Hubbard, J.

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Jamie Hubbard

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	https://sophia.smith.edu/~jhubbard/

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Smith College

Education

Ph.D., M.A. University of Wisconsin; B.A. Webster University

Biographical Information

Jamie Hubbard graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a doctorate in Buddhist studies and has been teaching at Smith College since 1985.

Hubbard is the author of books, articles and films on Buddhism in East Asia, including Pruning the Bodhi Tree (with Paul Swanson), "Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood," and the film The Yamaguchi Story: Buddhism and the Family in Japan. He also has extensive interests in the use of technology in Buddhist studies and has worked on numerous projects in the area of archiving Buddhist texts and digital publication, and more recently in the field of neuroscience and emerging technologies of awareness: Cyborg Buddha! (Source Accessed June 13, 2019)

Publications

Books

• Jamie Hubbard. Materials for the Study of the San-chieh Movement. Online Publication, 2003~present.

• Jamie Hubbard. Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Heresy. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

• Jamie Hubbard & Paul Swanson, eds. Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Papers

• The Yamaguchi Story: Interactive DVD (2009)

• Tathāgatagarbha, Emptiness, and Monism (2008)

• Original Purity and the Arising of Delusion (2008)

• Steal This Sutra (2008)

• “Some Preliminary Remarks on the History of Chinese Translation of Budhist Scriptures,” translation of Kazuo Okabe, “Yakkyōshi no Kenkyū no Hōhō to Kadai 訳経史の研究の 方法と課題” (1981)

• “The Chinese Catalogues of Buddhist Scriptures,” translation of Kazuo Okabe, “Kyōroku to Mokuroku 経録と目録,” (1981)

Links

Wiki Pages

• Hubbard, J. on the DRL
• Hubbard, J. on the LIB
• Hubbard, J. on the BNW

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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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.