Elucidating the Sage's Intent

Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen

Elucidating the Sage's Intent (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). The only known commentary is by Lowo Khenchen.

Translations

• Geshe Wangyal and Brian Cutillo (trans.) Illuminations: A Guide to Essential Buddhist Practices, Novato: Lotsawa, 1988 (abridged)

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