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<h1 class="large">The Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra</h1>
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<h1 class="large tib">ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།</h1>
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[[File:Maitreya-pecha1.png|x150px|class=rounded float-left mr-3 mb-2 depth-1|༄།བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ།།]]
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== Treatise on the Sublime Continuum or the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'' ==
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The teaching that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) was first proclaimed in the [[Tathāgatagarbhasūtra]]. Developed in a series of Mahāyāna sūtras, such as the Śrīmālādevīsūtra and Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśasūtra, it was then systematized in the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]], which is also called the [[Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra]] or in Tibet, the [[Gyü Lama]] (རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་).<ref>[[Kano, Kazuo]], [[rṄog Blo ldan śes rab's position on the Buddha-nature doctrine and its influence on the early gSaṅ phu tradition]]. [[Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies]] 32, no. 1-2 (2009) 2010: 249-283.</ref>
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== The Gyü Lama ==
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''Author'': '''Maitreya (Byams pa) or Maitreyanātha (Byams pa mgon po)'''<br>
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''Sanskrit Title'': '''Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'''<br>
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''Alternate Title'': '''Ratnagotravibhāga'''<br>
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''Tibetan Title'': '''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos'''<br>
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''Translated to Tibetan by'': '''Sajjana and Blo ldan shes rab'''<br>
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''Tibetan Catalogue'': '''Tôh. no. 4024. Dergé Tanjur, vol. PHI, folios 54v.1-73r.7'''
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The [[Gyü Lama]] (<span class="sans">རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་</span>), also called the [[Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra]] (<span class="sans">ཐེག་ཆེན་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་</span>), the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] (RGV), or simply the [[Uttaratantra]], is one of the most important texts of the Yogācāra tradition that expounds the tathāgatagarbha (buddha nature) theory, the idea that all sentient beings possess the nature of a buddha.<ref>Mathes, [[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]], 2</ref> The Tibetan Buddhist tradition holds the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] to be one of the Five Treatises that [[Maitreya]] taught to [[Asaṅga]] (4th century?). According to Klaus-Dieter Mathes, the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] was largely ignored until the eleventh century when Indian scholars and adepts attempted to bring the tantric teachings in line with mainstream Mahāyāna.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] and buddha nature theory provided the necessary doctrinal support for this kind of work, paving the road for its entry and subsequent importance within the Tibetan Buddhist dialogue.
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As a whole, the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] consists of three parts: (1) basic verses, (2) commentarial verses and (3) prose commentary, the third being the vyākhyā, the commentary attributed to [[Asaṅga]].<ref>Kano, [[RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine]], 17</ref> Issues with regards to [[Authorship of the RGV|authorship]] arise when comparing the Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan texts, as the only extant Sanskrit version<ref>critically edited by Johnston in [[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.</ref> attributes no author, and the only Chinese version, translated by Ratnamati sometime after 508<ref>Kano, [[RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine|RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga]], 17</ref>, attribues the entire text to Sāramati.<ref>For a detailed discussion regarding the authorship of the verses and prose, see Kano, [[RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine|RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga]]; Takasaki, [[A study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra), being a treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha theory of Mahayana Buddhism]]</ref> ([[Authorship of the RGV|You can see various interpretations of the RGV authorship here.]])
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The only extant Tibetan version of the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] was translated by rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab (1059–1109) and Sajjana (late 11th cent.),<ref>Kano, [[RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine|RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga]], 89</ref> though according to gZhon-nu-dpal there were a total of six translations made, the first by Atiśa (982–1054) and Nag-tsho Tshul-khrims-rgyal-ba (1011–1064).<ref>Ibid. 90
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:(f) Yar-klungs Lo-tsā-ba Grags-pa-rgyal-mtshan (1242–1346)</ref> rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab wrote the first commentary on the RGV<ref>Translated in Kazuo's Ph.D. dissertation, "[[rNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine]]</ref> officially bringing it into Tibetan discourse at the end of the 11th century, from which point, the various Tibetan interpretations of the buddha nature theory take off. Mathes points to the main issue in the various interpretations as being whether the teaching that all beings are buddhas is provisional or definitive in meaning.<ref>Mathes, [[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]], 3</ref> Over the next nine centuries, 45 commentaries were written on the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] alone<ref>Burchardi, [[A Provisional List of Tibetan Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga]]; Kano, [[RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine|RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga]] (See [[A List of the Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga|Appendix G]]) </ref>, and the text was referenced in "different ways to doctrinally support disputed traditions, such as the zhentong (gzhan stong) ("empty of other") of the Jonangpas (Jo nang pa) or sūtra-based mahāmudrā."<ref>Mathes, [[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]], 3</ref> The text also serves as an important basis for both the Dzogchen tradition of Longchenpa and the Mahamudra tradition of the Kagyüpas.<ref>Ibid., 1</ref>
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The emphasis of this site is to provide information on the resources available in the study of the [[Ratnagotravibhāga]] and all of its interpretations within the Tibetan Buddhist milieu. The information presented here is far from complete and will continue to develop as new scholarship arises. We welcome any feedback, and if you see any omissions or errors, [mailto:Research@tsadra.org please let us know via email].
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* [[#Maitreya's Root Text: Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra|Maitreya's Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra, Texts & Translations]]
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* [[#Asaṅga's Commentary: Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā|Asaṅga's Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā, Texts & Translations]]
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* [[#Selected Bibliography & Resources|Selected Bibliography of Books, Articles, Dissertations & Other Resources]]
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* [[Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra|Tibetan Catalogue of Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra]]
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* [[Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā|Tibetan Catalogue of Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā]]
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* [[A List of the Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga|Extensive List of Tibetan Commentaries]]
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* [[Records of Transmission Lineages (gsan yig) of the Ratnagotravibhāga|Transmission Lineages of the Ratnagotravibhāga according to Jamgon Kongtrol]]
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* [[Duckworth, Douglas]]. [[Mipam on Buddha-Nature]]: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. New York: SUNY Press, 2008.
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* [[Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche]]. [[Buddha-Nature, Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra]], by Arya Maitreya. Edited by Alex Trisoglio. [[Khyentse Foundation]], 2007.
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* [[Fuchs, Rosemarie]]. [[Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra]]. Commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé "The Unassailable Lion's Roar." Ithaca, NY: [[Snow Lion Publications]], 2000.
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* [[Holmes, Ken]] and [[Katia Holmes]]. [[Maitreya on Buddha nature : A New Translation of Asaṅga's Mahāyāna Uttara Tantra Śāstra]]. Forres: [[Altea]], 1999. (Translated from Tibetan)
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* [[Holmes, Ken]] and [[Katia Holmes]], trans. [[The Changeless Nature]]. Newcastle: [[Karma Kagyu Trust]], 1985. (Translated from Tibetan)
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* [[Kilty, Gavin]]. [[The Tathāgata Essence Commentary to the First Chapter of the Uttaratantra]], by [[Rinchen, Gyaltsap Darma]] (1364-1432). Unpublished, FPMT.
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* [[Kano, Kazuo]]. "[[rNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine]]." Ph.D. Dissertation, [[University of Hamburg]], 2006. Contains a critical edition in Wylie transliteration.
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* [[Kano, Kazuo]]. "[[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]]: rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab and A Transmission of the Ratnagotravibhāga from India to Tibet." WSTB 91. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde (Vienna Series for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies). Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, 2016. 
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* [[Mathes, Klaus-Dieter]]. [[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]]: Go Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga. Boston: [[Wisdom Publications]], 2008.
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* [[Mathes, Klaus-Dieter]]. ''[['Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal's Extensive Commentary on and Study of the Ratna-gotravibhāgavyākhyā]]''. In [[Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet]], 79-96. Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies ([[PIATS]]), Leiden, 2000. [[Brill's Tibetan Studies Library]] vol. 2, bk. 2 . Leiden : [[Brill]], 2002.
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* [[Mipham]] ('jam mgon 'ju mi pham rgya mtsho). [[A Commentary on the Uttaratantra Shastra]] (rgyud bla ma). Translated by [[Padmakara Translation Group]], [[John Canti]], forthcoming.
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* [[Obermiller, E.]], tr., [[Uttaratantra or Ratnagotra-vibhāga: The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation, Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism: The Work of Ārya Maitreya with a Commentary by Āryāsaṅga]], [[Acta Orientalia]] 9 (1931): 81-306. Re-printed in [[Prasad, H. S.]], ed. [[The Uttaratantra of Maitreya]], 1991. (Translated from Tibetan)
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* [[Prasad, H. S.]], ed. [[The Uttaratantra of Maitreya]]. Containing [[E.H. Johnston]]'s Sanskrit text and [[E. Obermiller]]'s English translation. [[Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica]], 79. Delhi: [[Sri Satguru Publications]], 1991. (Translated from Tibetan)
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* [[Stearns, Cyrus]]. [[The Buddha From Dolpo]]: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. Tsadra Foundation Series. Ithaca, NY: [[Snow Lion Publications]], 2010.
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* [[Takasaki, Jikido]]. [[A study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra), being a treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha theory of Mahayana Buddhism]]. [[Serie Orientale Roma]] 33. Roma: [[Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente]] (ISMEO), 1966. (Translated from Sanskrit)
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* [[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.
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The Source Text: The Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra


The Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།

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Treatise on the Sublime Continuum or the Ratnagotravibhāga[edit]

The teaching that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) was first proclaimed in the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra. Developed in a series of Mahāyāna sūtras, such as the Śrīmālādevīsūtra and Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśasūtra, it was then systematized in the Ratnagotravibhāga, which is also called the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra or in Tibet, the Gyü Lama (རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་).[1]


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The Gyü Lama[edit]

Text Information

Author: Maitreya (Byams pa) or Maitreyanātha (Byams pa mgon po)
Sanskrit Title: Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra
Alternate Title: Ratnagotravibhāga
Tibetan Title: Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos
Translated to Tibetan by: Sajjana and Blo ldan shes rab
Tibetan Catalogue: Tôh. no. 4024. Dergé Tanjur, vol. PHI, folios 54v.1-73r.7

The Gyü Lama (རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་), also called the Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra (ཐེག་ཆེན་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་), the Ratnagotravibhāga (RGV), or simply the Uttaratantra, is one of the most important texts of the Yogācāra tradition that expounds the tathāgatagarbha (buddha nature) theory, the idea that all sentient beings possess the nature of a buddha.[2] The Tibetan Buddhist tradition holds the Ratnagotravibhāga to be one of the Five Treatises that Maitreya taught to Asaṅga (4th century?). According to Klaus-Dieter Mathes, the Ratnagotravibhāga was largely ignored until the eleventh century when Indian scholars and adepts attempted to bring the tantric teachings in line with mainstream Mahāyāna.[3] The Ratnagotravibhāga and buddha nature theory provided the necessary doctrinal support for this kind of work, paving the road for its entry and subsequent importance within the Tibetan Buddhist dialogue.

As a whole, the Ratnagotravibhāga consists of three parts: (1) basic verses, (2) commentarial verses and (3) prose commentary, the third being the vyākhyā, the commentary attributed to Asaṅga.[4] Issues with regards to authorship arise when comparing the Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan texts, as the only extant Sanskrit version[5] attributes no author, and the only Chinese version, translated by Ratnamati sometime after 508[6], attribues the entire text to Sāramati.[7] (You can see various interpretations of the RGV authorship here.)

The only extant Tibetan version of the Ratnagotravibhāga was translated by rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab (1059–1109) and Sajjana (late 11th cent.),[8] though according to gZhon-nu-dpal there were a total of six translations made, the first by Atiśa (982–1054) and Nag-tsho Tshul-khrims-rgyal-ba (1011–1064).[9] rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab wrote the first commentary on the RGV[10] officially bringing it into Tibetan discourse at the end of the 11th century, from which point, the various Tibetan interpretations of the buddha nature theory take off. Mathes points to the main issue in the various interpretations as being whether the teaching that all beings are buddhas is provisional or definitive in meaning.[11] Over the next nine centuries, 45 commentaries were written on the Ratnagotravibhāga alone[12], and the text was referenced in "different ways to doctrinally support disputed traditions, such as the zhentong (gzhan stong) ("empty of other") of the Jonangpas (Jo nang pa) or sūtra-based mahāmudrā."[13] The text also serves as an important basis for both the Dzogchen tradition of Longchenpa and the Mahamudra tradition of the Kagyüpas.[14]


Tibetan Catalogue Information[15]
Version Catalogue # Category Vol. Folio #'s Alt
Peking 5525 sems tsam phi 54b7-74b6 (vol.108, p.24-32)
Dergé (Tôh.) 4024 sems tsam phi 54b1-73a7
Narthang 4314 sems tsam phi 48b3-69a3.
Kinsha [16] 3524 sems tsam phi 64b1 (p.33-3-1)
Cone 3991 sems tsam phi 51b1-69b1.

The emphasis of this site is to provide information on the resources available in the study of the Ratnagotravibhāga and all of its interpretations within the Tibetan Buddhist milieu. The information presented here is far from complete and will continue to develop as new scholarship arises. We welcome any feedback, and if you see any omissions or errors, please let us know via email.


The Five Dharmas of Maitreya[edit]

The Ornament of Clear Realization
Skt. Abhisamayālaṃkāra
Tib. མངོན་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་
Wyl. mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan
The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras
Skt. Māhayānasūtrālaṃkāra
Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་སྡེ་རྒྱན་
Wyl. theg pa chen po'i mdo sde rgyan
Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes
Skt. Madhyāntavibhāga
Tib. དབུས་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ་
Wyl. dbus dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa
Distinguishing Dharma and Dharmata
Skt. Dharma-dharmatā-vibhāga
Tib. ཆོས་དང་ཆོས་ཉིད་
Wyl. chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa
The Sublime Continuum
Skt. Uttaratantra Śāstra
Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་
Wyl. rgyud bla ma

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BDRC.png BDRC Derge Version
Bibliographical Title
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos
Other Title
mahayanottaratantrasastra
Page Numbers
109-148 in Volume 123 of Work W23703
Location
ff. 54v-73r
Authorship
byams pa (author); sajjana (translator); blo ldan shes rab
Tohoku Catalog Num.
4024
Citation
tshul khrims rin chen. "theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos." In bstan 'gyur (sde dge). TBRC W23703. 123: 109 - 148. delhi: delhi karmapae choedhey, gyalwae sungrab partun khang, 1982-1985. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=O1GS6011%7CO1GS601137645$W23703
BDRC.png BDRC Narthang Version
Bibliographical Title
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/
Title Page Title
mahayana uttara tantara sastra
Page Numbers
100-141 in Volume 132 of Work W22704
Location
vol.132,ff.48v-69r (pp.96-137)
Colophon
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/ mgon po byams pas mdzad pa rdzogs so/ /dpal grong khyer dpe med kyi mkhas pa chen po/ bram ze rin chen rdo rje'i dpon po paN+Di ta mkhas pa chen po sa dza na dang / lo tsA ba shAkya'i dge slong blo ldan shes rab kyis/ grong khyer dpe med de nyid du bsgyur pa'o//
gSer bris Catalog Num.
3528
Otani, Beijing Catalog Num.
5525
Citation
"theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/." In bstan 'gyur (snar thang). TBRC W22704. 132: 100 - 141. [narthang]: [s.n.], [1800?]. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=O2DB75712%7CO2DB757122DB79425$W22704
BDRC.png BDRC Chone Version
Bibliographical Title
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/
Other Title
mahayanottaratantrasastra
Page Numbers
109-143 in Volume 123 of Work W1GS66030
Location
ff. 51r-68r
Authorship
byams pa (author); sajjana (translator); blo ldan shes rab
Tohoku Catalog Num.
4024
Citation
grags pa bshad sgrub . "theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/." In bstan 'gyur (co ne). TBRC W1GS66030. 123: 109 - 143. [co ne dgon chen]: [co ne], [1926]. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=O2DB20796%7CO2DB207962DB24440$W1GS66030
BDRC.png BDRC Pe Durma Version
Bibliographical Title
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/
Other Title
mahayanottaratantrasastra
Page Numbers
958-1009 in Volume 70 of Work W1PD95844
Location
pp. 935-986
Authorship
byams pa (author); sajjana (translator); blo ldan shes rab
Tohoku Catalog Num.
4024
BDRC.png BDRC Ser Drima Version
Bibliographical Title
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos
Title Page Title
mahayana uttara tantara sastra
Page Numbers
129-180 in Volume 132
Location
vol.132,ff.64r-89v(pp.127-178)
Colophon
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos/ mgon po byams pas mdzad pa rdzogs so/ /dpal grong khyer dpe med kyi mkhas pa chen po/ bram ze rin chen rdo rje'i dpon po paN+Di ta mkhas pa chen po sa dza na dang / lo tsA ba shAkya'i dge slong blo ldan shes rab kyis/ grong khyer dpe med de nyid du bsgyur pa'o
gSer bris Catalog Num.
3528
Otani, Beijing Catalog Num.
5525
Citation
"theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos." In bstan 'gyur/?gser bris ma/?. TBRC W23702. 132: 129 - 180. tibet: [snar thang], [17-?]. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=O00CR0008%7CO00CR000800CR034422$W23702

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  Tai Situpa on the 3 Most Important Sentences Of All Living Beings

Notes[edit]

  1. Kano, Kazuo, rṄog Blo ldan śes rab's position on the Buddha-nature doctrine and its influence on the early gSaṅ phu tradition. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 32, no. 1-2 (2009) 2010: 249-283.
  2. Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, 2
  3. Ibid.
  4. Kano, RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine, 17
  5. critically edited by Johnston in 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.
  6. Kano, RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga, 17
  7. For a detailed discussion regarding the authorship of the verses and prose, see Kano, RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga; Takasaki, A study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra), being a treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha theory of Mahayana Buddhism
  8. Kano, RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga, 89
  9. Ibid. 90
    (a) Atiśa (982–1054) and Nag-tsho Tshul-khrims-rgyal-ba (1011–1064)
    (b) rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab (1059–1109) and Sajjana (late 11th cent.)
    (c) sPa-tshab Nyi-ma-grags (b.1055)
    (d) Mar-pa Do-pa Chos-kyi-dbang-phyug (1042–1136)
    (e) Jo-nang Lo-tsā-ba Blo-gros-dpal (1299–1353 or 1300–1355)
    (f) Yar-klungs Lo-tsā-ba Grags-pa-rgyal-mtshan (1242–1346)
  10. Translated in Kazuo's Ph.D. dissertation, "rNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine
  11. Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, 3
  12. Burchardi, A Provisional List of Tibetan Commentaries on the Ratnagotravibhāga; Kano, RNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga (See Appendix G)
  13. Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, 3
  14. Ibid., 1
  15. Catalogue information from Phil Stanley and http://web.otani.ac.jp/cri/twrp/tibdate/Peking_online_search.html
  16. Golden Manuscript - Tengyur

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

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

tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt. तथागतगर्भ Tib. དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ Ch. 如来藏

Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt. महायान Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། Ch. 大乘

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

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

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

RGV - Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

neyārtha - Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true. Skt. नेयार्थ Tib. དྲང་དོན་

gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt. महामुद्रा Tib. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།

Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

Cittamātra - Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna. Skt. चित्तमात्र Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་

byams chos sde lnga - This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita. Tib. བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་

dharmatā - The true nature of phenomenal existence. Skt. धर्मता Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་ Ch. 法性

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

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

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

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

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་

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་

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

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་

SUNY - State University of New York

WSTB - Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde - Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien.

Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt. महामुद्रा Tib. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།

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