Vimalaprabhā
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विमलप्रभा
Vimalaprabhā
དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད།
dri ma med pa'i 'od
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Commentary of Kālacakratantra
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A crucial commentary to the Kālacakra Tantra purported to have been written by Kalkī Śrī Puṇḍarīka, the fabled Second King of Shambhala also known as Kulika Puṇḍarīka, though in the Tibetan tradition the work is sometimes attributed to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara whom Puṇḍarīka was considered to be an emanation of. In the Tibetan tradition it is counted among the Three Cycles of Bodhisattva Commentaries (Sems 'grel skor gsum), which are a trilogy of canonical commentaries attributed to the transcendent Bodhisattvas Vajrapaṇi, Vajragarbha, and Avalokiteśvara on the Cakrasamvara, Hevajra, and Kālacakra Tantras, respectively.
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Sanskrit | विमलप्रभा-नाम-मूलतन्त्रानुसारिणी-द्वादशसाहस्रिका-लघुकालचक्रतन्त्रराज-टीका. vimalaprabhā-nāma-mūlatantrānusāriṇī-dvādaśasāhasrikā-laghukālacakratantrarāja-ṭīkā.
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Tibetan | བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད། རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ། (bsdus pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po dus kyi 'khor lo'i 'grel bshad, rtsa ba'i rgyud kyi rjes su 'jug pa stong phrag bcu gnyis pa dri ma med pa'i 'od ces bya ba). BCRD Link: http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=7daecacd7ce54e32897ae0d2e3469de8&enc=sanskrit_romanized_title_4_search&coll=tengyur
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Philosophical positions of this text
Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?
Text Metadata
Text exists in | ~ Sanskrit ~ Tibetan |
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Canonical Genre | ~ Kangyur · Tantra · rgyud |
Literary Genre | ~ Commentaries - 'grel pa |
Commentary of | ~ Dus kyi 'khor lo |
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