The Bibliography/Books

• Bernert, Christian, trans. Perfect or perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature: A Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga (v v.1.27-95[a]). Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2018.
• Brown, Brian Edward. The Buddha Nature: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha and Ālayavijñāna. Buddhist Tradition Series, 11. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1991. Reprint 1994.
• Brunnhölzl, Karl, ed., trans. Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature. Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2008.
• Brunnhölzl, Karl, ed., trans. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
• Coleman, James William. The Buddha's Dream of Liberation: Freedom, Emptiness, and Awakened Nature. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
• Dalai Lama, 14th. The Buddha Nature: Death and Eternal Soul in Buddhism. Woodside, CA: Bluestar Communications, 1997.
• Duckworth, Douglas S. Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. Buddha-Nature: Mahayana-Uttaratantra-Shastra (Khyentse Commentary), by Arya Maitreya. Edited by Alex Trisoglio. Khyentse Foundation, 2007.
• Fuchs, Rosemarie. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.
• Griffiths, P. J. and J. P. Keenan, eds. Buddha Nature: A Festschrift in Honor of Minoru Kiyota. San Francisco and Tokyo: Buddhist Books International, 1990.
• Guenther, Herbert V. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1971. Reprint of 1959, Rider & Co., London.
• Guenther, Herbert V. From Reductionism to Creativity. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989.
• Prasad, H. S., ed. The Uttaratantra of Maitreya, containing E.H. Johnson's Sanskrit text and E. Obermiller's English translation. Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica, 79. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1991.
• Holmes, Ken and Katia Holmes. Maitreya on Buddha Nature: A New Translation of Asaṅga's mahāyāna uttara tantra śāstra. Forres: Altea, 1999.
• Holmes, Ken and Katia Holmes, trans. The Changeless Nature. Newcastle: Karma Kagyu Trust, 1985.
• Holmes, Ken, trans. Ornament of Precious Liberation. Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
• Hookham, S. K. The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine According to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Hopkins, Jeffrey, trans., intro. Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix, by Döl-bo-ba Shay-rab-gyel-tsen (Dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan). Edited by Kevin Vose. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2006.
• Kano, Kazuo. Buddha-Nature and Emptiness: rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab and A Transmission of the Ratnagotravibhāga from India to Tibet. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 91. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien: 2016.
• Komarovski, Yaroslav. Visions of Unity: The Golden Paṇḍita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
• King, Sallie B. Buddha Nature. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1991.
• Kramer, Ralf. The Great Tibetan Translator: Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059–1109). Collectanea Himalayica. München: Indus Verlag, 2007.
• Loden, Geshe Acharya Thubten. Fundamental Potential for Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism. Melbourne: Tushita Publications, 1996.
• Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. 'Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal's Commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā, edited text in Tibetan script. Nepal Research Centre Publications 24, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2003. Reviewed by Pascale Hugon in Asiatische Studien, vol. 60, no. 1 (2006), pp. 246-253.
• Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. A Direct Path to the Buddha Within. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2008.
• Mipham ('jam mgon 'ju mi pham rgya mtsho). A Commentary on the Uttaratantra Shastra (rgyud bla ma) by Maitreya – Asanga. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group, John Canti, forthcoming.
• Nakamura, Zuiryū. Study of the Ratnagotra-uttaratantra. Tokyo: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1967.
• Rinchen, Geshe Sonam. Buddha Nature (Geshe Sonam Rinchen). New Delhi: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 2003.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort. Buddha-nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective: On the Transmission and Reception of Buddhism in India and Tibet. Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion. RoutledgeCurzon, 1989.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort. La théorie du Tathāgatagarbha et du Gotra; études sur la sotériologie et la gnoséologie du bouddhisme. Paris: École Française d'Extrême Orient, 1969.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort and Bu-ston Rin-chen-grub. Le Traité du Tathāgatagarbha de Bu ston Rin chen grub. Paris: École Française d'Extrême Orient, 1973.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Thought Part 1: Three Studies in the History of Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Philosophy. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 50. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2000.
• Schmithausen, Lambert. Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees. Lumbini, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2009.
• Sebastian, C. D. Metaphysics and Mysticism in Mahāyāna Buddhism: An Analytical Study of the Ratnagotravibhāga-Mahāyānottaratantra-śāstraṃ. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 2005.
• Stambaugh, Joan. Impermanence is Buddha-Nature: Dōgen's Understanding of Temporality. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
• Stearns, Cyrus. The Buddha from Dölpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. Tsadra Foundation Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2010.
• Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
• Takasaki, Jikido. Collected Papers on the Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2014.
• Thrangu Rinpoche. Buddha Nature: Ten Teachings on the Uttaratantra Shastra, by Arya Maitreya, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang. Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1993, 1988.
• Thrangu Rinpoche. The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature, translated by Ken Holmes and Katia Holmes, edited by Clark Johnson. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 2001.
• Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.
• Zasep Tulku Rinpoche. Buddha-Nature: The Mahayana Uttara Tantra Shastra: Maitreya's Root Text and Asanga's Commentary, based on a translation by Obermiller, E. Vancouver: Zuru Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre, 2001.
• Zimmermann, Michael. A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra: The Earliest Exposition of the Buddha-Nature Teachings in India. Biblotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica VI, Tokyo: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University. 2002.

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

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

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