Jñānaśrīmitra

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
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. (Robert E. Buswell and Donald S. Lopez Jr. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014], 398).
PosBuNayDefProv	Definitive
PosBuNayDefProvNotes	Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 58.
PosWheelTurn	Third Turning
PosYogaMadhya	Yogācāra
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	Sākāravāda
PosEmptyLuminNotes	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 b-n = emptiness. See Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 61. Karl includes him in the second category (Mind's Luminous Nature)
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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 state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.