Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs bshad nyi ma'i 'od zer

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ལེགས་བཤད་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར།

theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs bshad nyi ma'i 'od zer

The Sunlight Exposition: A Commentary on the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra Treatise

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

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Dölpopa's commentary on the Uttaratantra, which, although it doesn't actually use the term "other-emptiness", is an important precursor and source to the formulation of his unique Zhentong view found in his seminal work Mountain Dharma: An Ocean of Definitive Meaning (ri chos nges don rgya mtsho).

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Dolpopa's commentary on the Uttaratantra, which is one of the major sources for the presentation of his unique Zhentong view.

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Other Titles	~ theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos 'grel pa legs bshad nyi ma'i 'od zer ~ rgyud bla ma'i 'grel pa legs bshad nyi ma'i 'od zer
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Literary Genre	~ Commentaries - 'grel pa
Commentary of	~ RKTST 3363

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

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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

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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་

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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་

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