Satyadvayāvatāra
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Satyadvayāvatāra (T. bden pa gnyis la 'jug pa བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ལ་འཇུག་པ་).[1] "Entry to the Two Realities". A treatise on the two truths (satyadvaya) composed by Atisha and translated into Tibetan.
Tibetan commentary
A brief commentary to the Satyadvayāvatāra composed in Tibet "provides important insight into how late eleventh century or early twelfth centuries Tibetan followers of Atiśa understood the tenets of Buddhist philosophy, the nature of valid cognition (tshad ma), and the importance of spiritual authority."[2]
English translation
- Lindtner, Ch. (1981). Atiśa’s Introduction to the Two Truths and its sources. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 9, 161–214.
Notes
- ↑
བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Apple, J. B. (2013). An Early Tibetan Commentary on Atiśa’s “Satyadvayāvatāra.” Journal of Indian Philosophy, 41(3), 263–329. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23497722
