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ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ་སེང་གེའི་ང་རོ།
phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro
The Unassailable Lion's Roar
Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra
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Jamgön Kongtrul's commentary on the Uttaratantra which, according to Brunnhölzl, draws heavily from Dölpopa's work on the same subject. Over the course of time since Kongtrul's passing at the dawn of the 20th century up until the present this text has become the primary commentary to the Uttaratantra used in the Kagyu tradition.
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Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra
All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature, the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the "Five Treatises" said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand this ground of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. This seminal text details with great clarity the view which forms the basis for Vajrayana, and especially Mahamudra, practice. Thus it builds a bridge between the Sutrayana and the Vajrayana levels of the Buddha's teaching, elaborated here in Jamgön Kongtrül's commentary. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. By Arya Maitreya. Written down by Arya Asanga. With a commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas) "The Unassailable Lion's Roar," and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamsto Rinpoche. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.

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Phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro. (The Unassailable Lion's Roar). Recension information:
Tibetan 'Jam mgon kong sprul. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན་མངོན་སུམ་ལམ་གྱི་བཤད་སྲོལ་དང་སྦྱར་བའི་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ་སེང་གེའི་ང་རོ།, (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos snying po'i don mngon sum lam gyi bshad pa srol dang sbyar ba'i rnam par 'grel ba phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro).
  • Rumtek: Karma pa chos sgar, 1972. Printed from woodblocks preserved at Rumtek Monastery. BDRC Logo.png BDRC W21961
  • Rumtek (Library of Congress, Microfiche number; R-1636; I (Sik)-Tib-63, 72-905654.)
  • Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i tshig 'grel. New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2005. BDRC Logo.png BDRC W1KG13832
  • In Mdo sngags mtshams sbyor. Zi ling: Mtsho sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2004: 1-217. BDRC Logo.png BDRC W29022
  • In Dpal spungs dpe rnying gsar bskrun las gzhung lugs phyogs bsgrigs (dang po), Vol. 10: 85-274. Kangra, H.P.: Dpal spungs gsung rab nyams gso khang, 2006. BDRC Logo.png BDRC W1KG4335
  • In Mkhas dbang rag+hu wIra dang lokesha tsan+dra rnam gnyis kyis nyar tshags byas pa'i dpe tshogs (A collection of tibetan texts by Dr. Raghu Vira and Dr. Lokesh Chandra), Vol. 48: 277-368. BDRC Logo.png BDRC W1KG26281

Description from When the Clouds Part

Though this commentary (JKC) is the one that is used most widely in the Kagyü tradition at present, it is not translated in this volume for two reasons. First, except for its introduction (which incorporates a significant number of passages from BA and GC), JKC is for the most part an almost literal copy of Dölpopa’s commentary on the Uttaratantra.[1] Interestingly, this commentary does not exhibit the strong Shentong approach so familiar from Dölpopa’s major other works (it probably was composed prior to the revelation that lead to the formulation of his Shentong view). Secondly, JKC has already been translated.[2] However, some relevant excerpts from this commentary are incorporated throughout this book.

(p. 314)

  1. Dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan 1992b.
  2. The introduction of JKC is translated in Hookham 1991a, 263–88 and the remainder in Arya Maitreya, Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé, and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche 2000.

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Other Titles ~ theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos snying po'i don mngon sum lam gyi bshad srol dang sbyar ba'i rnam par 'grel pa phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro
~ theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i tshig 'grel
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Literary Genre ~ Commentary on Words - tshig 'grel
Commentary of ~ Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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