Gungru Gyaltsen Zangpo

MainNamePhon	Gungru Gyaltsen Zangpo
MainNameTib	གུང་རུ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་
MainNameWylie	gung ru rgyal mtshan bzang po
bio	Gungru Gyaltsen Zangpo (Tib. གུང་རུ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་, Wyl. gung ru rgyal mtshan bzang po) (1383–1450) - the third throneholder of Sera Monastery. He was a disciple of Tsongkhapa, Gyaltsab Je, and Khedrup Je. He was a teacher of Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe. His extant writings were recently published in three volumes. Volume 1 byams pa'i dgongs rgyan - a commentary on Prajnaparamita philosophy. Volume 2 dbu ma rtsa ba shes rab kyi don bsdus - Short explanation of the meaning of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. dbu ma 'jug pa'i 'grel pa - Commentary on the Madhyamakavatara of Chandrakirti. legs bshad bla ma'i man ngag bdud rtsi'i chu rgyun - General treatise on Madhyamika philosophy. Volume 3 dbu ma bzhi brgya pa'i 'grel pa - Commentary on Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses dbu ma'i stong thun - Survey of Madhyamika thought in the context of the various philosophical positions. mngon rtogs rgyan gyi de kho na nyid gsal bar byed pa mkhas pa'i yid 'phrog - A commentary on the Abhisamayalankara. (Source Accessed Jan 27, 2023)
YearBirth	1383
YearDeath	1450
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The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school.

The reality or the objective state of things as they are. In the Buddhist context, it refers to the ultimate nature of things although what exactly suchness means would depend on the philosophical position of the specific schools. The Middle Way school, for instance, consider emptiness as the suchness of all things.