Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma

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Classical Tibetan Authors

བོད་སྤྲུལ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་

Wylie	bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma
English Phonetics	Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima
Sort Name	Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima

Other names

• བོད་སྤྲུལ་
• བོད་པ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་
• ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཐོས་བསམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• bod sprul
• bod pa sprul sku mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma
• thub bstan bshad sgrub thos bsam rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	1898
Death:	1959
Notes on dates:	Alternate dates given for his birth are 1900 and 1902.
Place of birth:	rgya tsha rdzong (dwags po)

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Earth
Animal	Dog
Rab Jyung	15

Dates of passing

Day	15
Month	9
Gender	Female
Element	Earth
Animal	Pig
Rab Jyung	16

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Primary Professional Affiliation

Studied at Dzogchen Monastery's Śrī Siṃha monastic college (shrI sing+ha bshad drwa) and served as abbot of Gegong monastery (rdza rgyud dge mang bshad grwa) for 8 years.

Teachers

Kun bzang dpal ldan · g.yu khog bya bral chos dbyings rang grol · 'jigs med yon tan mgon po

Students

Nyoshul Khenpo · Mkhan po 'jigs med phun tshogs · rdzogs chen mkhan po zla ba'i 'od zer · Tarthang Tulku · rdzogs chen mkhan po thub bstan brtson grus

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P743

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Botrul-Dongak-Tenpai-Nyima/10093

Wiki Pages

• Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma on the DRL
• Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma on the LIB
• Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Position:	Definitive
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All beings have Buddha-nature
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If "Qualified", explain:
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Which Wheel Turning
Position:	Third Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
Position:	Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
Position:	Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity
Notes:	"Thus, from the point of view of emptiness, buddha nature is the empty dharmadhātu (the object) and from the point of view of appearance, it is the wisdom (the subject) that is not empty of the inseparable qualities of a buddha. Both these aspects are inseparable and are empty of the adventitious stains that represent the delusive appearances of saṃsāra." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, p. 75.
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
Position:	Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)
Notes:	"...Pötrül says repeatedly that both the Madhyamakāvatāra and the Uttaratantra are scriptures of “the Great Prāsaṅgika Mahāyāna,” though he clearly rejects the Gelugpa understanding of this being the case because, he says, the Gelugpa position is solely based on a nonimplicative negation (the lack of real existence), while completely rejecting the notion of luminosity." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, p. 75.
Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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An fully enlightened Buddha is said to have the power to manifest in many forms in order to help the sentient beings. The emanation body of a buddha, as the third of the three bodies of a buddha, refers to the many forms in which a buddha can manifest and which are accessible to ordinary sentient beings. Buddhist scholars present four types of emanation bodies: emanation as supreme being, emanation as rebirth, emanation as artisan and emanation in diverse forms.

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

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.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge.

Mental stains that are not inherent to the nature of the mind but are temporarily present as the residue of past actions or habitual tendencies. It is sometimes iterated as adventitious defilements (Skt. āgantukakleśa, Tib. glo bur gyi nyon mongs), which references the fickle and temporary nature of disturbing emotions that lack an ultimately established basis for existence.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.

The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama.

A negation that merely denies the existence of something without implicitly suggesting an alternative.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.