Rgyud bla ma'i tshig don rnam par 'grel pa
From Buddha-Nature
རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་ཚིག་དོན་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ།
rgyud bla ma'i tshig don rnam par 'grel pa
A Commentary on the Meaning of the Words of the Uttaratantra
Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra
SOURCE TEXT
An early Tibetan commentary on the Uttaratantra, both the śāstra and the vyākhyā, that purports to represent the teachings passed on by the Kashmiri Parahitabhadra to his Tibetan student Marpa, though it is not entirely clear whether this refers to Marpa Dopa or Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, both of whom were important early Kagyu masters and translators that travelled south to receive teachings which they imported and propagated in Tibet. Nevertheless, the text follows more closely Indian commentarial styles and includes typical Mahāmudrā type instructions in its exegesis. Thus it is a prime example of the lineage that descends from Maitrīpa that came to dominate the Kagyu school's approach to the Uttaratantra in later generations.
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Scholarly notes
According to Karl Brunnhölzl, this work has been mistakenly attributed to Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, which is why it is erroneously included in his collected works. Alternatively, he suggests this work be attributed to Marpa Dopa Chökyi Wangchuk, or rather a student of this master that recorded his teachings on the Uttaratantra.
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Text Metadata
| Text exists in | ~ Tibetan |
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| Literary Genre | ~ Commentary on Words - tshig 'grel |
| Commentary of | ~ RKTST 3363 |
