural state of awareness (རིག་པ་, rigpa) - The ground (གཞི་, zhi) of all phenomena

1. 1. Structural Content

The text consists of 13 chapters that progressively explain: 1. The ground of being 2. How delusion arises from this ground 3. How delusion can be reversed through understanding 4. The path to recognizing dharmadhatu 5. Descriptions of different levels of realization 6. The ultimate result of practice

1. 1. Cultural Impact

This text has been instrumental in preserving and transmitting the essence of Dzogchen teachings. It's studied extensively in Nyingma monastic colleges and retreat centers, particularly at Longchenpa's seat of Orgyen Samten Ling and other major Nyingma institutions like Mindroling, Shechen, and Dzogchen monasteries.

The text continues to be commented upon by contemporary masters and has been translated into several Western languages, serving as a foundational text for understanding the highest philosophical views in Tibetan Buddhism.

Introduction

This Tibetan line translates as:

"Homage to the Glorious Samantabhadra."

In more detail:

- **དཔལ་** (dpal) - "glorious" or "magnificent," an honorific prefix - **ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་** (kun tu bzang po) - "Samantabhadra," literally meaning "All-Good" or "Ever-Excellent One" - **ལ་** (la) - "to," a particle indicating the direction of the homage - **ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།** (phyag 'tshal lo) - "I prostrate" or "I pay homage"

This is the opening homage line of the text "Chos dbyings rin po che'i mdzod" (The Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhatu). It's traditional for Buddhist texts to begin with a homage to a buddha, bodhisattva, or deity.

In the context of this Dzogchen text, Samantabhadra has special significance. In the Nyingma tradition, Samantabhadra is revered as the Primordial Buddha (Adi-Buddha), representing the dharmakaya—the ultimate, unmanifested nature of enlightenment beyond form and concept. This homage establishes the lineage and spiritual authority of the teachings that follow in the text.