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Uttaratantra Shastra (Skt. Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra; Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཆོས་, Gyü Lama; Wyl. theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos), Treatise on the Sublime Continuum or the Ratnagotravibhaga. One of the Five Treatises of Maitreya, a commentary on the teachings of the third turning of the wheel of Dharma explaining buddha nature. It was first translated into Tibetan by Ngok Loden Sherab and the Kashmiri pandita Sajjana.

Outline

The text has seven vajra points. These points come within the five chapters:

The Tathagatagarbha
Awakening/Enlightenment (bodhi)
Enlightened Qualities
The Activity of the Tathagatas
Benefits of the Text

Commentaries

In Sanskrit

Asanga, Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā

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In Tibetan

Rongtön Sheja Kunrig, ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པ་, theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs par bshad pa (currently being translated by John Whitney Pettit for the Library of Tibetan Classics series)
Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན་མངོན་སུམ་ལམ་གྱི་བཤད་སྲོལ་དང་སྦྱར་བའི་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ་སེང་གེའི་ང་རོ་, theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos snying po'i don mngon sum lam gyi bshad srol dang sbyar ba'i rnam par 'grel pa phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro (translated by Fuchs, see below)
Mipham Rinpoche, རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་མི་ཕམ་ཞལ་ལུང་, rgyud bla ma'i mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung (currently being translated by John Canti of the Padmakara Translation Group for the Tsadra Foundation)

Translations

In English

Buddha-Nature, Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra by Arya Maitreya with commentary by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, edited by Alex Trisoglio, Khyentse Foundation, 2007. A free copy can be requested online at siddharthasintent.org.
Buddha Nature (with Jamgön Kongtrul's commentary) translated by Rosemarie Fuchs, Snow Lion, New York 2000
The Changeless Nature, translated by Ken and Katia Holmes, Karma Kagyu Trust, Newcastle 1985
Uttaratantra-shastra (rgyud bla ma), Maitreya – Asanga with commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara translation group, forthcoming

In French

Traité de la Continuité ultime du Grand Véhicule de Maitreya, avec le commentaire de Jamgœun Kongtrul Rimpoché, L'Inéluctable Rugissement du lion (trad. Etienne Loyon); including commentary by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. All accessible on line here!

Teachings on the Uttaratantra Shastra Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Rigpa Shedra, Lerab Ling, 2002
Khenpo Dawa Paljor, Rigpa Shedra, Pharping, 2009 (available here)
Dr Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Rigpa Shedra, Pharping, 15 February 2009 Audio here

External Links

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-'''Uttaratantra Shastra''' (Skt. ''Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra''; Tib. ''Gyü Lama''; [[Wyl.]] ''theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos''), ''Treatise on the Sublime Continuum'' or the '''Ratnagotravibhaga'''. One of the [[Five Treatises of Maitreya]], a commentary on the teachings of the third turning of the wheel of Dharma explaining [[buddha nature]]. It was first translated into Tibetan by [[Ngok Loden Sherab]] and the Kashmiri pandita Sajjana.
+'''Uttaratantra Shastra''' (Skt. ''Mahāyānottaratantra Śāstra''; Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཆོས་, ''Gyü Lama''; [[Wyl.]] ''theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos''), ''Treatise on the Sublime Continuum'' or the '''Ratnagotravibhaga'''. One of the [[Five Treatises of Maitreya]], a commentary on the teachings of the third turning of the wheel of Dharma explaining [[buddha nature]]. It was first translated into Tibetan by [[Ngok Loden Sherab]] and the Kashmiri pandita Sajjana.
 ==Outline==
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 ===In Sanskrit===
 *[[Asanga]], ''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā''
+{{Tibetan}}
 ===In Tibetan===
-*[[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]], ''theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs par bshad pa'' (currently being translated by John Whitney Pettit for the Library of Tibetan Classics series)
+*[[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]], {{TBRCW|O01PD3|O01GSrongstond1e4222$W28942|<big>ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པ་</big>, ''theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs par bshad pa''}} (currently being translated by John Whitney Pettit for the Library of Tibetan Classics series)
-*[[Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé]], ''theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos snying po'i don mngon sum lam gyi bshad srol dang sbyar ba'i rnam par 'grel pa phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro'' (translated by Fuchs, see below)
+*[[Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé]], {{TBRC|W21961|<big>ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན་མངོན་སུམ་ལམ་གྱི་བཤད་སྲོལ་དང་སྦྱར་བའི་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ་སེང་གེའི་ང་རོ་</big>, ''theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos snying po'i don mngon sum lam gyi bshad srol dang sbyar ba'i rnam par 'grel pa phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro''}} (translated by Fuchs, see below)
-*[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''rgyud bla ma'i mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung'' (currently being translated by John Canti of the Padmakara Translation Group for the Tsadra Foundation)
+*[[Mipham Rinpoche]],  {{TBRCW|O1PD45159|O1PD451591PD451722DB633862DB63387$W2DB16631|<big>རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་མི་ཕམ་ཞལ་ལུང་</big>, ''rgyud bla ma'i mchan 'grel mi pham zhal lung''}} (currently being translated by John Canti of the Padmakara Translation Group for the Tsadra Foundation)
 ==Translations==