The Bibliography

Selected Bibliography & Resources

This is a selected bibliography of academic and related references on the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra and its commentaries. For the relevant Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese texts, see the Primary Sources List.

Books

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• Bernert, Christian, trans. Perfect or perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature: A Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga (v v.1.27-95[a]). Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2018.
• Brown, Brian Edward. The Buddha Nature: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha and Ālayavijñāna. Buddhist Tradition Series, 11. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1991. Reprint 1994.
• Brunnhölzl, Karl, ed., trans. Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature. Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2008.
• Brunnhölzl, Karl, ed., trans. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
• Coleman, James William. The Buddha's Dream of Liberation: Freedom, Emptiness, and Awakened Nature. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
• Dalai Lama, 14th. The Buddha Nature: Death and Eternal Soul in Buddhism. Woodside, CA: Bluestar Communications, 1997.
• Duckworth, Douglas S. Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. Buddha-Nature: Mahayana-Uttaratantra-Shastra (Khyentse Commentary), by Arya Maitreya. Edited by Alex Trisoglio. Khyentse Foundation, 2007.
• Fuchs, Rosemarie. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.
• Griffiths, P. J. and J. P. Keenan, eds. Buddha Nature: A Festschrift in Honor of Minoru Kiyota. San Francisco and Tokyo: Buddhist Books International, 1990.
• Guenther, Herbert V. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation. Boston: Shambala Publications, 1971. Reprint of 1959, Rider & Co., London.
• Guenther, Herbert V. From Reductionism to Creativity. Boston: Shambala Publications, 1989.
• Prasad, H. S., ed. The Uttaratantra of Maitreya, containing E.H. Johnson's Sanskrit text and E. Obermiller's English translation. Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica, 79. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1991.
• Holmes, Ken and Katia Holmes. Maitreya on Buddha Nature: A New Translation of Asaṅga's mahāyāna uttara tantra śāstra. Forres: Altea, 1999.
• Holmes, Ken and Katia Holmes, trans. The Changeless Nature. Newcastle: Karma Kagyu Trust, 1985.
• Holmes, Ken, trans. Ornament of Precious Liberation. Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
• Hookham, S. K. The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine According to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Hopkins, Jeffrey, trans., intro. Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix, by Döl-bo-ba Shay-rab-gyel-tsen (Dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan). Edited by Kevin Vose. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2006.
• Kano, Kazuo. Buddha-Nature and Emptiness: rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab and A Transmission of the Ratnagotravibhāga from India to Tibet. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 91. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien: 2016.
• Komarovski, Yaroslav. Visions of Unity: The Golden Paṇḍita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
• King, Sallie B. Buddha Nature. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1991.
• Kramer, Ralf. The Great Tibetan Translator: Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059–1109). Collectanea Himalayica. München: Indus Verlag, 2007.
• Loden, Geshe Acharya Thubten. Fundamental Potential for Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism. Melbourne: Tushita Publications, 1996.
• Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. 'Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal's Commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā, edited text in Tibetan script. Nepal Research Centre Publications 24, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2003. Reviewed by Pascale Hugon in Asiatische Studien, vol. 60, no. 1 (2006), pp. 246-253.
• Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. A Direct Path to the Buddha Within. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2008.
• Mipham ('jam mgon 'ju mi pham rgya mtsho). A Commentary on the Uttaratantra Shastra (rgyud bla ma) by Maitreya – Asanga. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group, John Canti, forthcoming.
• Nakamura, Zuiryū. Study of the Ratnagotra-uttaratantra. Tokyo: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1967.
• Rinchen, Geshe Sonam. Buddha Nature (Geshe Sonam Rinchen). New Delhi: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 2003.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort. Buddha-nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective: On the Transmission and Reception of Buddhism in India and Tibet. Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion. RoutledgeCurzon, 1989.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort. La théorie du Tathāgatagarbha et du Gotra; études sur la sotériologie et la gnoséologie du bouddhisme. Paris: École Française d'Extrême Orient, 1969.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort and Bu-ston Rin-chen-grub. Le Traité du Tathāgatagarbha de Bu ston Rin chen grub. Paris: École Française d'Extrême Orient, 1973.
• Ruegg, David Seyfort. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Thought Part 1: Three Studies in the History of Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Philosophy. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 50. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2000.
• Schmithausen, Lambert. Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees. Lumbini, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2009.
• Sebastian, C. D. Metaphysics and Mysticism in Mahāyāna Buddhism: An Analytical Study of the Ratnagotravibhāga-Mahāyānottaratantra-śāstraṃ. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 2005.
• Stambaugh, Joan. Impermanence is Buddha-Nature: Dōgen's Understanding of Temporality. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
• Stearns, Cyrus. The Buddha from Dölpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. Tsadra Foundation Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2010.
• Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
• Takasaki, Jikido. Collected Papers on the Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2014.
• Thrangu Rinpoche. Buddha Nature: Ten Teachings on the Uttaratantra Shastra, by Arya Maitreya, Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang. Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1993, 1988.
• Thrangu Rinpoche. The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature, translated by Ken Holmes and Katia Holmes, edited by Clark Johnson. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 2001.
• Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.
• Zasep Tulku Rinpoche. Buddha-Nature: The Mahayana Uttara Tantra Shastra: Maitreya's Root Text and Asanga's Commentary, based on a translation by Obermiller, E. Vancouver: Zuru Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre, 2001.
• Zimmermann, Michael. A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra: The Earliest Exposition of the Buddha-Nature Teachings in India. Biblotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica VI, Tokyo: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University. 2002.

Book Chapters

Research/Secondary Sources/Book Chapters

• Chen, Shuman. “Buddha-Nature of Insentient Beings.” In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 218-212. Springer, 2nd ed., vol. 1, 2014.
• Burchardi, Anne. "Towards an understanding of Tathāgatagarbha interpretation in Tibet with special reference to the Ratnagotravibhāga." In Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet, PIATS, 2000, 59-77. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
• Duckworth, Douglas. "Buddha-Nature and the Logic of Pantheism." In The Buddhist World, edited by John Powers, 235-247. Abingdon, Oxon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
• Gokhale, V. V. "A Note on Ratnagotravibhāga I.52 + Bhagavadgītā XIII.32." In Studies in Indology and Buddhology Presented in Honour of Professor Susumu Yamaguchi on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, 90-91. Kyoto: Hozokan, 1955.
• Goswami, S.C. "The monistic absolute of the Uttaratantra and modern science", Philosophy, Grammar and Indology: Essays in Honour of Prof. Gustav Roth, 275-282. Edited by Hari Shankar Prasad. Delhi 1992.
• Grosnick, William H. "The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra." In Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald Lopez, 92-106. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Kano, Kazuo. "Rngog Blo ldan shes rab's Topical Outline of the Ranagotravibhāga Discovered at Khara Khoto." In Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, PIATS, Königswinter, 2006. Saale: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2008.
• Müller, Ralf. Philosophy and the Practice of Reflexivity. On Dogen's Discourse about Buddha-nature. In "What is philosophy?", edited by Raji Steineck et. al., Leiden: Brill, 2016.
• Park, Jin. "The Wön Buddhist Practice of the Buddha-Nature." In Religions of Korea in Practice, edited by Robert E. Bushwell, Jr., 476-486. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Swanson, Paul L. “T'ien-t'ai Chih'i's Concept of Threefold Buddha Nature-A Synergy of Reality, Wisdom, and Practice.” In Buddha Nature: A Festschrift in Honor of Minoru Kiyota, edited by Paul J. Griffiths and John P. Keenan, 171-180. Buddhist Books International, 1997.
• Takasaki, J. "Tathagatagarbha and the community of bodhisattvas", in Kalyana-mitta. Professor H. Nakamura Felicitation Volume (ed. V.N. Jha), 247-256. Delhi, 1991.
• Zimmerman, Michael. “The Process of Awakening in Early Texts on Buddha-Nature in India.” In A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism, edited by Lin, Chen-kuo and Radich, Michael, 513–528. Hamburg Buddhist Studies, 3. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2014.

Book Reviews

Research/Secondary Sources/Book Reviews

• Lusthaus, Dan. Review of Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen's Understanding of Temporailty, by Joan Stambaugh. Chanoyu Quarterly: Tea and the Arts of Japan 69: 69-72.
• Sur, Dominic. Review of The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, by Tsering Wangchuk, Reading Religion, August 9, 2017, http://readingreligion.org/books/uttaratantra-land-snows.

Dissertations

Research/Secondary Sources/Dissertations

• Bernert, Christian. "Rong-ston on Buddha-Nature: A Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga." Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2009.
• Duckworth, Douglas. "Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-Pham." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2005.
• Germano, David Francis. "Poetic Thought, the Intelligent Universe, and the Mystery of Self: The Tantric Synthesis of rDzogs Chen in Fourteenth Century Tibet." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.
• Jiang, Bo. "Cataphatic Emptiness: rGyal-tshab on the Buddha-essence Theory of Asaṅga's Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2008.
• Jorden, Ngawang. "Buddha-Nature: Through the Eyes of Go rams pa Bsod nams seng ge in Fifteenth-Century Tibet." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2003.
• Kano, Kazuo. "Chibeto ni okeru hōshōron no juyō to tenkai" (On the Acceptance and Development of the Ratnagotravibhāga in Tibet). Master's thesis, University of Kyoto, 2001.
• Kano, Kazuo. "rNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine." PhD diss., University of Hamburg, 2006.
• Khosla, Usha. "Study of the Tathagatagarbha as True Self and the True Selves of the Brahmanic, Sankhya and Jaina Traditions." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2015.
• Miller, Adam Tyler. "The Buddha said that Buddha said so: a translation and analysis of "Pūrvayogaparivarta" from the Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī Sūtra.." PhD diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2013.
• Schaeffer, Kurtis. "The Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood: A Study and Translation of the Third Karma pa Rang byung rdo rje's Work on Tathāgatagarbha, The Bde bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa." Master's thesis, University of Washington, 1995.
• Shu-Hui, Jennifer Chen. "Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in Light of the Bodhisattva Practices." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998.
• Turenne, Philippe. "Interpretations of Unity: Hermeneutics in Śākya mchog ldan's Interpretation of the Five Treatises of Maitreya." PhD diss., McGill University, 2010.
• Wangchuk, Tsering. "The Uttaratantra in the Age of Argumentation - Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen and his Fourteenth-Century Interlocutors on Buddha-Lineage." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

Journal Articles

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Papers Presented at Conferences

Research/Secondary Sources/Paper Presentations

• Gilks, Peter. "Śākya mchog-ldan on ''gotra'' in Yogācāra and Madhyamaka." Paper presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vienna, August 2014.

Online and Digitial Publications

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• Gyatso, Tenzin (discourse, 1982) & Berzin, Alexander (translation and transcription, 2008). "Buddha-Nature, Day One of a Discourse on 'Uttaratantra'; Part Two: The First Three Verses of Chapter One." Discourse by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Bodh Gaya, India, January 17, 1982. Translated by Alexander Berzin and revised, January 2008. Source: [1]
• Martin, Dan. Selected Entries from Tibskrit 2011
• Sarlat, Stephen L., trans. Traité de la Continuité ultime du Grand Véhicule de Maitreya, avec le commentaire de Jamgœun Kongtrul Rimpoché, L'Inéluctable Rugissement du lion. With Commentary by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. 2007. Source: [2]

Audio

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• Khenpo Namdrol 2008 Teachings on Buddha Nature. Translated from the Tibetan by Gavin Kilty.
• Mathes teaching the Uttaratantrashastra at Rigpa Shedra East 2009 - Klaus-Dieter Mathes.
• Duckworth, Douglas. "Buddha Nature in Tibet: Transformation of the Ground." Rangjung Yeshe Institute, SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/rangjung-yeshe-institute/dr-douglas-duckworth-buddha-nature-in-tibet-transformations-of-the-ground.

Visual Resources

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English visual outline of Arya Maitreya's Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra and its commentary The Unassailable Lion's Roar by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

Links

• Rigpa Shedra notes on the Uttaratantra
• Traité de la Continuité ultime du Grand Véhicule
• A brief outline of the Uttaratantra Shastra according to commentaries given by Jamgon Kongtrul, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche amd Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
• Shedra 2009 Teachings on Mipham Rinpoche's commentary on the Uttaratantra Shastra

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

An important sūtra source for the Ratnagotravibhāga, particularly for its discussion of the nine examples that illustrate how all sentient beings possess buddha-nature.

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

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