Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi bsdus pa'i don

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

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi bsdus pa'i don

A Synopsis of the Mahāyāna Uttaratantraśāstra

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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

Tibetan	'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན། (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi bsdus pa'i don). In 'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa'i gsung 'bum, Vol. 4: 1-10. Pe cin: Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang, 2007.

Philosophical positions of this text

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 

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity 

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Commentary of	~ Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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་

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