Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa nges don gsal bar byed pa'i 'od zer

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ངེས་དོན་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་འོད་ཟེར།

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa nges don gsal bar byed pa'i 'od zer

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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This work presents a late (14th century) Kadampa view on the Ratnagotravibhāga and the associated buddha-nature teachings by an influential representative of this tradition, often referred to as "the second Asaṅga" (thogs med gnyis pa).

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This work presents a late (14th century) Kadampa view on the Ratnagotravibhāga and the associated buddha-nature teachings by an influential representative of this tradition, often referred to as the second Asaṅga (thogs med gnyis pa).

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Other Titles	~ rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa nges don gsal bar byed pa'i 'od zer
Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Literary Genre	~ Commentaries - 'grel pa
Commentary of	~ RKTST 3363

Cittamātra - Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna. Skt. चित्तमात्र Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་

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་

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་