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Dharma Audience

• Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche - 2014 Teachings on Buddha Nature: The Uttaratantra Shastra
• Meridian Trust Collection
• [Bardor Tulku Rinpoche - Lovingkindness and BuddhaNature]

Teaching Series

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Uttaratantra: Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche at Land of Medicine Buddha

• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 1/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 2/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 3/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 4/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 5/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 6/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 7/9]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 8/9 (with Venerable George Churinoff)]
• [Buddha Potential 1 Part 9/9 (with Venerable George Churinoff)]

• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 1/7]
• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 2/7]
• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 3/7]
• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 4/7]
• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 5/7]
• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 6/7 (with Venerable George Churinoff)]
• [Buddha Potential 2 Part 7/7 (with Venerable George Churinoff)]

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་

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib. ས་སྐྱ་

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Geluk - The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama. Tib. དགེ་ལུགས་

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Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib. ཇོ་ནང་

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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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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