Bhāvaviveka

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PersonType Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon Bhāvaviveka
MainNameTib ལེགས་ལྡན་འབྱེད་
MainNameWylie legs ldan 'byed
MainNameSkt Bhāvaviveka
MainNamePin Qingbian
SortName Bhāvaviveka
AltNamesTib ལེགས་ལྡན་  ·  སྐལ་ལྡན་
AltNamesWylie legs ldan  ·  skal ldan
AltNamesOther Bhāviveka  ·  Bhavya
YearBirth 500
YearDeath 578
ReligiousAffiliation Svātantrika Madhyamaka
StudentOf Klu grub
TeacherOf Dpal sbas
BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P0RK301
IsInGyatsa No
BnwShortPersonBio Also known as Bhāviveka and Bhavya, an important Indian master of the Madhyamaka school, identified in Tibet as a proponent of Svātantrika Madhyamaka and, within that, of Sautrāntika-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka. He is best known for two works. The first is the Prajñāpradīpa, his commentary on Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyam- akakārikā; this work has an extensive subcommentary by Avalokitavrata. Although important in its own right as one of the major commentaries on the central text of the Madhyamaka school, the work is most often mentioned for its criticism of the commentary of Buddhapālita on the first chapter of Nāgārjuna’s text, where Bhāvaviveka argues that it is insufficient for the Madhyamaka only to state the absurd consequences (prasaṅga) that follow from the position of the opponent . . . The other major work of Bhāvaviveka is his Madhyamakahṛdaya, written in verse, and its prose autocommentary, the Tarkajvālā. The Madhyamakahṛdaya is preserved in both Sanskrit and Tibetan, the Tarkajvālā only in Tibetan. It is a work of eleven chapters, the first three and the last two of which set forth the main points in Bhāvaviveka’s view of the nature of reality and the Buddhist path, dealing with such topics as bodhicitta, the knowledge of reality (tattvajñāna), and omniscience (sarvajñātā). The intervening chapters set forth the positions (and Bhāvaviveka’s refutations) of various Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools, including the śrāvaka, Yogācāra, Sāṃkhya, Vaiśeṣika, Vedānta, and Mīmāṃsā. These chapters (along with Śāntarakṣita’s Tattvasaṃgraha) are an invaluable source of insight into the relations between Madhyamaka and other contemporary Indian philosophical schools, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist. (Source: "Bhāvaviveka." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 114. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
PosBuNayDefProv Provisional
PosBuNayDefProvNotes "Bhāviveka contends that the teaching that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature implies merely that emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness, etc., abide in the minds of all sentient beings; it does not presuppose an inherent eternal puruṣa pervading everything." Kano, K. Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 8.
PosAllBuddha Yes
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes See Kano, K. Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 8.
PosEmptyLumin Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path
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