Lipman, K.

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Kennard Lipman

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

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Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

Biographical Information

Rabbi Kennard Lipman, Ph.D., received rabbinic ordination in 2002 from the Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, and was rabbi in State College, PA, Napa, CA, and Santa Maria, CA. He is currently a Lecturer in the Dept. of Humanities at San Jose State University. During college he traveled to India and then studied for the next 20 years with some of the foremost teachers of Tibetan Buddhism. He received his Ph.D. in Far Eastern Studies under Prof. H.V. Guenther. In that same year he also met his principal Tibetan teacher, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. Ken taught in, and was also Program Director of, the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. (Source Accessed March 31, 2020)

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs 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?
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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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Full Name

Kennard Lipman

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Kennard Lipman, PhD, studied at the University of Chicago and at the University of California, Berkeley, completing his doctorate under Dr. H. V. Guenther. He received teachings from masters in all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, his principal teacher being Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. Source

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.