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The Collected Works of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Rime Tenpa'i Gyaltsen Palzangpo, in twelve volumes, was published in 2012 by the Khyentse Labrang in Bir. Like Khyentse Wangpo before him, Chökyi Lodrö's compositions illustrate a remarkable breadth of scholarship befitting the epithet of the "Majestic Victory Banner of the Nonsectarian Teachings". The collection affirms much of what we know about the master and his personality. His compositions are remarkably consistent across a variety of literary genres and are characteristic of a cultivated and disciplined writer. He clearly emulated his predecessor in his service to the ris med ideal and his commentarial works, which span all of the major Tibetan traditions, attest to this. Though it is also interesting to note that some of the largest sections of the collection are made up of devotional works, such as praises and supplications, as well as an extensive collection of vajra songs. Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö was highly adept in the performance of tantric ritual and a prolific liturgist, thus by far the largest section of the collection is made up of ritual and practice materials that fill three volumes. In addition to these, there is an entire volume devoted to guru yoga, an equally lengthy section on the completion stage, and most of another volume devoted to protector propitiations and activity practices, suggesting that he was as concerned with the necessities of mundane existence as he was with the most profound aspects of advanced spiritual practice. Furthermore, the collection includes biographies, historical works, royal genealogies, and pilgrimage guidebooks to the sacred sites of Tibet and India, as well as materials related to his role as a functionary of two major monastic institutions. The latter includes his official correspondences, various proclamations and monastic regulations he instituted during his tenures at Dzongsar and Katok, as well as meticulous records of events, such as an accounting of offerings received, and even a personal diary of his daily activities. The Chökyi Lodrö Kabum with its many facets is, therefore, sure to delight scholars and practitioners alike and is truly an astonishing document of the life and work of this master of masters- one of the last great luminaries of old Tibet.
In terms of the overall structure of the collection, within the volumes the individual text entries are numbered and termed chos tshan. For the most part, these chos tshan include a single titled text, though it is not uncommon for a few, usually two or three, short texts to be included in one chos tshan. However, there are also a handful of instances in which large thematic collections of shorter works are subsumed under a single chos tshan, most of which can be found in volume eight and involve collections of advice or spiritual songs. While the extent of the volumes range from six to seven hundred some odd pages each, the order of the chos tshan presented in those successive volumes are organized according to related groupings of texts presented in sections termed sde tshan. There are twenty such sde tshan in the Chökyi Lodrö Kabum, which in this context function as an outline for the entire collection.
| 1 | སྡེ་ཚན་དང་པོ། ཐོག་མར་ཡིད་ཆེས་སྐྱེད་ཕྱིར་རྗེ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྐོར་དད་པའི་མཆིལ་རྣོན། | In order to engender trust, at the beginning of the collection there is the cycle of biographies of the Lord himself. |
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| 2 | སྡེ་ཚན་གཉིས་པ། བསྟོད་ཚོགས་སྐོར་རྒྱལ་ཀུན་དགྱེས་བསྐྱེད་ཚོགས་གཉིས་དཔལ་སྤེལ། | The cycle on the collection of praises, to increase the magnificence of the two accumulations to produce delight for all of the Victors. |
| 3 | སྡེ་ཚན་གསུམ་པ། གསོལ་འདེབས་སྐོར་སྤྱི་དང་བྱེ་བྲག་བརྒྱུད་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ་འདེབས་སྐོར་བྱིན་རླབས་བདུད་རྩིའི་སྤྲིན་གྱི་རོལ་སྒེག་ལས།ནང་གསེས་གསོལ་འདེབས་སྐོར། | The cycle of supplications, in general, and the specific lineage supplications and petitions for longevity, in particular, which are like the playful dance of clouds of blessed nectar. |
| 4 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཞི་པ། བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྐོར་ཡེ་ཤེས་བདུད་རྩིའི་སྣང་བ་མཆོག་སྦྱིན། | The cycle on guru-yoga that is like the supreme offering of the luminosity of wisdom nectar. |
| 5 | སྡེ་ཚན་ལྔ་པ། རྣམ་ཐར་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྐོར་གནའ་གཏམ་རྡོ་ཡི་རི་མོ། | The cycle of biographies and histories that is like the stone inscriptions of ancient history. |
| 6 | སྡེ་ཚན་དྲུག་པ། བཀའ་གཏེར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཕྲིན་ཆོག་ཁྲིགས་སྐོར་དངོས་གྲུབ་འདོད་དགུའི་བང་མཛོད། | The cycle of ritual arrangements, activity practices, and sādhanas from the Kama and Terma that is like a treasure trove of siddhis. |
| 7 | སྡེ་ཚན་བདུན་པ། ཁྲིད་ཟིན་སྐོར་ཟབ་དོན་སྙིང་པོ་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཡང་ཞུན། | The cycle of instructions and notes that is like the distilled nectar of the essence of the profound meaning. |
| 8 | སྡེ་ཚན་བརྒྱད་པ། ཞལ་གདམ་བསྐོར་ཀུན་ཕན་ཟླ་བ་བདུད་རྩིའི་འཛུམ་ཕྲེང་། | The cycle of advice that is like a crescent garland of nectar of the all benefiting moon. |
| 9 | སྡེ་ཚན་དགུ་པ། གསུང་མགུར་སྐོར་ཐོལ་བྱུང་བཛྲ་གི་རྟིའི་གསང་མཛོད། | The cycle of spiritual songs that is like the secret treasury of spontaneous vajra songs. |
| 10 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་པ། འགྲེལ་ཊཱིཀ་ཟིན་བྲིས་སྐོར་བློ་ལྡན་ཡིད་ཀྱི་དགའ་སྟོན། | The cycle of commentaries, sub-commentaries, and notations that is like delightful feast for the intellect. |
| 11 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། དགོངས་གཏེར་དག་སྣང་རྫོགས་རིམ་ཟབ་དོན་སྐོར་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔལ་གྱི་རོལ་མོ། | The cycle of the profound meaning of the completion stage from the mind treasures and pure visions that is like a magnificent symphony of co-emergent wisdom. |
| 12 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། གནས་ཡིག་སྐོར་ངོ་མཚར་དགེ་ལེགས་དཔྱིད་ཀྱི་འཕྲུལ་ཡིག། | The cycle of guides to the sacred sites that is like a magical guide to the abundance of wondrous virtue and goodness. |
| 13 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་གསུམ་པ། བཅའ་ཡིག་དང་འདོན་འགྲིག་སྐོར་བླང་དོར་གསལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ། | The cycle of regulations and pronouncements that is like a lamp that illuminates that which is to be accepted or discarded. |
| 14 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་བཞི་པ། གསུང་སྣ་ཚོགས་སྐོར་གྲུབ་གཉིས་མཆོག་སྦྱིན་ནོར་བུའི་གཏེར་བུམ། | The cycle of various teachings that is like a jewel treasure vase of the supreme offering of the two accomplishments. |
| 15 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅོ་ལྔ་པ། ཆོས་སྐྱོང་གསོལ་མཆོད་དང་བསང་བསུར་སྐོར་ཕྲིན་ལས་མྱུར་མགྱོགས་གློག་གི་ཟློས་གར། | The cycle of protector offerings, smoke, and burnt food offerings, activities that are as swift as a flash of lightning. |
| 16 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་དྲུག་པ། བཟོ་གནས་ཞལ་ཐང་བྲི་ཡིག་དང་ཆབ་ཤོག་སོགས་སྐོར་ངོ་མཚར་པདྨའི་དགའ་ཚལ། | The cycle of manuals for drawing, painting and crafts, along with official correspondences and so forth, that is like a delightful lotus garden. |
| 17 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་བདུན་པ། གསོ་རིག་སྐོར་གཞན་ཕན་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆར་རྒྱུན། | The cycle of medical texts that are like a continuous rain of nectar for the benefit of others. |
| 18 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་པ། སྨོན་ལམ་སྐོར་དོན་གཉིས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་དཔལ་གྱི་རོལ་མཚོ། | The cycle of aspiration prayers that is like majestic pools of the spontaneously accomplishment of the twofold purpose. |
| 19 | སྡེ་ཚན་བཅུ་དགུ་པ། བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྐོར་སྲིད་ཞིའི་དགེ་ལེགས་ཆར་འབེབས། | The cycle of benedictions that is like a rain shower of the virtue and goodness of existence and peace. |
| 20 | སྡེ་ཚན་ཉི་ཤུ་པ། པར་དུ་བསྒྲུབ་པ་སྔོན་རྗེས་ཀྱི་དཀར་ཆག་སྐོར་ཚོགས་གཉིས་རབ་འཕེལ་ལས། | The cycle of the catalogs of contents of the earlier and later printings that is like the full measure of the two accumulations. |
