Gsang phu ba blo gros mtshungs med
Gsang phu ba blo gros mtshungs med on the DRL
Wylie | gsang phu ba blo gros mtshungs med |
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English Phonetics | Sangpuwa Lodrö Tsungme |
Birth: | 14th Century |
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Place of birth: | dbus |
Tibetan calendar dates
- Religious Affiliation
- Kadam
- Students
- g.yag sde paN chen · rang byung rdo rje
Biographical Information
A Kadam scholar from Sangpu Neutok Monastery who was known for his expertise in the Five Treatises of Maitreya. He was a contemporary of both Dölpopa and Butön and a teacher of the Sakya scholar Yakde Paṇchen and the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje.
- BDRC Link (P63)
- https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P63
- Treasury of Lives Link
- https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/blo-gros-mtshungs-med/P63
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- Person description or short bio
- A Kadam scholar from Sangpu Neutok Monastery that was known for his expertise in the Five Treatises of Maitreya. He was a senior contemporary of both Dölpopa and Butön and a teacher of the Sakya scholar Yakde Paṇchen and the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje.
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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional? | |
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Position: | Definitive |
Notes: | "Sangpu Lodrö's commentary frames the Uttaratantra in a positive light, arguing that it is a commentary on definitive sutras included in the last-wheel teachings that are "exceedingly secret among the secrets," and that it teaches that all beings have a tathāgata-essence endowed with enlightened qualities." Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 31. |
All beings have Buddha-nature | |
Position: | Yes |
If "Qualified", explain: | |
Notes: | *"He claims that tathāgata-essence exists in all sentient beings in a fully enlightened form. He states that: the dharma-body is dharma-reality indivisible from [buddha] qualities. Since there is no objection to the fact that the dharma-body exists pervasively in all sentient beings, in the manner of one entity; it is unacceptable to present it, [i.e., the existence of the dharma-body in sentient beings] as [merely] imputed." Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 32.
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Which Wheel Turning | |
Position: | Third Turning |
Notes: | "Sangpu Lodrö's commentary frames the Uttaratantra in a positive light, arguing that it is a commentary on definitive sutras included in the last-wheel teachings..." Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 31. |
Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
Position: | Madhyamaka |
Notes: | "Nevertheless, even though the Uttaratantra and the sutras on which the Uttaratantra is based occupy a position of higher scriptural authority than the middle-wheel teachings of the Prajñāpāramitāsūtras, Sangpu Lodrö claims that both the middle-wheel scriptures and the Uttaratantra teach emptiness. He argues:
'The sutras for the Uttaratantra and the Uttaratantra [itself] do not contradict the Prajñāpāramitāsūtras because the emptiness of inherent existence of all phenomena taught there [in the Prajñāpāramitāsūtras] is the dharma-body explicated here [in the last wheel sutras and the Uttaratantra].'" Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 33. |
Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
Position: | 1 |
Notes: | "Blo-gros-mtshungs-med for his part is more intent on harmonizing the expression in the RGV with other scriptures, and probably was fully conscious of the fact that lack of reverence for śrāvakas contradicted his ekayāna stance." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 327. |
Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
Position: | There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha |
Notes: | *Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 32.
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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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