Engle, A.

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Artemus Bertine Engle

English Phonetics	Artemus Engle
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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Language:	English
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Translates to:	English

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Tsadra Foundation

Secondary Affiliation

Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Center, Howell, NJ

Religious Affiliation

Geluk

Teachers

Sera Mey Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin

Current projects

• Asaṅga’s Bodhisattvabhūmi. Title of the English translation: The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi
• The Ārya Nāgārjuna System of Guhyasamāja Practice. Part One: The Generation Stage. Title of principal work to be translated: The Recitation of the Supplication Prayer to the Lineage Gurus and the Self-Generation Ritual of the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tradition that was Edited by the All-Knowing Je Tsongkapa and is Practiced in the Tantric College of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.
  

PhD University

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Education

Ph.D. Buddhist studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biographical Information

Artemus B. Engle began studying the Tibetan language in Howell, New Jersey in early 1971 at Labsum Shedrup Ling, the precursor of the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center. In 1972 he became a student of Sera Mey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche, a relationship that spanned more than thirty years. In 1975 he enrolled in the Buddhist Studies program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and received a PhD in 1983. Since the mid-1980s he taught Tibetan language and Buddhist doctrine at the Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Center in Howell, New Jersey. In 2005 he became a Tsadra Foundation Translation Fellow and has worked primarily on the Pañcaskandhaprakarana and the Bodhisattvabhūmi.

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A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.