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On the Ratnagotravibhāga by Alexander Gardner

The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows by Tsering Wangchuk

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* Practice Texts in different traditions * Verses of advice * Uncover your true nature! * Practice makes perfect... or does it? * Yes. Yes it does. ~ Buddha

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Khensur Rinpoche on the Uttaratantra

Uttaratantra by Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche

Dudjom Dorjee on Buddha-Nature

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Karl Brunnholzl Interview on translating the Uttaratantrashastra

Klaus-Dieter Mathes discusses the concept of buddha-nature

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The Concept of the "Innate Purity of the Mind" in the Agamas and the Nikayas

We Always Have Joy

Bka' yang dag pa'i tshad ma zhes bya ba mkha' 'gro ma'i man ngag

MSABh · Term

Sāgaramatiparipṛcchāsūtra

Not Always So

Image-likeness and the Tathāgatagarbha: A Reading of William of St. Thierry's Golden Epistle and the Ratnagotravibhāga

You Already Have What You’re Looking For

Impermanence is Buddha Nature

Emptiness and Buddha-Nature by Thupten Jinpa: Conversations on Buddha-Nature

ARIRIAB · Term

A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

Buddha Nature Sutras

Shakya Chokden's Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga: "Contemplative" or "Dialectical"?

pratipakṣa · Term

Phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro

Shentong – An Introduction

A Tree In The West: Competing Tathāgatagarbha Theories in Tibet

The Religions of Tibet (1980, Routledge)

Ratnadārikāsūtra

MMK · Term

Does a Dog See into Its Buddha-Nature? Re-posing the Question of Animality-Humanity in Zen Buddhism

rang stong · Term

Indo-Scythian Studies: Being Khotanese Texts, Vol. 5

A Second Tibetan Translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra in the Newark Manuscript Kanjur from Bathang: A Translation of the Early Period (snga dar)

Mipham's Sword of Wisdom

The Heart of Compassion

The Lion's Roar of the Ultimate Non-Dual Buddha Nature

Buddha-Nature Theories from Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Tibet by Klaus-Dieter Mathes

dpyad sgom · Term

bodhigarbha · Term

The Principle and Practice of Mahayana Buddhism

A Provisional List of Tibetan Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga

The Hevajra Tantra I

ZAS · Term

The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Two

Exposition of the Sutra of Brahma's Net

Mdo rgyud rin po che'i mdzod

Critical Edition of the Sanskrit Text of the Munimatālaṃkāra Chapter 1 (fol. 58r5–59v4): Passages on Caturāryasatya and Trisvabhāva Borrowed from Kamalaśīla's Madhyamakāloka

The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine according to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga-Review by Need

Matthieu Ricard: Conversations on Buddha-Nature

The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine according to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga-Review by Griffiths

The Uttaratantra of Maitreya

The Logic of Liberation: Epistemology as a Path to the Realization of Mahāmudrā

What is Tathāgatagarbha: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?

JBTS · Term

Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras

The Problem of the Sentience of Plants in Earliest Buddhism

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triviṣa · Term

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These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

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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

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