Ratnākaraśānti

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNameTib	རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་
MainNameWylie	rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba
MainNameSkt	Ratnākaraśānti
AltNamesOther	Śāntipa
ReligiousAffiliation	Vikramaśilā
TeacherOf	Maitrīpa
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P0RK153
IsInGyatsa	No
PosAllBuddha	Qualified No
PosAllBuddhaNote	He accepts a pure nature that is the five wisdom's whihc are possessed, but obscured in sentient beings, but in terms of buddha-nature as a seed, only bodhisattvas have it.
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes	"...he suggests that only bodhisattvas have Buddha-nature, that is, the spiritual disposition to become a buddha, whereas others do not." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 75.
PosYogaMadhya	Yogācāra
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	Nirākāra Vijñānavāda, though as Kano states: "he defines the Madhyamaka position in accordance with the Madhyäntavibhäga's, description of the “middle way.” Indeed, he repeats throughout his works that the doctrine of the Mädhyamikas and that of the Yogäcäras are completely compatible." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 73.
PosVehicles	3
PosVehiclesNotes	Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness,p. 76.
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A seed, commonly used figuratively in the sense of something which has the potential to develop or grow, and likewise as the basic cause for this development or growth.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.

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.