Dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho

དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ཆོས་བསྐོར་གྱི་བྱུང་ཁུངས་ཉེར་མཁོ།

dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho

Essential Points on the Origins of the Cycle of Teachings on the Kālacakra

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Tāranātha's history of the Kālacakra teachings.

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Dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho. (Essential Points on the Origins of the Cycle of Teachings on the Kālacakra). Recension information:
Tibetan	TA ra nA tha. དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ཆོས་བསྐོར་གྱི་བྱུང་ཁུངས་ཉེར་མཁོ།, (Dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho). In Bcom ldan 'das thub pa'i dbang po'i mdzad pa mdo tsam brjod pa mthong bas don ldan sogs: Tāranātha's life of the Buddha and his histories of the Kālacakra and Tārātantra. Edited and reproduced by Ngawang Gelek Demo. With a foreword by D. Seyfort Ruegg. New Delhi: Ngawang Gelek Demo, 1971: 385-427. In Gsung 'bum/ tA ra nA tha (Rtag brtan phun tshongs gling gi par ma), Vol. 2: 1-43. Leh: C. Namgyal and Tsewang Taru, 1982-1987. In Gsung 'bum/ tA ra nA tha ('Dzam thang par ma), Vol. 2: 179-219. 'Dzam thang; Dzam thang dgon, 199-. In Gsung 'bum/ tA ra nA tha (Dpe bsdur ma), Vol. 3: 325-367. Pe cin: Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang, 2008.

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?

(Fourth Turning)

Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?

Madhyamaka

Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?

Zhentong

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 Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities)

Other Titles	~ Dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos skor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho bsdus pa
Literary Genre	~ History Texts - lo rgyus