འཕགས་པ་དཀན་མཆག་སྤྲན་ཅས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.14

intro.14

Yet the sūtra is also celebrated among the Tibetan exponents of “extrinsic emptiness” (gzhan stong), an interpretational current that Tsongkhapa and many others have ardently sought to refute. Thus, for example, Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye (1813–99) includes The Jewel Cloud in a list of ten particularly profound sūtras in his commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāga.¹⁶ While the term tathāgatagarba does not occur in the sūtra, The Jewel Cloud indeed teaches that the true nature of things is pure, sublime, indestructible, and everlasting ().