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Ratnakirti

Tibetan-preserved works by Ratnakirti on Buddhist doctrine, path structure, and tantric praise.

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Ascertaining Dharmas — RatnakīrtiA comprehensive philosophical treatise ascertaining the nature of dharmas — from the foundations of faith and wisdom, through ethics, karma, and all four Buddhist philosophical schools, to a spirited defense of luminous consciousness against nihilistic Madhyamaka. A new English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D4084).Praise of the Deities of the Four Yogas — RatnakīrtiA devotional praise of the four objects of Buddhist yogic meditation — the Buddha in samādhi, the bodhisattva and arhat assemblies, the Dharmakāya as Prajñāpāramitā, and the Buddha's body adorned with the thirty-two marks and eighty minor signs. Composed by the great Indian paṇḍita Ratnakīrti, translated into Tibetan by the Nepalese Mahāvana. A new English translation from the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur (D1170).The Trunk of Virtue — RatnakīrtiA systematic map of the entire Buddhist path — from the sixteen unwholesome acts and their reversals, through the Four Noble Truths, the ten perfections each in three aspects, a survey of all four philosophical schools, to the bodhisattva's nine minds of compassion. By Ratnakīrti of Vikramaśīla, 11th century.