A Provisional List of Tibetan Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga
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A Provisional List of Tibetan Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga
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| Citation: | Burchardi, Anne. "A Provisional List of Tibetan Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga." Tibet Journal 31, no. 4 (2006): 3–46. |
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Abstract
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By the 12th century at least nine commentaries on The Ratnagotravibhāga had been written in Tibet, of which apparently only one has been preserved and reproduced. In the following two centuries at least 16 RGV commentaries were composed, of which ten, perhaps more, have been preserved. In the 15th and 16th centuries it seems that only eight RGV commentaries were written, of which at least five have been preserved. Only two commentaries were written in the 17th and 18th centuries, one of which has been preserved and in the 19th and 20th centuries seven RGV commentaries were written, all of which are preserved.
Here 45 Tibetan commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga (RGV), better known in Tibet as the Mahayanūttaratantrāśāstra, Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma bstan bcos or Rgyud bla ma are introduced as an attempt at charting all Tibetan RGV commentaries. A short presentation of their authors and their bibliographical references are given. The listing is in chronological order and the key data are provided in a chart in the appendix representing the result of research into various catalogues, hand lists and other accounts. It is my hope that some of those texts, which here are listed as lost, eventually will turn out to have been preserved. [1]
Notes
- Since Tathāgatagarbha in its various interpretations appear in a wide variety of literary compositions, the delimiting factor for compiling this list has been Tibetan commentaries that in their title explicitly state that they are commentaries on Ratnagotravibhāga. (Burchardi, preliminary remarks, 1)
