ཡོན་ཏན་མཛོད · Yönten Dzö (Treasury of Precious Qualities) by Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798) is a comprehensive overview of the entire Buddhist path according to the Nyingma tradition.

This explorer presents Patrul Rinpoche's complete structural outline (sa bche) of the entire text — all 13 chapters, covering the three types of individuals, the Six Pāramitās, Secret Mantra Vajrayāna, and Dzogchen.

The outline spans from the preamble through the freedoms and advantages, impermanence, karma, the Four Truths, Bodhicitta, the Six Perfections (including the full Wisdom chapter with the four philosophical schools), Secret Mantra with empowerments and generation/completion stages, Dzogchen ground-path-fruition, and the five kāyas of the result.

What is a Sa Bche?

A sa bche (ས་བཅད།) — literally "division of ground" — is the traditional Tibetan method for mapping the architecture of a text. It works exactly like a directory tree on a computer: every topic is nested inside a larger topic, and every path through the outline — like 2.3.3.3.1.2 > Bodhisattva vow > Precepts > Training — is a unique address that tells you precisely where you are within the whole. Just as folders contain subfolders on a hard drive, each division of the sa bche contains further subdivisions, and the numbered path from root to leaf is your coordinate within the text's total structure.

Sa bche works like a mind-map. Great scholastic commentators used the sa bche as an analytical instrument — a complete logical decomposition of the text's argument. It reveals how each topic relates to every other: what contains what, what precedes what, and at what level of specificity any given passage operates. To read a text without its sa bche is like navigating a city without a map. To read it with the sa bche is to see the entire city from above while standing on any given street.

Patrul Rinpoche's outline of the Yönten Dzö is among the most meticulous such structures in the Nyingma scholastic tradition — mapping Jigme Lingpa's verses from the broadest division (preamble, body, conclusion) down through as many as twelve levels of nesting in the tantric chapters.

Functionality

• Structural outline — Expand and collapse the tree to explore the text's architecture at any depth. The breadcrumb trail at the top always shows your current position within the whole.
• Root text — Tap any chapter heading in the structural outline to jump directly to that chapter's root verses.
• Language selector — Switch between Tibetan, English, Polish, Russian, German, and French for chapter headings and root text display.
• Text size — Adjust the font size for comfortable reading on any device.
• Search — Find topics across Tibetan and English. Diacritics are optional — searching "sutra" will find "sūtra."
• Custom PDF — Press Print to generate a PDF of the currently selected path and its children — useful for creating focused study handouts of any section.

Credits

Developed by Andrzej R. Rybszleger, 2026. Contact: rybszlegerr@gmail.com