Ngok Tradition

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Key Term	Ngok Tradition
In Tibetan Script	རྔོག་ལུགས་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	rngog lugs
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	ngok luk
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Tibetan
Basic Meaning	The Tibetan tradition of exegesis of the Uttaratantra that stems from Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab.
Has the Sense of	Also known as the analytical tradition (thos bsam gyi lugs), literally, "the tradition of hearing and contemplating," this form of exegesis explicated the text 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	Tsen Tradition
Definitions

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.

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.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

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.