Theg pa chen po'i bstan bcos rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa

མདོ་སྔགས་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲེལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་འགྲེལ་པ།

mdo sngags rjes su 'brel bar byed pa'i bstan bcos chen po rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa

Commentary on the Ultimate Continuum, a Great Treatise Connecting Sūtra and Mantra

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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A commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāga by the famed scholar Bodong Paṇchen Chokle Namgyal. He considers this text a connector between sūtra and mantra traditions and argues that buddha-nature does not possess the qualities of the Buddha but is luminous and pure by nature.

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Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Literary Genre	~ Commentaries - 'grel pa
Commentary of	~ RKTST 3363

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

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Bodong - The Bodong tradition generally refers to the vast body of literature and activity stemming from Bodong Panchen Choklé Namgyal (1375/76-1451) and the monastery of Bodong E to the north of Sakya and the west of Narthang. Tib. བོ་དོང་

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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

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prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

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