Zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho

Zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho on the DRL

Authors of Tibetan Works

ཞང་སྟོན་བསྟན་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Shangton Tenpa Gyatso

Dates

Birth:	1825
Death:	1897
Place of birth:	Tseshung

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Familial Relations

Father: snying dkar 'bum; Mother: tshe ring sgrol ma

Teachers

shes rab rgya mtsho · thub bstan 'jigs med rgya mtsho · dkon mchog rgyal mtshan · dkon mchog rgya mtsho · blo gsal rgya mtsho · bstan 'dzin

Students

dge 'dun bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho · skal bzang thub bstan dbang phyug · 'jigs med 'phrin las rgya mtsho · blo bzang dbang phyug bshad sgrub rgya mtsho · 'jigs med blo gros rgya mtsho

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P257

Wiki Pages

• Zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho on the LIB
• Zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Shangton Tenpa Gyatso was born in Tseshung (rtse gzhung) in 1825. His father's name was Nyingkar bum. and his mother was Tsering Drolma. He entered Bkra-shis-'khyil monastery in 1837. He later took the Tshogs-bsags rab-'byams-pa degree in 1845. He went to Pe-cin to become the yongs 'dzin of the Thu'u-bkwan in 1854. His collected works (gsung 'bum) comprise four volumes (79 sections). His Collected Works can be found here. (Adapted from Source Sep 1 2020)

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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If "Qualified", explain:
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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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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.