As the commentary to the ''Uttaratantra'' this is a crucial source text on the topic of buddha-nature.
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In the Tibetan tradition, which parses out the root verses and refers to that as the treatise (''bstan bcos'', ''śāstra''), this title references the full text complete with the root verses and the accompanying prose commentary (''rnam par bshad pa'', ''vyākhyā''). While the earlier Chinese tradition attributes authorship of both aspects of the text to the as of yet still mysterious figure of Sāramati, the Tibetan tradition attributes the treatise to the Bodhisattva Maitreya and this commentary to the illustrious founder of the Yogācāra school, Asaṅga. However, unlike the Chinese tradition which delineates different aspects of the text into the basic verses, the commentarial verses, and the prose commentary, the Tibetan tradition actually preserves two separate versions of the text we know as the ''Ratnagotravibhāga''. The first, made up entirely of the so-called root verses, corresponds to the Sanskrit title ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'', though it is usually referenced in this tradition by the Tibetan equivalent of the latter subtitle, ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos'', which is commonly rendered into English as the ''Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Great Vehicle'' and is abbreviated as RGV. However, the full title, ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos dkon mchog gi rigs rnam par dbye ba'', does appear at the end of each chapter of the canonical Tibetan recensions. Nevertheless, this version is likely a Tibetan redaction, in that thus far there is no evidence of a Sanskrit version written entirely in verse that excludes the commentarial sections that explain them. The second, which combines the verses with their accompanying prose commentary, corresponds to the *''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'' as it has become known in academic circles where it is referenced with the abbreviation RGVV. However, in Tibetan the subtitle is merely appended with the equivalent of ''vyākhyā'', i.e. ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa'', and thus a translation of the Tibetan title of the complete text would be something akin to the ''Explanatory Commentary on the Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Great Vehicle''. However, the extant Sanskrit recension of the ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'' directly corresponds to the Tibetan version known as the ''*Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'', in that it contains both the root verses and the prose commentary. Though, again, lacking a Sanskrit work entitled the ''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'', we can surmise that its corresponding Tibetan title was likely manufactured in order to delineate it from the streamlined verse redaction, while the Sanskrit title ''*Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'' was in turn a product of modern scholars. On the surface it would seem that this title is a combination of the Chinese title back translated into Sanskrit as the ''Ratnagotraśāstra'' and the one found in the Tibetan editions, which state the Sanskrit title as the ''Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhya''. Nevertheless, in terms of content, the Sanskrit RGV corresponds to the Tibetan RGVV, in that the ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'' is the same text as ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa''. Also, see the Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra and for a recent essay on the text: On the Ratnagotravibhāga by Alexander Gardner.
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།
The Explanation of The Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna (84000)
Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā;Asaṅga;ཐོགས་མེད་;thogs med;slob dpon thogs med;སློབ་དཔོན་ཐོགས་མེད་;Āryāsaṅga; Sajjana;ས་ཛ་ན་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo chen blo ldan shes rab;blo ldan shes rab;རྔོག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་;ལོ་ཆེན་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;Ngok Lotsāwa;Ngok Loden Sherab;Lochen Loden Sherab;Loden Sherab;theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།;Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā;रत्नगोत्रविभागव्याख्या;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།
In the Tibetan tradition, which parses out the root verses and refers to that as the treatise (''bstan bcos'', ''śāstra''), this title references the full text complete with the root verses and the accompanying prose commentary (''rnam par bshad pa'', ''vyākhyā''). While the earlier Chinese tradition attributes authorship of both aspects of the text to the as of yet still mysterious figure of Sāramati, the Tibetan tradition attributes the treatise to the Bodhisattva Maitreya and this commentary to the illustrious founder of the Yogācāra school, Asaṅga. However, unlike the Chinese tradition which delineates different aspects of the text into the basic verses, the commentarial verses, and the prose commentary, the Tibetan tradition actually preserves two separate versions of the text we know as the ''Ratnagotravibhāga''. The first, made up entirely of the so-called root verses, corresponds to the Sanskrit title ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'', though it is known in this tradition only by the Tibetan equivalent of the latter subtitle, ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos'', which is commonly rendered into English as the ''Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Great Vehicle'' and is abbreviated as RGV. This version is likely a Tibetan redaction, in that thus far there is no evidence of a Sanskrit version written entirely in verse that excludes the commentarial sections that explain them. The second, which combines the verses with their accompanying prose commentary, corresponds to the *''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'' as it has become known in academic circles where it is referenced with the abbreviation RGVV. However, in Tibetan the subtitle is merely appended with the equivalent of ''vyākhyā'', i.e. ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa'', and thus a translation of the Tibetan title of the complete text would be something akin to the ''Explanatory Commentary on the Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Great Vehicle''. However, the extant Sanskrit recension of the ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'' directly corresponds to the Tibetan version known as the ''*Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'', in that it contains both the root verses and the prose commentary. Though, again, lacking a Sanskrit work entitled the ''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'', we can surmise that its corresponding Tibetan title was likely manufactured in order to delineate it from the streamlined verse redaction, while the Sanskrit title ''*Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'' was in turn a product of modern scholars. On the surface it would seem that this title is a combination of the Chinese title back translated into Sanskrit as the ''Ratnagotraśāstra'' and the one found in the Tibetan editions, which state the Sanskrit title as the ''Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhya''. Nevertheless, in terms of content, the Sanskrit RGV corresponds to the Tibetan RGVV, in that the ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'' is the same text as ''Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa''. For more on this issue see below for Karl Brunnhölzl's Description from When the Clouds Part. ￼START_WIDGET"'-e9d1d633315c6a6cEND_WIDGET Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra Root Text ￼START_WIDGET"'-0620ddd55835cfe5END_WIDGET ￼START_WIDGET"'-b1aafaa70c765b6eEND_WIDGET On the Ratnagotravibhāga Recent Essay on Text ￼START_WIDGET"'-c4fa7ab34047d808END_WIDGET
According to the Tibetan tradition this is Asaṅga's commentary to the ''Uttaratantra''.
Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ནི། རྒྱུད་བླ་ཐོགས་འགྲེལ་ཞེས་ཡོངས་སུ་གྲགས་པ་སྟེ། རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྐད་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་རྒྱུད་བླ་ནི་མཛད་པ་པོ་སཱ་ར་མ་ཏི་ཞེས་བཀོད་ཡོད་ཅིང་། བོད་སྐད་ཀྱི་འགྱུར་ལ་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་རྩ་བ་ལ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཞེས་དང་། དེའི་མཛད་པ་པོ་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་དང་། དེ་ཡི་འགྲེལ་པ་རྩ་ཚིགས་དང་སྦྱར་ནས་ཡོད་པ་ནི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཞེས་ཐོགས་མེད་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པར་གྲགས་པ་ཡིན། འོན་ཀྱང་དེང་སང་ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྐད་དུ་མཇལ་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་རིགས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ཞེས་པ་ནི་བོད་སྐད་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་འདི་དང་གཅིག་ཡིན་པས། རྩ་ཚིགས་སྔོན་ནས་བརྩམས་ནས་རྣམ་བཤད་ཕྱིས་སུ་མཛད་པ་ཡིན་མིན་ཐེ་ཚོམ་གྱི་གཞི་རུ་བཟུང་བའང་ཡོད།
theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa;रत्नगोत्रविभागव्याख्या;Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།;Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā;Texts/Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā
Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā;theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos rnam par bshad pa;रत्नगोत्रविभागव्याख्या;Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།
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