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From Buddha-Nature
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Key book in the field on the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra from a German scholar. +
A collection of essays and translations featuring advice and instructions of prominent 18-19th century Tibetan masters. Chapter 12 contains a translation of Jamgön Kongtrul's ''Immaculate Light Rays of the Vajra Moon: Instructions in the View of the Middle Way of Qualified Emptiness''. +
An historical survey of buddha-nature +
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A collection of influential Tibetan texts on Buddha-Nature and the Gyü Lama (Uttaratantra) treatise. +
This work is the first written by a Western scholar about buddha-nature +
A blog post on buddha-nature by a contemporary American teacher. +
One of the more often read and popular translations that includes commentary from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso along with Jamgon Kongtrul's main commentary on the Uttaratantrashastra. +
Kano's book is an essential work on buddha-nature textual studies in Tibetan traditions. +
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A collection of essays from a seminal writer and researcher of buddha-nature and tathagatagarbha doctrine. +
A section of this book (pages 245-249) discusses a quote from the Uttaratantra itself, verse I.35, which is used by Jamgon Kongtrul to describe the fruition of the paths and describes the four perfections or qualities that are shared by each of the three kayas, which also have five defining characteristics, also discussed briefly in this text. The perfections are supreme purity, unity/self/identity, bliss, and permanence. +
contains a comparison between Ngok and Tsen on the topic of buddha-nature, pp. 42-44. +
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An argument against buddha-nature from a prominent contemporary Theravada teacher +
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Due to its content it was one of the only works attributed to Nāgārjuna that is consistently cited in support of buddha-nature theory by Tibetan authors. +
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Chapter Eight: Immanent Wisdom addresses the theme of buddha-nature in Mipam's writings +
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This two-volume manuscript presents complex philosophical discourses from "post-classical" Kagyu writers and includes extensive discussion of the concept of buddha-nature. For instance, "Some Criticisms of Shākya mchog ldan’s Buddha Nature Epistemology" (page 111), andthere is a section entitled "Critique of 'Gos lo tsa ba's Separation of Buddhahood and Buddha Nature" (page 105), which includes a translation and discussion of a section of a text by the Eighth Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje, in which he disagrees with the characterization of the relationship between sentient beings and buddhas by Go Lotsawa and Rangjung Dorje. +
In presenting a "comprehensive overview of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Mipam’s work on emptiness and Buddha-nature," Douglas Duckworth is providing us with a key perspective on buddha-nature from the Nyingma tradition, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. +
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The first chapter is a commentary by modern Tibetan master Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on buddha-nature, as presented by Gampopa in the Jewel Ornament of Liberation. +
This is an important commentary on the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'' for the Sakya tradition. +
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Articles/Reclaiming Faith: An Interview with Vipassana Teacher Sharon Salzberg and An Excerpt from Her New Book, Faith +
A teaching on faith by a contemporary American teacher +
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This text consists of a 1996 interview that Dr. Peter Michel conducted with the Dalai Lama in German and was translated into English later. It should be read with the understanding that this may be incorrect translation and should not be viewed as the Dalai Lama's actual thoughts no the subject. +
