Jñānaśrīmitra

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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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).

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.