Basic Meaning
Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.
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Also known as the analytic tradition (thos bsam gyi lugs), literally, "the tradition of hearing and contemplating," this form of exegesis explicated the Uttaratantra through philosophical reasoning and debate and thus entailed a primarily scholastic approach to the treatise. However, both the Ngok Tradition and its opposing counterpart, the Tsen Tradition, reportedly came from a single source, the Kashmiri scholar-yogi Sajjana.
As cited in Kano 2006 (see Appendix H, p. 624), according to Jamgön Kongtrul's commentary on the Uttaratantra, The Unassailable Lion's Roar, the lineage of the Ngok Tradition is:
- Maitreya
- Maitrīpa
- Ānandakīrti
- Sajjana → Atiśa
- rNgog
- Gro lung pa
- Shang tshe spong pa
- Nyang bran pa
- Phywa pa
- gTsang nag pa
- Dan bag pa
- Blo gros mtshungs med
- Phag gru rgyal mtsan bzang po
- Rong ston
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