Dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i rnam bshad lung don gsal byed legs bshad nyi ma'i snang ba

དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དགོངས་པ་གཅིག་པའི་རྣམ་བཤད་ལུང་དོན་གསལ་བྱེད་ལེགས་བཤད་ཉི་མའི་སྣང་བ།

dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i rnam bshad lung don gsal byed legs bshad nyi ma'i snang ba

Light of the Sun: Detailed Exposition of the Excellent Dharma, the Single Intention, a Well-Expressed Clarification of the Meaning of the Scriptures

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Rikdzin Chökyi Drakpa'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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Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, trans. The Buddha's Single Intention: Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön's Vajra Statements of the Early Kagyü Tradition. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2020.

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Dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i rnam bshad lung don gsal byed legs bshad nyi ma'i snang ba. (Light of the Sun: Detailed Exposition of the Excellent Dharma, the Single Intention, a Well-Expressed Clarification of the Meaning of the Scriptures). Recension information:
Tibetan	Drikung Chungtsang, 1st, (Chos kyi grags pa). དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དགོངས་པ་གཅིག་པའི་རྣམ་བཤད་ལུང་དོན་གསལ་བྱེད་ལེགས་བཤད་ཉི་མའི་སྣང་བ།, (Dam pa'i chos dgongs pa gcig pa'i rnam bshad lung don gsal byed legs bshad nyi ma'i snang ba). In 'Bri gung bka' brgyud pa'i chos skor, Vol. 2: 1-397. Leh, Ladakh: S.W. Tashigangpa, 1972. In Dgongs gcig 'grel pa nyi ma'i snang ba. Maryland: Drikung Kagyu Meditation Center, 1995. In Gsung 'bum/ chos kyi grags pa, Vol. 3: 1-382. Kulhan: Drikung Kagyu Institute, 1999. In 'Bri gung bka' brgyud chos mdzod chen mo, Vol. 99: 1-362. Lhasa, 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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Literary Genre	~ Commentaries - 'grel pa
Commentary of	~ Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa

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The First Drikung Chungtsang, Rikdzin Chökyi Drakpa

Jikten Gönpo

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The Buddha's Single Intention

This book presents an influential and extraordinary teaching of the Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism known as the Single Intention by the master Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön (1143–1217), along with its chief commentaries, principally the Light of the Sun by Rikzin Chökyi Drakpa (1595–1659).

Early in the history of the Kagyü school, the teachings of Jikten Sumgön were condensed into 150 core formulations called vajra statements. These pithy, revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention (Dgongs gcig), which presents the thought of the Buddha and the nature of the ineffable (brjod du med pa) in concise and direct expression. The Single Intention weaves the thread of ineffable mahāmudrā through the entire fabric of Buddhism. It presents mahāmudrā as pervading disciplined conduct, meditative concentration, and discriminative knowledge; ground, path, and result; view, practice, and conduct; and the “three vows” of prātimokṣa, of the bodhisattvas, and of mantra. Jikten Sumgön teaches how the fundamental values and insights revealed by the Buddha are woven into reality and therefore accessible to all.

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch manages to convey the unity of the Buddha’s message both in its particulars and in its scope. His deep and authoritative skill makes this the definitive presentation of one of the most unique and compelling works of classical Tibetan literature. (Source: Wisdom Publications)

Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, trans. The Buddha's Single Intention: Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön's Vajra Statements of the Early Kagyü Tradition. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2020.

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