The History of Buddhist Thought c30.s2.16

c30.s2.16

*Uttaratantra. The sublime science of the Great Vehicle to salvation, being a manual of Buddhist monism*. The work of Ārya Maitreya with a commentary by Āryasanga. Tr. from the Tibetan by E. Obermiller. (Publ. in *Acta Orient.* ix, 1931, 81 ff. Dr. Obermiller discusses the five treatises of Maitreya, which were once attributed entirely to Asanga. He describes the fifth, the *Uttaratantra*, as “the exposition of the most developed monistic and pantheistic teachings of the later Buddhists and of the special theory of the Essence of Buddhahood [*tathāgata-garbha*], the fundamental element of the Absolute, as existing in all living beings”.)