Bde gshegs snying po la bstod pa dad gus kyi gter chen po

བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་དད་གུས་ཀྱི་གཏེར་ཆེན་པོ།

bde gshegs snying po la bstod pa dad gus kyi gter chen po

The Great Treasure of Faith and Devotion: A Praise to Sugatagarbha

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Verses of praise to sugatagarbha, or buddha-nature, composed by Dölpopa.

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A praise of Buddha-Nature by Dolpopa underscoring how Buddha-Nature is the essence of all sūtra and tantra teachings.

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Bde gshegs snying po la bstod pa dad gus kyi gter chen po. (The Great Treasure of Faith and Devotion: A Praise to Sugatagarbha). Recension information:

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Dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan. བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་དད་གུས་ཀྱི་གཏེར་ཆེན་པོ།, (Bde gshegs snying po la bstod pa dad gus kyi gter chen po). In Gsung 'bum shes rab rgyal mtshan. Paro, Bhutan: Lama Ngodrup and Sherab Drimay, 1984: pp. 501-504. In Gsung 'bum shes rab rgyal mtshan ('dzam thang), Vol. 8: 620-623. 'Dzam thang: 'Dzam thang bsam 'grub nor bu'i gling gi par khang, 1998. In Dpal jo nang ba'i zhal 'don phyogs bsgrigs. Pe cin: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2002: pp. 551-555.

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sugatagarbha - Literally, the "essence" or "heart of the Bliss Gone One(s)," a synonym for tathāgatagarbha that is likewise often rendered into English by the term buddha-nature. Though it is often back translated into Sanskrit as sugatagarbha, this term is not found in Sanskrit sources. Skt. सुगतगर्भ Tib. བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

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