Rngog blo ldan shes rab

PersonType	Category:Lotsawas Category:Classical Tibetan Authors Category:Authors of Tibetan Works
MainNamePhon	Ngok Lotsawa Loden Sherab
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  ·  blo ldan shes rab
AltNamesOther	Ngok Lotsāwa  ·  Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab  ·  Ngok Loden Sherab  ·  Lochen Loden Sherab  ·  Loden Sherab
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)." David Seyfort Ruegg, Studies in Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka Thought Part 1, p. 30; "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.
PosAllBuddha	Qualified Yes
PosAllBuddhaNote	"...both Ngok and Chapa argue that sentient beings do not have tathägata-essence on the basis of the first reason because they do not have the purified enlightened body of a buddha, rather they have thepotential to achieve an enlightened state. However, they agree that sentient beings have the tathägata-essence from the perspective of the second reason, which is that such-ness is indivisible or nondual. As Ngok states, 'That both a tathägata and ordinary beings have [tathägata] essence is actually the case.' The first reason is true only for enlightened beings, but only designated for ordinary beings; the second reason applies to both enlightened beings and sentient beings. Therefore, the two Kadam masters argue that sentient beings do not have the tathägata-essence from the perspective of either the first reason of the resultant essence or the third reason of the causal essence. Rather it is the second reason that becomes the central point for establishing the link between enlightenment and sentient beings. It is the middle reason that shows that sentient beings and tathâgatas are the same in their ultimate nature. In other words, the only thing that sentient beings have in common with enlightened beings is the ultimate nature of their minds."
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes	Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, pp. 17-18
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 conscious of this divide, even if later Tibetan traditions often presuppose rNgog's knowledge 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. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, 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. Ralf Kramer, The Great Tibetan Translator, p.? "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 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, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, 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 the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.