Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus pa'i don

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན།

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus pa'i don

A Synopsis of the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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Recensions of This Text

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

Tibetan	Bsod nams rgyal mtshan. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན། (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bsdus pa'i don). In 'Phags yul rgyan drug mchog gnyis kyi zhal lung, Vol. 62: 1-10. Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 2015.

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 

Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?

Analytic Tradition 

Text Metadata

Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Commentary of	~ Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་

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.

Ngok Tradition - Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. རྔོག་ལུགས་