Distinguishing Dharma and Dharmata

Distinguishing Dharma and Dharmata (Skt. Dharma-dharmatā-vibhaṅga; Tib. ཆོས་ཆོས་ཉིད་རྣམ་འབྱེད་, Chö Dang Chönyi Nampar Chepa, Wyl. chos dang chos nyid rnam 'byed; Trad. Chin. 辨法法性論) — one of the five treatises of Maitreya. It is included among the so-called "Thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.

Tibetan Text

• ཆོས་དང་ཆོས་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ་, chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa, dharma dharmata vibhanga

Commentaries

• Mipham Rinpoche
• Khenpo Shenga

English Translations & Commentaries

• Ju Mipham, Maitreya's Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being: Commentary by Mipham (Snow Lion, 2004)
• Jamgon Mipham and Maitreya, Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature—Maitreya's Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, translated by Dharmachakra Translation Committee (Shambhala, 2013)

Further Reading

• Raymond E. Robertson, A Study of the Dharmadharmatavibhanga, Monograph Series in Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, 2008