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:

Tibetan

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