Rngog blo ldan shes rab

MainNameTib	རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་
MainNameWylie	rngog blo ldan shes rab
AltNamesTib	རྔོག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་  ·  ལོ་ཆེན་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་
AltNamesWylie	rngog lo tsA ba  ·  lo chen blo ldan shes rab
BiographicalInfo	Son of rngok lo tsA ba legs pa'i shes rab
YearBirth	1059
YearDeath	1109
BornIn	yar 'brog (lho ka)
TibDateGender	Female
TibDateElement	Earth
TibDateAnimal	Pig
TibDateRabjung	1
ReligiousAffiliation	bka' gdams
StudentOf	Rinchen Zangpo
TeacherOf	shes rab 'bar  ·  gro lung pa blo gros 'byung gnas  ·  Zhang Tsepong Chökyi Lama  ·  rin chen nam mkha' rdo rje  ·  rin chen grags
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2551
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ngok-Loden-Sherab/4261
IsInGyatsa	No
PosBuNayDefProv	Definitive
PosBuNayDefProvNotes	"He is also said to have held that among the five Teachings of Maitreya only the Ratnagotrivibhaga is of definitive meaning (nītārtha)." p. 30; Ruegg, D. S. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Thought I. Ruegg, David Seyfort. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Thought Part I: Three studies in the History of Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Philosophy. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 50. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2000.; "rNgog considers the RGV to be a Madhamaka work, and hence its teaching to be definitive. His position is made clear in the introductory passage of the rGyud blam don bsdus, where RGV is identified as a treatise that explains sutras of definitive meaning (nitartha), whereas the other four treatises of Maitreya (i.e., Abhisamayalamkara, Mahayanasutralamkara, Madhyantavibhaga, and Dharmadharmatavibhaga) are listed as treatises that explain sutras of provisional meaning (neyartha)." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 249.
PosWheelTurn	Third Turning
PosYogaMadhya	Madhyamaka
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	"rNgog considers the RGV to be a Madhamaka work, and hence its teaching to be definitive. His position is made clear in the introductory passage of the rGyud blam don bsdus, where RGV is identified as a treatise that explains sutras of definitive meaning (nitartha), whereas the other four treatises of Maitreya (i.e., Abhisamayalamkara, Mahayanasutralamkara, Madhyantavibhaga, and Dharmadharmatavibhaga) are listed as treatises that explain sutras of provisional meaning (neyartha)." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 249.
PosAnalyticMedit	Analytic Tradition
PosAnalyticMeditNotes	"These two traditions of rngog and btsan were respectively called the "analytical tradition" (thos bsam gyi lugs) and "meditative tradtion" (gsom lugs)."Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 242
PosEmptyLumin	Tathagatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Nonimplicative Negation
PosEmptyLuminNotes	"As to the interpretation of Buddha-nature, on the other hand, Sajjana and rNgog hold different views, for Sajjana equates Buddha-nature with the luminous mind, which is not empty, while rNgog equates it with emptiness." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 239 According to Karl, he also equates it with the Alaya Consciousness, "Moreover, Ngog equates “dhātu” not only with the tathāgata heart (as in RGVV) but also with the ālaya-consciousness (maybe influenced by the Laṅkāvatārasūtra). Obviously, this creates a considerable tension with his definition of the tathāgata heart as emptiness, but he does not resolve it..." Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part, p. 66.
PosSvataPrasa	Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་)
PosSvataPrasaNotes	"A number of later Tibetan works, and several modern scholars as well, define his position as Svatantrika-Madhyamaka... We cannot yet be sure whether rngog himself was consicous of this divide, even if later Tibetan traditions ofent presuppose rNgog's knowledget of it. Sakya-mchog-ldan, for instance, in assigning rNgog to a third position of Madhyamaka neither Svatantrika nor Prasangika, presumes that rNgog knew of both schools." - Kano, p. 228.  ; "rNgog lo is known to have actively taught and commented on the “Three Svātantrika [Treatises] of Eastern [India]” (rang rgyud shar gsum), namely the Satyadvayavibhaṅga of Jñānagarbha, the Madhyamakālaṃ- kāra of Śāntarakṣita, and the Madhyamakāloka of Kamalaśīla, which formed the textual foundation of the Svātantrika Yogācāra-Madhyamaka synthesis, among whose proponents rNgog lo may be counted. Kramer, Ralf. The Great Tibetan Translator: Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059–1109). Collectanea Himalayica Studies on the History and Culture of the Himalayas and Tibet 1. Munich, Germany: Indus Verlag, 2007. ; "rNgog's strategy here is to appeal to the destinction between the Two Truths..." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 271
PosVajrapada	First four are causes of the later three; also, the three jewels are the results of the latter four (which are substantive causes and attendant conditions) Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, pp. 252-
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"Tathagatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Nonimplicative Negation" is not in the list (Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature, Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity, Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra), Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood, Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.

Refers to a teaching that is literally true.

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.

Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

The luminous aspect of mind that is often contrasted with its empty aspect. It is often used figuratively to reference the cognizant, or knowing, aspect of mind and sometimes more literally as the natural luminosity of mind and luminous wisdom that is experienced in meditation.

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

A fundamental component or essential constituent.

This is the title of Asaṅga's commentary to the Gyü Lama that is given by Tibetan sources instead of the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā.

Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā

A neutral base consciousness that is posited as the storehouse for the seeds of past karmic actions in which they remain in a latent state until the circumstances arise for them to ripen as karmic consequences.

The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.

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 qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

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