Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima
MainNameTib	བོད་སྤྲུལ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་
MainNameWylie	bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma
SortName	Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima
AltNamesTib	བོད་སྤྲུལ་  ·  བོད་པ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་  ·  ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཐོས་བསམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
AltNamesWylie	bod sprul  ·  bod pa sprul sku mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma  ·  thub bstan bshad sgrub thos bsam rgya mtsho
YearBirth	1898
YearDeath	1959
DatesNotes	Alternate dates given for his birth are 1900 and 1902.
BornIn	rgya tsha rdzong (dwags po)
TibDateGender	Male
TibDateElement	Earth
TibDateAnimal	Dog
TibDateRabjung	15
TibDateDeathDay	15
TibDateDeathMonth	9
TibDateDeathGender	Female
TibDateDeathElement	Earth
TibDateDeathAnimal	Pig
TibDateDeathRabjung	16
ReligiousAffiliation	Nyingma
ClassicalProfAff	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.
StudentOf	Kunzang Palden  ·  g.yu khog bya bral chos dbyings rang grol  ·  Jigme Yönten Gönpo
TeacherOf	Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje  ·  Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok  ·  rdzogs chen mkhan po zla ba'i 'od zer  ·  Tarthang Tulku  ·  rdzogs chen mkhan po thub bstan brtson grus
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P743
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Botrul-Dongak-Tenpai-Nyima/10093
IsInGyatsa	No
PosBuNayDefProv	Definitive
PosWheelTurn	Third Turning
PosYogaMadhya	Madhyamaka
PosEmptyLumin	Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity
PosEmptyLuminNotes	"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." Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part, p. 75.
PosSvataPrasa	Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)
PosSvataPrasaNotes	"...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." Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part, p. 75.
Other wikis	research:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma buddhanature:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma bca:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma rtz:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma dnz:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma dudjom:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma khyentselineage:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma lcp:Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma If the page does not yet exist on the remote wiki, you can paste the tag {{PersonCall}} inside the destination page. But please first make sure you are on the right page. Some wikis have the person page on Person/<COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME>, in which case the page <COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME> needs to be redirected. Ask if you need clarification.

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.

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.

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.