Bde gshegs snying po'i skor zin bris

མ་ཡིན་དགག་གི་རིགས་སོགས་གཤེགས་སྙིང་ཟིན་བྲིས།

ma yin dgag gi rigs sogs gshegs snying zin bris

Buddha Gene as Non-implicative Negation and Other Notes on Buddha-Nature

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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Found among the rare old manuscripts from Kham area, these notes appear in vols. 44 and 45 of the collection. They discuss the three types of the Buddha element at three stages and also link them to the ground, path and resultant stages and other aspects of the Dzogchen system. Some of the notes are signed by one named Tsul but it is not clear who the Tsul is.

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Bde gshegs snying po'i skor zin bris. (Notes on Buddha-Nature). Recension information:

Tibetan	Unknown. བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་སྐོར་ཟིན་བྲིས།, (Bde gshegs snying po'i skor zin bris). In Khams khul nas 'tshol bsdu zhus pa'i dpe rnying dpe dkon, Vol. 44: 607-630, and Vol. 45: 119-128. Collection of rare Nyingma texts from Kham, Tibet. No publication data. .

Philosophical positions of this text

Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?

Definitive 

Does this text belong to definitive or provisional meaning?

Definitive 

Do all beings have buddha-nature?

Yes 

To which "turning of the wheel" do the buddha-nature teachings belong?

Third Turning 

Are there one or three vehicles on the path to buddhahood?

1 

Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?

Meditative Tradition 

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities) 

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Other Titles	~ ma yin dgag gi rigs gshegs snying
Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Literary Genre	~ Notes - zin bris
Commentary of	~ Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

neyārtha - Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true. Skt. नेयार्थ Tib. དྲང་དོན་

triyāna - Commonly seen in a Mahāyāna context, the three vehicles are the Śrāvakayāna, Pratyekabuddhayāna, and Bodhisattvayāna, which reference the three different types of Buddhist practitioners. However, these three vehicles can also reference the three types of Buddhist teachings of the Hīnayāna, Mahāyāna (or Pāramitāyāna), and the Vajrayāna. Skt. त्रियान Tib. ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་ Ch. 三乗

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་

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.

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་

guṇa - The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being. Skt. गुण Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་ Ch. 功德