Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i kar TIka chen mo

དམ་ཆོས་དགོངས་པ་གཅིག་པའི་ཀར་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་མོ།

Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i kar TIka chen mo

Karmapa's Great Commentary on the the Sacred Teaching of the Single Intention

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The 8th Karmapa's commentary on the famous treatise, the Sacred Teaching on the Single Intention (Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa) by Drikungpa master Jikten Gönpo. The Single Intention is a compendium of critical philosophical, soteriological, and moral positions taught by Jikten Gönpo and written down by his disciple and nephew Sherab Jungne. The text contains 150 critical vajra words (རྡོ་རྗེའི་གསུང་) in seven groups (ཚོམས་), along with another 47 appended points (ལྷན་ཐབས་). The root text composed by Sherab Jungne has seen several commentaries, including one by the first Drikung Chungtsang Chökyi Drakpa. This extensive commentary by the 8th Karmapa Mikyö Dorje is perhaps the only long commentary by Karma Kagyu master on the Single Intention.

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Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i kar TIka chen mo. (The Karmapa's Great Commentary on the the Sacred Teaching of the Single Intention). Recension information:

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Mi bskyod rdo rje, (Karmapa, 8th). དམ་ཆོས་དགོངས་པ་གཅིག་པའི་ཀར་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་མོ།. (Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i kar TIka chen mo). In Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i kar TIka chen mo, Vol. 5: 267-454. Gayu thog rnam rgyal dgon: gayu thog rnam rgyal dgon bshad gr+wa thub bstan lung rigs dga' tshal gling, n.d. In Gsung 'bum mi bskyod rdo rje, Vol. 6: 728-944. Lhasa: s.n., 2004. In 'Bri gung bka' brgyud chos mdzod chen mo, Vol. 83: 1-290. Lhasa: 'Bri gung mthil dgon, 2004.

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?

Rangtong 

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 Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity 

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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