Zapart, J.

Zapart, J. on the DRL

Professors

English Phonetics	Jarosław Zapart

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Contact information

Website:	https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=p1gfBrcAAAAJ&hl=uk

About

Primary Language:	Polish

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Jagiellonian University

PhD University

Jagiellonian University

Biographical Information

Dr. Jarosław Zapart is an Indologist and buddhologist whose research interests revolve mainly around early literature and philosophy of Mahāyāna Buddhism. He is especially concerned with origins of the tathāgatagarbha concept, its evolution in Indian sources and its earliest history in China. His second field of interest encompasses the Hindi Sant thought & literature as well as the North Indian Bhakti. He is also involved in the study of Indian aesthetics and poetics and the aesthetics of Indian & Western classical music. (Adapted from Source April 16, 2020)

Publications

• 2018, Power Yoga, Power Yoga, Fragile. Pismoulturalowe ”, no. 1-2 / 39-40, pp. 12–19.

• 2017, Tathagatagarbha. At the source of the Buddha-nature concept. Jagiellonian University Press, Krakow, 406 pages.

• 2017, The Buddha as I: Selfhood and Identity in Śrīmālādevī-siṃhanāda-sūtra, "Studia religiologica", No. 50 (2), pp. 145-161.

• 2015, Buddhist concept of the luminous mind and its role in the tathagatagarbha tradition, "Studia religiologica", No. 48 (2), pp. 117-130.

• 2014, The theory of sphoty and the suggestive power of Anandawardhana's poetry language, "The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture", No. 10 (2), pp. 131–144.

• 2013, "Critical Buddhism" in the social, philosophical and methodological dimensions", part I & II, "The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture", No. 6 (3), pp. 161-176, 177-194.

• 2013, "As the first we weave silence". On the creative process in the poetry of SH Watsjajana, Agjeja , "Atma", No. 1, pp. 1-22.

• 2012, The All- Pervasive Basis of Enlightenment, or the formation of the concept of tathagatagarbha, "The Polish Journal of Arts and Culture," No. 1 (1), pp. 127–148.

• 2011, On Abhinawagupta's Aesthetic and Mystical Experience, "Scientific Notebooks of the Doctoral Society of the Jagiellonian University", No. 2 (1), pp. 151-167.

Links

Wiki Pages

• Zapart, J. on the DRL
• Zapart, J. on the LIB
• Zapart, J. on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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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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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.

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

The luminous aspect of mind that is often contrasted with its empty aspect. It is often used figuratively to reference the cognizant, or knowing, aspect of mind and sometimes more literally as the natural luminosity of mind and luminous wisdom that is experienced in meditation.

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.