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Anyone have any idea about resources/texts in English to study the abhisamayalankara? Preferably from a gelugpa source.
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Likely find these materials in either through Jeffery Hopkin's UMA project, FPMT's Basic Program, or Master's Program.

I will look I think I might have some of what you are looking for or I can post a link.

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Look here and scroll down. Gomang textbooks, Root text, and Jamyang She-pa's commentary, etc...

https://www.uma-tibet.org/index-2a.html

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Wow, perfect.
Thanks 😊
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Humanic wrote: Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:31 am Anyone have any idea about resources/texts in English to study the abhisamayalankara? Preferably from a gelugpa source.
Tsongkhapa’s commentary has been translated and published by Spareham.
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"Golden Garland of Eloquence", by Tsongkhapa, translated by Gareth Sparham (I had to disable BBCode to make the URLs appear visible, no idea why it's like this with Amazon links on this forum):

Vol. 1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0875730159/
Vol. 2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0875730167/
Vol. 3: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0875730175/
Vol. 4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0875730183/

(Sparham has also translated the Abhisamayalamkara with the Vrtti by Arya Vimuktisena, and the Aloka by Haribhadra.)
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Excellent, thanks guys.
I appreciate your help.
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The UMA website is a fantastic source. :thumbsup:

There is also material posted from Institute for Buddhist Dialectics in McLeod Ganj:
https://ibd-buddhist.blogspot.com/2010/ ... ra_13.html

Material from Lotsawa House (not necessarily from a Gelugpa point of view):
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/abhisamayalankara/

Lectures on the Seventy Topics by Geshe Ngawang Dakpa taped at Tse Chen Ling Center for Buddhist Studies and posted on Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/Tse_Chen_Li ... s_20060814

Gareth Sparham's mammoth undertaking:
Abhisamayālaṃkāra with Vṛtti and Āloka (in four volumes). Jain Publishing, 2006 (vol. 1) and 2008 (vol. 2). Translation of Maitreya's text, with two key commentaries by Ārya Vimuktisena and Haribhadra.
Golden Garland of Eloquence, vols. 1., 2., 3., 4. Jain Publishing. 2008. Translation of an Abhisamayālaṃkāra commentary by Tsongkhapa.

The Abhisamayalamkara is the first major topic in the FPMT's Masters Program, and Chapter Four is studied in its Basic Program. It is normally studied together with Haribhadra's Clear Meaning commentary and Gyaltsab Je's Ornament of the Essence Commentary. However, the associated study materials are normally restricted to FPMT students. You could try writing to the FPMT's education department to see if they would make their materials and translations available to you.

Tsongkhapa's commentary is normally explained as reflecting his early views (I believe it was written when he was in his twenties...) and Gyaltsab Je's commentary reflects Tsongkhapa's later views.
The antidote—to be free from the suffering of samsara—you need to be free from delusion and karma; you need to be free from ignorance, the root of samsara. So you need to meditate on emptiness. That is what you need. Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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