Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos zhes bya ba'i mchan 'grel

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ།

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos zhes bya ba'i mchan 'grel

Interlinear Commentary on the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra Treatise

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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The primary commentary to the Uttaratantra used in Nyingma monastic colleges.

Relevance to Buddha-nature

As one of Khenpo Zhenga's interlinear commentaries to the major Indian treatises, this text is widely studied in modern monastic universities.

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Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos zhes bya ba'i mchan 'grel. (Interlinear Commentary on the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra Treatise). Recension information:

Tibetan

Gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ།, (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos zhes bya ba'i mchan 'grel). In Gzhung chen bcu gsum, Vol. 2: 477-582. Delhi: Konchhog Lhadrepa, 1983. In Rgyud bla ma'i mchan 'grel. Bylakuppe: Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, 2002. In Rgyud bla ma dang mtshan brjod kyi mchan 'grel. No publication information. In Gsung 'bum gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba, Vol. 3: 571-684. Rdzong sar: Rdzong sar khams bye'i slob gling, 2004. In Gsung 'bum gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba, Vol. 13: 69-196. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2006.

Text Metadata

Other Titles	~ rgyud bla ma'i mchan 'grel
Text exists in	~ Tibetan
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