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Topics/The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism
Indian texts, (2) provide a sketch of the transmission of the five works of Maitreya from India to Tibet and the beginning of a Tibetan gzhan stong tradition

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Topics/Buddha-nature as Emptiness
Karl Brunnhölzl is one of the most prolific translators of Tibetan texts into English and has worked on all of the Five Treatises of Maitreya. He was originally

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Key Terms/dharmakāya
He is the Chair of Mind and Life Institute, founder of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, and an adjunct professor at the School of Religious Studies

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People/Dol po pa (category Classical Tibetan Authors) (section On the topic of this person)
text on the nature of reality. The author, Dol-bo-ba Shay-rap-gyel-tsen was one of the most influential figures of that dynamic period of doctrinal formulation

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Books/History of Buddhism (Chos-hbyung), Part 1
systematical catalogue of works, authors and translators of all the literature contained in the Kanjur and Tanjur collections. The first part is of an overwhelming

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Key Terms/Geluk
Exegesis of Ornament of Realization called the Ornament of Essence by Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen and the writings of Tsongkhapa, including Golden Rosary of Elegant

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Topics/The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism
Light A translation of the classic Denkoroku by one of the premier translators of Buddhist and Taoist texts illustrates how to arrive at the epiphanic Zen awakening

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Topics/Sentient beings
Karl Brunnhölzl is one of the most prolific translators of Tibetan texts into English and has worked on all of the Five Treatises of Maitreya. He was originally

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Key Terms/Kagyu
formulation of buddha-nature through 15 distinct points 3. The practical application of buddha-nature. Khenpo skips the detailed listing of the works on buddha-nature

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Texts/Mahāyānottaratantraśāstropadeśa (redirect from Pith Instructions on "The Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna") (section Philosophical positions of this text)
regarding difficult points of the text and English proof-reading of my translation. Kano, Kazuo. "Mahāyānottaratantraśāstropadeśa of Sajjana: An Annotated Translation

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Topics/Meditation
influence of Asanga and Vasubandhu. The Sūtra of the Unveiling of the Profound Meaning emphasizes the role of consciousness in the genesis of illusion and

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Texts/Shōbōgenzō (redirect from Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) (section Philosophical positions of this text)
passages of the few fascicles pertinent for explicit philosophical reading. At the risk of oversimplifying, the philosophical reception of Dōgen's works is almost

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Articles/On the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna
Awakening of Faith, see Vorenkamp, An English Translation of Fa-tsang's Commentary on the Awakening of Faith. Fazang conceived the summary of the text into

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Texts/Śrīmālādevīsūtra (redirect from Lion’s Roar of Śrīmālādevī Sūtra) (section Philosophical positions of this text)
Furthermore, the crucial notion of "the ground of the latent tendencies of ignorance" as the basis and sum of all obscurations of the tathāgata heart is used

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Key Terms/byams chos sde lnga (redirect from Dharma works of Maitreya)
Uttaratantra in Relation to the Other Works of Maitreya Canti, John. "On the Uttaratantra in Relation to the Other Works of Maitreya." Conversations on Buddha-Nature

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Articles/Outline of Western Scholarship on Buddha-Nature
Studies was one of the earliest introductions of Zen Buddhism to English readers and gave a decidedly Yogācāra presentation of the Mahāyāna and of tathāgatagarbha

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Texts/Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
deprecates the comparative value of the veneration of the buddhas. As an illustration of the power of the text, there follows a story of a past buddha, Sadāpramutkaraśmi

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Key Terms/Yogācāra
Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-Pham (mi pham rgya mtsho)." PhD Diss, University of Virginia, 2005.;Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence

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Topics/Contemporary
Buddhist views of the same. Our two worlds of discourse about the value and meaning of finite bodily existence, the course of history, the meaning of suffering

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Discover
in their promotion of Buddhism, most notably Paul Carus, the author of The Gospel of the Buddha, and Dwight Goddard, the author of The Buddhist Bible.

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People/Stcherbatsky, T.
systematical catalogue of works, authors and translators of all the literature contained in the Kanjur and Tanjur collections. The first part is of an overwhelming

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Articles/A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism-Review by de Jong
Painted Scrolls, I (Roma, 1949), p. 119: A Catalogue of the Tohoku University Collection of Tibetan Works on Buddhism (Sendai, 1953), No. 5434. Ogawa Ichijō

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Library/Books
Indian texts, (2) provide a sketch of the transmission of the five works of Maitreya from India to Tibet and the beginning of a Tibetan gzhan stong tradition

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The Bibliography
Nature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. Kramer, Ralf. The Great Tibetan Translator: Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059–1109)

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Recent Essays (redirect from Topic of the week) (section Mipam's Doxographical Classification of Maitreya's Works)
brief overview of the five works of Maitreya and the doxographical affiliation of their content. As he starts his exegesis on the topic of buddha-nature

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Books/Luminous Heart (section The Major Yogācāra Masters and Their Works)
the eye of intelligence of those without bias. While the stream of the Narmadā river of virtue Washes away the stains of the mind, With the waves of the virtues

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Library
experience of spiritual insight and grace which any one of them may describe and elucidate. Some of these expediences are of highest value, some of less value

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Library/Dissertations
way than the idea of all-pervasiveness of the Dao. A historical, doctrinal investigation of the intellectual formation of the concept of buddha-nature in

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TOC Search
Gorampa's Outline of A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes273 Appendix B: Transliteration of the Tibetan Text of A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes277

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Library/Secondary Sources
(Garland of Flowers: A Catalogue to Rong-zom's Collected Works), and prepared a detailed catalogue of Rongzom-pa's three-volume collected works.3 In his

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Thupten Jinpa: Emptiness and Buddha-Nature: A Creative Tension Between Two Fundamental Concepts of Mahayana Thought
Buddha in the Land of Snows The new standard work and definitive biography of Tsongkhapa, one of the principle founders of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism–the

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Research
experience of spiritual insight and grace which any one of them may describe and elucidate. Some of these expediences are of highest value, some of less value

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and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-pham Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-pham Dissertation

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