Phyag rgya chen po'i man ngag gi bshad sbyar rgyal ba'i gan mdzod

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ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་མན་ངག་གི་བཤད་སྦྱར་རྒྱལ་བའི་གན་མཛོད།
phyag rgya chen po'i man ngag gi bshad sbyar rgyal ba'i gan mdzod
An Exposition of Mahāmudrā: The Treasure Vault of the Victors
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In his exposition of the Mahāmudrā view in the Phyag chen rgyal ba’i gan mdzod, Padma dkar po adopts Yang dgon pa’s famous distinction between the mahāmudrā in the modes of abiding (gnas lugs phyag chen) and error ( ’khrul lugs phyag chen) as an interpretive schema both for [1] clarifying the doctrine of the unity or nonduality of the two truths—which he takes as a central doctrine of the Madhyamaka, Mantrayāna and ’Brug pa Bka’ brgyud traditions—and [2] criticizing the rival Jo nang account of reality which posits the conventional and ultimate as two great kingdoms that have nothing in common. (Source: Mahamudra and the Middle Way - Vol. 2, 157.)

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