Dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me

དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དགོངས་པ་གཅིག་པའི་འགྲེལ་ཆེན་སྣང་མཛད་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲོན་མེ།

dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me

Great Commentary on the Sacred Teaching on the Single Intention: Illuminating Wisdom Lamp

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Dorje Sherab's extensive commentary on the Sacred Teaching on the Single Intention (Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa), one of the core texts of the Drikung Kagyu tradition that is reported to be the oral teachings of Jikten Gönpo that were written down and edited together by his student Sherab Jungne.

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Dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me. (Great Commentary on the Sacred Teaching on the Single Intention: Illuminating Wisdom Lamp). Recension information:
Tibetan	Rdo rje shes rab. དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དགོངས་པ་གཅིག་པའི་འགྲེལ་ཆེན་སྣང་མཛད་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲོན་མེ།, (Dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me). Shang kang: Shang kang then mA dpe skrun khang gis bskrun zhing bkram, 2006.

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

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?

Meditative Tradition

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity

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Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Literary Genre	~ Commentaries - 'grel pa
Commentary of	~ Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa

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Dorje Sherab

Jikten Gönpo

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Illuminator, a Light of Gnosis

It was the Buddhist nun and travel writer Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969) who brought the manuscript “Illuminator, a Light of Gnosis – The Great Commentary on The Single Intention” by Dorje Sherab from Asia to France. The German foundation Garchen Stiftung reproduced the precious manuscript in its original size and colors. Thus the work is available to an audience of traditional and western experts as well as students of the Tibetan language.

Dorje Sherab (rdo rje shes rab). Illuminator, a Light of Gnosis: The Great Commentary on the Single Intention (dGongs gcig 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me). With an Introduction by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. The Manuscript at the Musée Guimet in Paris Brought to France by Alexandra David-Néel. Reproduction of the Manuscript in Its Original Size and Colors. Munich: Edition Garchen Stiftung, 2015.

Dorje Sherab (rdo rje shes rab). Illuminator, a Light of Gnosis: The Great Commentary on the Single Intention (dGongs gcig 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me). With an Introduction by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. The Manuscript at the Musée Guimet in Paris Brought to France by Alexandra David-Néel. Reproduction of the Manuscript in Its Original Size and Colors. Munich: Edition Garchen Stiftung, 2015.;Illuminator, a Light of Gnosis;Drikung Kagyu;Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa;Dorje Sherab;རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤེས་རབ་;rdo rje shes rab;spyan snga rdo rje shes rab;སྤྱན་སྔ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཤེས་རབ་; Error: no local variable "MainNamePhon" has been set.;Error: no local variable "MainNameTib" has been set.;Error: no local variable "MainNameWylie" has been set.;Error: no local variable "AltNamesWylieRaw" has been set.;Error: no local variable "AltNamesTibRaw" has been set.;Error: no local variable "AltNamesOtherRaw" has been set.;Illuminator, a Light of Gnosis: The Great Commentary on the Single Intention - dGongs gcig 'grel chen snang mdzad ye shes sgron me. The Manuscript at the Musée Guimet in Paris Brought to France by Alexandra David-Néel. Reproduction of the Manuscript in Its Original Size and Colors;rdo rje shes rab

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