Dge slong rtogs ldan yon tan rgya mtsho

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མཁས་བཙུན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	mkhas btsun yon tan rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Khetsun Yönten Gyatso

Other names

• དགེ་སློང་རྟོགས་ལྡན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
• ཇོ་ནང་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• dge slong rtogs ldan yon tan rgya mtsho
• jo nang yon tan rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	1260
Death:	1327

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Jonang

Primary Professional Affiliation

Third Throne Holder of Jonang Monastery

Teachers

Kun spangs thugs rje brtson 'grus · Rgyal ba ye shes

Students

Dol po pa · Chos grags dpal · Rat+na gu ru · Chos grags bzang po

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Links

BDRC Link (P150)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P150

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Khetsun-Yonten-Gyatso/2790

Wiki Pages

• Dge slong rtogs ldan yon tan rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Dge slong rtogs ldan yon tan rgya mtsho on the LIB
• Dge slong rtogs ldan yon tan rgya mtsho on the BNW

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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.