Tai Situ Treasury of Knowledge vol 1 (PDF)

The 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche is one of the outstanding teachers of the Kagyu Lineage and is head of Palpung Sherabling. The Tai Situ lineage goes back in an unbroken lineage for twelve generations. Tai Situ teaches in fluent English and also is a calligrapher, author, and geomancer.

The Treasury of Knowledge written by Jamgon Kongtrul, the great, who was famous for collecting a vast number of Tibetan works which were being lost and writing about these works and helping develop the reme movement. He also wrote a massive five volume encyclopedia of Buddhist knowledge which has been translated into English and published by Snow Lion in to books each being about 500 page long.

The Ninth Situ Rinpoche worked with Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye on this renaissance movement. In 1996 the present Tai Situpa began a transmission and empowerment of these five great treasures. At these empowerments were many Rinpoches, an ordained sangha and also hundreds of devotes from around the World.

The First Volume of the Treasury of Knowledge covers the Treasury of Hidden Treasure Teachings (Rinchen Terzod) in which he discusses forty different topics including Padmasambhava, Creation and completion, The three vows, manifesting the mandala, four limitless thoughts, tantric mandala, Tummo, Phowa, Chod, Trekcho, and Togal, and the essence of Dzogchen in this 346 page book.