De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i mdo'i 'grel pa snying po rab gsal

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་སྙིང་པོ་རབ་གསལ།

de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i mdo'i 'grel pa snying po rab gsal

Elucidating the Essence: A Commentary on the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra

Commentary of Tathāgatagarbhasūtra

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Perhaps the first and only Tibetan commentary on the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, Zhangtön Sonam Drakpa interprets the sūtra according to theory of Other-emptiness and also carries out refutation of those who identity Buddha-Nature with store-consciousness and consider Buddha-Nature sūtras as provisional teachings.

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Commentary of	~ 'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

An important sūtra source for the Ratnagotravibhāga, particularly for its discussion of the nine examples that illustrate how all sentient beings possess buddha-nature.

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

neyārtha - Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true. Skt. नेयार्थ Tib. དྲང་དོན་