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[[Image:Sakya Pandita.JPG|frame|'''Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen''']]
'''Elucidating the Sage's Intent''' (Tib. ཐུབ་པའི་དགོངས་པ་རབ་ཏུ་གསལ་བ་, ''tubpé gongpa rabtu salwa'', [[Wyl.]] ''thub pa'i dgongs pa rab tu gsal ba'') is [[Sakya Pandita]]'s famous overview of the [[Mahayana]] path structured around a famous passage from [[Maitreya]]'s [[Ornament of Mahayana Sutras]] (19:61-61). Within the Sakya tradition this text functions as a basic introduction to Mahayana.

The only known commentary is by [[Lowo Khenchen]].

==Translations==
*[[Geshe Ngawang Wangyal|Geshe Wangyal]] and Brian Cutillo (trans.) ''Illuminations: A Guide to Essential Buddhist Practices'', Novato: Lotsawa, 1988 (abridged)
* ''Stages of the Buddha's Teachings: Three Key Texts (Library of Tibetan Classics)'', translated by  David P. Jackson, Wisdom Publications, 2015, ISBN  978-0861714490

==Further Reading==
*[[Khenchen Appey Rinpoche]], ''Teachings on Sakya Pandita's Clarifying the Sage's Intent'', Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, 2008
*Jackson, David. 'A Recent Translation of Sa-skya Pandita's Thub pa'i dgongs gsal.' Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 16/17 (1992) pp. 93-100
*Jackson, David. 'Commentaries on the Writings of Sa-skya Pandita', The Tibet Journal, vol. 8, no. 3 (autumn 1983), pp. 3-23.
*Jackson, David. 'The bsTan rim ("Stages of the Doctrine") and Similar Graded Expositions of the Bodhisattva's Path' in Cabezón and Jackson, ed., ''Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre'', Snow Lion, 1996 
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==External Links==
*[http://www.gyalyongsachen.com/?p=3342 Tibetan Text at GyalongSachen.com]