De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་བསྟན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་བྱམས་མགོན་དགྱེས་པའི་ཞལ་ལུང་ནོར་བུ་དབང་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད།

de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel byams mgon dgyes pa'i zhal lung nor bu dbang gi rgyal po dri ma med pa'i 'od

Annotated Commentary on the Treatise on Pointing Out the Tathāgata Heart

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An annotated commentary written by the fifteenth Karmapa on the Third Karmapa's verses on buddha-nature, The Treatise on Pointing Out the Tathāgata Heart.

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De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel. (Annotated Commentary on the Treatise on Pointing Out the Tathāgata Heart). Recension information:
Tibetan	Mkha' khyab rdo rje, (Karmapa, 15th). དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་བསྟན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་བྱམས་མགོན་དགྱེས་པའི་ཞལ་ལུང་ནོར་བུ་དབང་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད།, (de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel byams mgon dgyes pa'i zhal lung nor bu dbang gi rgyal po dri ma med pa'i 'od). In Gsung 'bum mkha' khyab rdo rje (Dpal spungs par ma), Vol. 9: 437-474. Delhi: Konchhog Lhadrepa, 1993-1994.

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

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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Commentary of	~ De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos