Ngok Tradition

རྔོག་ལུགས་ rngog lugs

Tibetan - Noun

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.

Term Variations
Key Term	Ngok Tradition
Topic Variation	Analytic Tradition
Tibetan	རྔོག་ལུགས་ ( ngok luk)
Wylie Transliteration	rngog lugs ( ngok luk)
Term Information
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
Term Type	Noun
Definitions
Other Definitions	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: Maitreya Maitrīpa Ānandakīrti Sajjana → Atiśa rNgog Gro lung pa Shang tshe spong pa Nyang bran pa Phywa pa gTsang nag pa Dan bag pa Blo gros mtshungs med Phag gru rgyal mtsan bzang po Rong ston