Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa

Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

ཞང་སྟོན་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་

Wylie	zhang ston bsod nams grags pa
English Phonetics	Zhangtön Sönam Drakpa

Other names

• ཞང་སྟོན་རྒྱ་བོ་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་
• ཞང་སྟོན་བྱང་སེམས་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་

• zhang ston rgya bo bsod nams grags pa
• zhang ston byang sems bsod nams grags pa

Dates

Birth:	1292
Death:	1370

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Jonang

Other Biographical info:

Biography on Jonang Foundation Website

Links

BDRC Link (P2253)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2253

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Shangton-Gyawo-Sonam-Drakpa/3937

Wiki Pages

• Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa on the DRL
• Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa on the LIB
• Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa 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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Promotes how many vehicles?
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.