Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus don

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྡུས་དོན།

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus don

A Synopsis of the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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This is an outline and synopsis of the Uttaratantra by Chapa, one of the early Kadam scholars of Sangpu Neutok Monastery.

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Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus don. (A Synopsis of the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra). Recension information:

Tibetan	Phywa pa chos kyi seng+ge. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྡུས་དོན།, (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus don). In Bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs thengs dang po, Vol. 7: 145-156. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2006.

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Commentary of	~ Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

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

Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib. བཀའ་གདམས་

Sangpu Neutok - Sangpu Neutok is an important monastery in central Tibet, just south of Lhasa, that was founded in 1072 by Ngok Lekpai Sherab, a disciple of Atiśa, and developed by his nephew, Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab. Originally a Kadam monastery with two colleges, it evolved into a monastery that includes both Sakya and Geluk traditions. At its peak in the 11th to 14th centuries, it was the most highly esteemed center for monastic education and the study of Buddhist philosophy in probably all of the Tibetan plateau. Many of the most consequential philosophers of the time studied there. Tib. གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག་

gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性