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Articles/Reclaiming Faith: An Interview with Vipassana Teacher Sharon Salzberg and An Excerpt from Her New Book, Faith +
A teaching on faith by a contemporary American teacher +
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This text consists of a 1996 interview that Dr. Peter Michel conducted with the Dalai Lama in German and was translated into English later. It should be read with the understanding that this may be incorrect translation and should not be viewed as the Dalai Lama's actual thoughts no the subject. +
An article relevant for research into buddha-nature from East Asian perspectives. +
Buddha-nature is depicted as an assumed part of the doctrine. +
A teaching on buddha-nature by a leading American teacher +
The section on "The Identification of the Awakened Mind" (pages 29-34) contains extensive discussion of buddha-nature. +
Many important early Tibetan works on Buddha-Nature are reproduced in this volume. +
An teaching by a contemporary American Buddhist on buddha-nature. +
This is the core commentary by Gyaltsap Je used in the Geluk tradition to study the Uttaratantrashastra. +
A key Tibetan commentary on the Ratnagotravibhaga presented in French. +
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A translation of Maitreya's core text teaching buddha-nature, the Uttaratantrashastra, along with nine other Indian and Tibetan commentaries on the text. +
This is an essential text for the study of buddha-nature teachings in Tibet as its author and his teachings formed the basis for one of the two major schools of thought on Maitreya's teachings. +
This text by Maitreya/Asanga is the main source of buddha-nature teachings in India and Tibet. +
As the commentary to the ''Uttaratantra'' this is a crucial source text on the topic of buddha-nature. +
Texts/Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi 'grel bshad de kho na nyid rab tu gsal ba'i me long +
An important Kagyu commentary to the ''Uttaratantra'' that presents the text from the point of view of the Mahāmudrā teachings. +
An important sūtra source for the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'', particularly for its discussion of the nine examples that illustrate how all sentient beings possess buddha-nature. +
This is the essential source text for all lineages of ''Uttaratantra'' commentary in Tibet. +
This sūtra is quoted by Asaṅga twenty-eight times in his ''Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā'', making it the most frequently referenced work in the entire commentary. Though it is primarily considered a source for the fifth ''vajrapada'', enlightenment, it is notable for its discussion of several key concepts related to tathāgatagarbha theory. These include teachings on a single vehicle and it's description of the four perfections (''pāramitā'') of the dharmakāya, i.e. that it is permanent, blissful, pure, and a self. As well as the notion that buddha-nature is empty of adventitious stains but not empty of its limitless inseparable qualities, which would become the cornerstone of the Shentong position. +
Though the text is a brief overview of issues discussed in the ''Uttaratantra'', the Third Karmapa clearly views the treatise as not merely a sūtra work. As he states in the closing of the text, "This completes the determination of the buddha heart, the essence of the vajrayāna." (''sangs rgyas kyi snying po gtan la dbab pa rdo rje theg pa'i snying po rdzogs so''). The authors presents a theory of buddha-nature which is the base of all existence and endowed with the qualities of the Buddha and not empty of these transcendent qualities. He integrates many well known verses from the sūtras and tantras in his text. +
Almost one third of this short sūtra is quoted in Asaṅga's commentary to the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'', where it is used as a source for the exposition of the fourth ''vajrapada'', the element (''dhātu'' or ''khams''), as well as the sixth ''vajrapada'', the qualities (''guṇa'' or ''yon tan''), which are crucial aspects of the treatise's presentation of buddha-nature. +
