byams chos sde lnga

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Tibetan Text

byams chos sde lnga

Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya
བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་

Basic Meaning

This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita.

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Key Term byams chos sde lnga
Topic Variation byams chos sde lnga
Tibetan བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་  ( jam chöde nga)
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration byams chos sde lnga  ( jam chöde nga)
Buddha-nature Site Standard English Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term five dharma works of Maitreya
Sarah Harding's English Term Five Dharmas of Maitreya
Ives Waldo's English Term five treatises of Maitreya, the five doctrines of Maitreya
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Source Language Tibetan
Basic Meaning This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita.
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Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism See page 159: In Tibetan, “the five books of Maitreya” said to have been presented to Asaṅga by the bodhisattva Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven; they are the Māhayāna-sūtrālaṃkāra, Abhisamayālaṃkāra, Madhyāntavibhāga, Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, and the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra).
Tshig mdzod Chen mo rgyal ba byams pas thogs med la gsungs pa'i chos/ mngon rtogs rgyan/ mdo sde rgyan/ rgyud bla ma/ chos dang chos nyid rnam 'byed/ dbus mtha' rnam 'byed de sde tshan lnga/ ...