Ngok Tradition
| Key Term | Ngok Tradition |
|---|---|
| Topic Variation | Analytic Tradition |
| Hover Popup Choices | Ngok Tradition; Analytic Tradition; analytic tradition; Ngok Luk; Rngog lugs; rNgog lugs; rngog lugs; thos bsam gyi lugs |
| Featured People | Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab, Chapa Chökyi Senge, Rongtön Sheja Kunrik, Sajjana |
| In Tibetan Script | རྔོག་ལུགས་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rngog lugs |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | ngok luk |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Source Language | Tibetan |
| Basic Meaning | Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. |
| Has the Sense of | Also known as the analytic tradition (thos bsam gyi lugs), literally, "the tradition of hearing and contemplating," this form of exegesis explicated the Uttaratantra through philosophical reasoning and debate and thus entailed a primarily scholastic approach to the treatise. However, both the Ngok Tradition and its opposing counterpart, the Tsen Tradition, reportedly came from a single source, the Kashmiri scholar-yogi Sajjana. |
| Related Terms | thos bsam gyi lugs |
| Related Topic Pages | Tsen Tradition |
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As cited in Kano 2006 (see Appendix H, p. 624), according to Jamgön Kongtrul's commentary on the Uttaratantra, The Unassailable Lion's Roar, the lineage of the Ngok Tradition is:
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