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- People/Red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros + ( *"As for whether the ''Uttaratantra'' is … </br>*"As for whether the ''Uttaratantra'' is definitive or provisional, Rendawa does not explicitly identify it either as definitive or provisional in the texts that I have consulted. However, Khedrup, a student and a junior contemporary of Rendawa, mentions in his ''Presentation of the General Tantric Systems'' (''rgyud sde spyi rnam''), "Lama Jé [that is, Rendawa] asserts that the ''Uttaratantra'' is a commentarial work on last-wheel teachings, explicating the view of the Cittamātra School." [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 88.</br>*Though Rendawa's personal view is explained by Wangchuk as, "Rendawa argues that only Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka system presents the correct ultimate view, not Asanga's Cittamātra School." [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 87.</br>*However there is a possibility that he had a change of heart later in life, as Wangchuk sites the ''Blue Annals'' as stating, "The Venerable Red-mda'-pa believed at first the ''Uttaratantra'' to be a Vijñānamātra work, and even composed a commentary from the standpoint of the followers of the Vijñānamātra school. Later, when he became a hermit, he used to sing: "It is impossible to differentiate between the presence and absence of this our Mind. The Buddha having perceived that it penetrated all living beings, as in the example of a subterranean treasure, or the womb of a pregnant woman, had proclaimed all living beings to be possessed of the Essence of the Sugata." [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 88.</br>atantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 88. )
