Texts/Mahāyānottaratantraśāstraṭippaṇī

महायानोत्तरतन्त्रशास्त्रटिप्पणी

Mahāyānottaratantraśāstraṭippaṇī

རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་ཚིག་དོན་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་

rgyud bla ma'i tshig don rnam par 'grel pa

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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One of only two extant Sanskrit commentaries to the Uttaratantra, the other being the pith instruction composed by Sajjana. However, this work seems to have not been translated into Tibetan and thus it had little, if any, influence on the development of the Tibetan exegesis of the Uttaratantra.

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Scholarly notes

Only two works are by now known to us as Indian commentaries on the RGV/RGVV. One is by Sajjana and the other is the Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī (abbr. Ṭippaṇī) composed by Vairocanarakṣita (11/12th cent.). Vairocanarakṣita composed six commentarial works relating Yogācāra texts, which were reported by Gokhale. According to Gustav Roth, Gokhale tried to edit these works, but in the end, he did not publish it.

      Nakamura (1985) published an edition of the Ṭippaṇī (fols. 9v2–14v7), but leaves the remaining portion (fol. 15r1–17r5) unedited. A full transcription of the work (fols. 9v2–17r5) was done by Jagdishwar Pandey, which is, however, not published. Considering to some shared errors by Nakamura and Pandey, Nakamura followed Pandey's transcription. Unfortunately, both edition and transcription contain a number of mistakes, which can be corrected based on the readings in the original palm-leaf manuscript (I provide a list of “Correction to Nakamura's edition of the Ṭippaṇī” below).

- Kano, Kazuo. ″Rngog Blo-ldan Shes-rab’s Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha-Nature Doctrine.″ 2006, p. 536.

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Ngok Tradition - Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. རྔོག་ལུགས་