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Texts/'phags ma shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i snying po'i dka' 'grel 'gran zla med pa'i rgyal po tshig le'ur byas pa +
One of the Tāranātha's three commentaries on the Heart Sūtra, he presents the ultimate purport of the sūtras as being the ultimate other-emptiness. He comments on the sūtra and its transmission in verses, a very rare style for a work considered to be a commentary. Like his short word for word commentary and the detailed exegesis, this verse commentary explains the Heart Sūtra in accordance with the theories of other-emptiness. Tāranātha also claims he is unique in showing how the Heart Sūtra also captures the hidden themes of the eight topics discussed in some other longer versions of Perfection of Wisdom texts. The commentary was written when Tāranātha was 29 by Tibetan reckoning. +
Texts/Lung rigs gnyis kyis phyag rgya chen po'i bzhed tshul la 'khrul pa sel ba'i bstan bcos zung 'jug gru chen +
One of the three short texts on Mahāmudrā by Śākya Choden, this was written in response to a list of questions raised by a certain scholar named Karma Wangchuk Pel with regard to Sakya Paṇḍita’s critique of Neo-Mahāmudrā and Single White Remedy in his Distinguishing the Three Vows.
He begins with a cogent presentation of Mahāmudrā covering its sources, the objective Mahāmudrā, the subjective Mahāmudrā, its synonyms, the actual Mahāmudra experience among sublime beings, the analogous Mahāmudrā understanding among ordinary practitioners, and the Mahāmudrā concept according to the philosophical and tantric schools. Following this, he delves into how some later followers of Sakya and Kagyu tradition do not fathom the understanding of their respective teachings. He also points out how the followers of Kadampa tradition have missed the important original teachings of Atīśa and founding fathers.
In summary, Śākya Chokden underscores the point that there are two ways in which misconceptions are overcome: through an extrovert rational analysis and an introvert yogic contemplation. The Mahāmudrā tradition of Gampopa belongs to the latter category while the former includes the postulations of self-emptiness and other-emptiness. +
The second work in Śākya Chokden's trilogy of short writings on Mahāmudra, he points out in this text a list of the five types of misinterpretation of the actual point of Mahāmudrā practice:
1. The emptiness posited through Mādhyamika reasoning.
2. The union of emptiness and bliss which fills the network of channels after tantric practice of consecration.
3. Experience of bare consciousness free from all mentation.
4. Non-apprehension of the mind either inside or outside, having colour and shape, etc.
5. The ground consciousness which is the cause of all experience.
Śākya Choden states that none of these capture the profound, precise, effective Mahāmudrā technique of Gampopa, which is compared to the Single White Remedy, and explains how they are not the same as Gampopa’s Mahāmudrā. Śākya Chokden also distinguishes the Chinese Chan practice from Gampopa’s Mahāmudrā and goes on to explain their differences. He elaborates on the practice of Mahāmudrā through the four points of single-pointedness (རྩེ་གཅིག་), non-elaboration (སྤྲོས་བྲལ་), one taste (རོ་གཅིག་), and non-meditation (སྒོམ་མེད་). +
This is an outline and synopsis of the ''Uttaratantra'' by Chapa, one of the early Kadam scholars of Sangpu Neutok Monastery. +
The Seventh Precious Treasury: An Explanation of Śrī Guhyasamāja is a treatise on the two stages of the path in the Guhyasamāja tradition and delineates the ultimate truth and reality in the context of the sūtra and tantras. It also carries out discussion of different Tibetan interpretations of ultimate truth and buddha-nature. The text is also given the titles ''Twenty-One Doors of Liberation'' and ''Sixty-three Distinctions of Tenet Systems of Oneself and Others''. +
The text, Instructions of Ḍākiṇīs entitled Validity of the True Word (བཀའ་ཡང་དག་པའི་ཚད་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་མན་ངག) is one of the primary sources for Mahāmudrā meditation and six yogas of Naropas passed down through the Kagyu tradition. In this text, one finds the six dharmas of Tilopa (ཏི་ལི་ཆོས་དྲུག་) which are fundamental techniques for meditation to cultivate single-pointed concentration and non-conceptuality, and account of the six yogas of Naropa in some detail. The text is said to be teachings received by Tilopa from Vajradhara and then passed down through Naropa and Marpa who translated it into Tibetan. +
Jikten Sumgön, the founder of the Drikung Kagyu tradition, presented Mahāmudrā practice in five parts in his short poetic work called [[Texts/Phyag_rgya_chen_po_lnga_ldan_rtogs_pa%27i_mgur|''Hymns on the Fivefold Path of Realization'']] (ལྔ་ལྡན་རྟོགས་པའི་མགུར།). Capturing an important topic in each verse and using an effective analogy for each topic, his poetic work has become a well-known, concise text on Mahāmudrā and is widely cited in the later works. The five verses with translation by [[Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen]] of the Drikung lineage are given below.
༡) བྱང་སེམས་ཕྱག་ཆེན།
བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེའི་རྟ་ཕོ་ལ། །གཞན་ཕན་གི་དཀྱུས་ཐོག་མ་བཅད་ན། །ཁྲོམ་ལྷ་མིའི་འོར་ཆེ་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །སེམས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།
1. The Great Seal of Bodhichitta<br>
If the steed of love and compassion<br>
Does not run for the benefit of others,<br>
It will not be rewarded in the assembly of gods and humans.<br>
Attend, therefore, to the preliminaries.
༢) ཡི་དམ་ལྷ་སྐུའི་ཕྱག་ཆེན།
རང་ལུས་ལྷ་སྐུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ། །གཞི་འགྱུར་མེད་ཀྱི་བརྟན་ས་མ་ཟིན་ན། །མ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་འཁོར་འབངས་མི་འདུ་བས། །ལུས་ཡི་དམ་གི་ལྷ་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།
2. The Great Seal of Yidam Deity<br>
If one’s body, the King of Deities<br>
Is not stabilized on this Unchanging Ground,<br>
The retinue of dakinis will not assemble.<br>
Be sure, therefore, of your body as the yidam.
༣) བླ་མའི་མོས་གུས་ཕྱག་ཆེན།
བླ་མ་སྐུ་བཞིའི་གངས་རི་ལ། །མོས་གུས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་མ་ཤར་ན། །བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །སེམས་་མོས་གུས་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།
3. The Great Seal of Devotion<br>
If on the Guru, the Snow Mountain of the Four Kayas,<br>
The Sun of Devotion fails to shine,<br>
The Stream of Blessings will not flow.<br>
Attend, therefore, to this mind of devotion.
༤) གནས་ལུགས་ཕྱག་ཆེན།
སེམས་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ནམ་མཁའ་ཡངས་པ་ལ། །རྣམ་རྟོག་གི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་མ་དེངས་ན། །མཁྱེན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གཟའ་སྐར་མི་བཀྲ་བས། །སེམས་མི་རྟོག་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།
4. The Great Seal of the True Nature<br>
If in the vastly spacious space of the mind itself (cittata)<br>
The clouds of conceptual thoughts do not dissipate,<br>
The stars and the planets of the Dual Knowledge་will not shine.<br>
Attend, therefore, to nonconceptuality.
༥) བསྔོ་བ་ཕྱག་ཆེན།
ཚོགས་གཉིས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ལ། །སྨོན་ལམ་གྱིས་བྱི་དོར་མ་བྱས་ན། །དགོས་འདོད་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །རྗེས་བསྔོ་བ་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།
5. The Great Seal of Dedication<br>
If the two wish-fulfilling gems of Accumulations<br>
Are not cleaned and polished with aspiration prayers,<br>
The results of (your) hopes and expectations will not come to fruition.<br>
Attend, therefore, to the dedication of merits at the end.
In this work of ten verses on true reality, Maitrīpa presents the luminous nature of reality which is beyond any duality and apprehension. The text underscores the non-abiding and luminous nature of reality and how the instructions of the master is crucial for realising the authentic nature of Madhyamaka. Through this, Maitrīpa rules out that the True Aspectarian and False Aspectarian traditions of the Mind Only school and the scholastic Mādhyamika which do not rely on direct pith instructions of the guru can realise the true nature of reality. +
Texts/Chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa'i 'grel pa ye shes snang ba rnam 'byed +
Mipam's commentary on the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, one of the Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya (byams chos sde lnga) said to have been presented to Asaṅga by the bodhisattva Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven. +
Wǒnch'ǔk's commentary to the ''Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra'' was extremely popular in the Chinese outpost of Dunhuang, where Chos grub (Ch. Facheng; c. 755–849) translated it into Tibetan during the reign of King Ral pa can (r. 815–838). Only nine of the ten rolls of the commentary are still extant in Chinese; the full text is available only in its Tibetan translation, which the Tibetans know as the "Great Chinese Commentary" (Rgya nag gi 'grel chen) even though it was written by a Korean. (Source: "Wǒnch'ǔk." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 996–97. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
Among the numerous texts discovered at Drepung monastery's library through the efforts of Alak Zenkar Rinpoche and his team is a hitherto unknown commentary [on the ''Ultimate Continuum''] by one Lhodrak Dharma Senge. Although the manuscript is incomplete and missing the final pages which may have contained the colophon, the title on the first page and a note at the start of the commentary explicitly mention Lhodrakpa Dharma Senge as the author. Yet, apart from the obvious association of the author with the southern Lhodrak region of Central Tibet, we have no information on when and where he lived.
The style and content of the commentary suggest its composition was completed in the early classical period of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, most likely before the well-known commentaries on the ''Ultimate Continuum'' appeared at the peak of the classical period in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The manuscript itself, in ''dbu med'' script, bears some archaic characteristics, including the writing of the negative ''med'' (མེད་) as ''myed'' (མྱེད་) and the use of numerals instead of spelling numbers in full, such as རྣམ་འབྱེད་རྣམ་པ་༣་ instead of རྣམ་འབྱེད་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་ and ༢་མྱེད་ in the place of གཉིས་མེད།. [[Articles/Lhodrak_Dharma_Senge%27s_Commentary_on_the_Ultimate_Continuum| Read more here]]. +
A commentary on the the Ultimate Continuum containing word by word explanation as well as scriptural citations, the author critiques both the understanding of Buddha-Nature as mere emptiness of non-implicative negation and as absolute reality. +
This is a short treatise from the collection of bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs which was recently published containing books from Drepung Nechu library. Although the compilers attributed this work to Lochen Kyapchok Palzang, there is no colophon to confirm it. The work discusses the adamantine and luminous nature of Buddha-Nature. +
An outline of the Ultimate Continuum attributed to Lochen Kyapchok Palzang has verses in the beginning and end written with play of words used in a difficult poetic compositions. The outlines divides the main text into three sections, unlike most other outlines which presents the Ultimate Continuum in four sections. +
This is a commentary on the Ultimate Continuum which was discovered in the Nechu library in Drepung monastery recently. Although the compilers of the bKa' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs have attributed this to Lochen Kyapchok Palzang, the commentary does not have the same outline as the one said to have been authored by him. It also presents interpretations which align with the interpretations of Gyaltsap. Thus, it is possible the commentary is by a later Geluk author but nothing can be confirmed as the book has no colophon. +
This text, published as part of the bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs, is attributed to Lochen Kyapchok Palzang. It was found in the Nechu Lhakhang library in Drepung monastery. However, the text does not have a colophon and the content points to an earlier author named Chöshe, who was a disciple of Zulphowa. Presenting an early version of other-emptiness, this treatise presents different topics of advanced meditation based on the Ultimate Continuum. At the end of the text, one finds an account of how the teachings were passed down from Maitrīpa to Kashmir and then through the Tsen contemplative lineage. The account is almost identical to the account found in Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim's work with minor variations. +
An articulate synopsis of the seven vajra points in the Ultimate Continuum based on mainstream Geluk interpretation. Chone Drakpa Shedrup makes a clear distinction between the naturally abiding spiritual and the developed spiritual gene identifying the former with the emptiness of the mind and the latter with spiritual qualities such as compassion, renunciation and mind of awakening. +
A very clear commentary on the Ultimate Continuum by Taglung Choje according to the title page, the treatise presents a brief history of the teachings on the Ultimate Continuum and follows the meditative tradition from Tsen Khawoche. The authors also cites and critiques some Tibetan interpretations and is perhaps unique in arguing Dhammakāya pervades all phenomena and not just sentient beings. +
A commentary on the Ultimate Continuum composed by the Gelukpa master Yeshe Gyatso in 1992 in Chentsa Mani temple in Qinghai province, this concise and clear work generally follows the interpretations of Gyaltsap Darma Rinchen. +
Composed by Dondup Rinchen, the first teacher of Tsongkhapa, this clear and moderate-size commentary presents an interpretation of Buddha-Nature as reality which has latent qualities of the Buddha. Thus, Dhondup Rinchen's interpretations differs from the position held by his student Tsongkhapa and the latter's followers. He refutes the position held by earlier Tibetan scholars, which one finds later adopted by the Gelukpa tradition. +
