Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་མི་ཕམ་ཞལ་ལུང་།

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung

Words of Mipam: Interlinear Commentary on the Uttaratantra

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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Mipam's annotated commentary to the Uttaratantra, a commentarial style in which the root verses of the treatise are embedded in the text and are then explained word by word. This text overlaps significantly with his related work on this subject Lion’s Roar: Exposition of Buddha-Nature.

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Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung. (Words of Mipam: Interlinear Commentary on the Uttaratantra). Recension information:

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Mi pham rgya mtsho. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་མི་ཕམ་ཞལ་ལུང་།, (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung). In Gsung 'bum/ Mi pham rgya mtsho, Vol. 3: 349-562. Gangtok: Sonam Topgay Kazi, 1972. In Gsung 'bum/ Mi pham rgya mtsho: The expanded redaction of the complete works of collected writings of the famed Nyingma polymath, Jamgon Ju Mipam Gyatso, Vol. 4: 349-562. Paro, Bhutan: Lama Ngodrup and Sherab Drimey, 1984-1993. In Mi pham bka' 'bum, Vol 15: 1-172. Khreng tu'u: Gangs can rig gzhung dpe rnying myur skyobs lhan tshogs, 2007. In Mi pham gsung 'bum las gzhung 'grel skor, Vol. 17: 2-130. Khreng tu'u: 'Jam dpal d+hI yig ser po'i dpe skrun tshogs pa, 2008 In 'Ju mi pham bka' 'bum, Vol 15: 1-208. kaH thog rgyud sde bshad sgrub nor bu'i lhun pos bsgrigs. Chengdu: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2012.

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Literary Genre	~ Commentary with Annotations - mchan 'grel
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.

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

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

śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt. शून्यता Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ Ch. 空,空門

Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見

gzhi - The foundational basis of both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. It is often used as a synonym for tathāgatagarbha and dharmadhātu. Tib. གཞི་

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