Jñānaśrīmitra

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PersonType Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon Jñānaśrīmitra
MainNameTib ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན
MainNameWylie ye shes dpal bshes gnyen
MainNameSkt Jñānaśrīmitra
YearBirth 975/980
YearDeath 1025/1030
ReligiousAffiliation Vikramaśilā
TeacherOf Maitrīpa
IsInGyatsa No
BnwShortPersonBio Late Indian Yogācāra philosopher and logician of the school of Dharmakīrti at Vikramaśīla monastery, born between 975 and 1000. Within the Yogācāra, he held the so-called “aspectarian” (sākāra) position regarding the nature of cognition, taking a position opposed to that of Ratnākaraśānti. He is credited as the author of twelve treatises, including an important work on apoha, the Apohaprakaraṇa. In his works on logic, he upholds the interpretation of Dharmakīrti by Prajñākaragupta against the interpretation by Dharmottara. (Source: "Jñānaśrīmitra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 398. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
PosBuNayDefProv Definitive
PosBuNayDefProvNotes Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 58.
PosWheelTurn Third Turning
PosYogaMadhya Yogācāra
PosYogaMadhyaNotes Sākāravāda to be specific.
PosEmptyLumin Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature
PosEmptyLuminNotes There are different takes on what is view was:
  • Karl includes him in the category of those assert buddha-nature to be Mind's Luminous Nature. Stating, "Jñānaśrīmitra cites Uttaratantra I.154 and RGVV and explains that real aspects are mental forms that have the nature of being appearances of lucidity (prakāśarūpa), which he equates with buddha nature—the tathāgata element (tathāgatadhātu)." Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part,pp. 57-58.
  • However, Kano suggests his view is is that buddha-nature shares features (or coincides) with emptiness and is a property (dharma) of the image (ākāra), which in turn is its possessor (dharmin). In this he was a precursor to Ngok's innovative equation of buddha-nature = emptiness. See Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 61.
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