De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa'i bstan bcos mchan can

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་གཏན་ལ་དབབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མཆན་ཅན།

de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa'i bstan bcos mchan can

Treatise on Pointing Out the Tathāgata Heart Together with Annotations

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This work is an edition of the Third Karmapa's Treatise on Pointing Out the Tathāgata Heart (De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos) embellished with interlinear annotations by the Fifth Shamarpa.

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Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje

Fifth Shamarpa Könchok Yenlak

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Schaeffer, K.: The Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood

This thesis includes a translation of The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje's work on Tathāgatagarbha, the Pronouncement on the Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood (De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa) along with notes from the Fifth Shamar, Kongchog Yenlag (1525-1583). Kurtis Schaeffer analyzes the thought and language of the text and presents the key points cogently. Also included is a diplomatic edition of the Tibetan text in Wylie along with seven appendixes, including Jamgon Kongtrul's outline of Rangjung Dorje's text, a song on buddha-nature, and information from the Zab mo nang don related to the heart of Buddhahood.

Schaeffer, Kurtis R. "The Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood: A Study and Translation of The Third Karma pa Rang byung rdo rje's Work on Tathāgatagarbha, The De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa." MA thesis, University of Washington, 1995.

Schaeffer, Kurtis R. "The Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood: A Study and Translation of The Third Karma pa Rang byung rdo rje's Work on Tathāgatagarbha, The De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa." MA thesis, University of Washington, 1995.;The Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood;Karmapa, 3rd;De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po bstan pa'i bstan bcos;Karma Kagyu;Kurtis Schaeffer; The Enlightened Heart of Buddhahood: A Study and Translation of The Third Karma pa Rang byung rdo rje's Work on Tathāgatagarbha, The De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po gtan la dbab pa

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