Chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa chos kyi dbyings rnam par nges pa

ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ།

chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa chos kyi dbyings rnam par nges pa

Ascertaining the Dharmadhātu: a Detailed Explanation of the Dharmadhātustava

Commentary of Dharmadhātustava

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In this commentary on Nāgārjuna's Dharmadhātustava, the renowned Sakya scholar Śākya Chokden reasons that he wrote this commentary because many scholars misunderstand dharmadhātu or sphere of reality to be mere emptiness that is non-implicative negative and do not understand that it has a luminous aspect of awareness.

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Recensions of This Text

Chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa chos kyi dbyings rnam par nges pa. (Ascertaining the Dharmadhātu: a Detailed Explanation of the Dharmadhātustava). Recension information:

Tibetan

ShAkya mchog ldan. ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ།, (Chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa chos kyi dbyings rnam par nges pa). In Gsung 'bum/ shAkya mchog ldan, Vol. 7: 303-346. New Delhi: Nagwang Topgyal, 1995. In Gsung 'bum/ shAkya mchog ldan, Vol. 7: 319-363. Kathmandu: Sachen International, 2006. In Gsung 'bum/ shAkya mchog ldan (Rdzong sar khams bye'i glog klad par ma), Vol. 7: 379-430. Rdzong sar khams bye: Rdzong sar khams bye'i slob gling thub bstan dar rgyas gling, 2006-2007.

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 

Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?

Madhyamaka 

Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?

Zhentong 

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?

Analytic Tradition 

What is Buddha-nature?

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

Does the author advocate the Svatantrika or Prasangika view of emptiness?

Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་) 

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Commentary of	~ Chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa

prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明