Abhayākaragupta

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Abhayākara
MainNameTib	འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་
MainNameWylie	'jigs med 'byung gnas
MainNameSkt	Abhayākara
AltNamesTib	ཨ་བྷ་ཡཱ་ཀ་ར་གུཔྟ་  ·  འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་སྦས་པ་  ·  པཎྜི་ཏ་ཨ་བྷ་ཡཱ་ཀ་ར་གུཔྟ་
AltNamesWylie	a b+ha yA ka ra gup+ta  ·  'jigs med 'byung gnas sbas pa  ·  paN+Di ta a b+ha yA ka ra gup+ta
AltNamesOther	Abhayākaragupta  ·  Paṇḍita Abhayākaragupta
YearDeath	1125
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P0RK166
IsInGyatsa	No
PosYogaMadhya	Madhyamaka
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 109; he cites Ruegg for this, and agrees.
PosVehicles	1
PosVehiclesNotes	Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 110.
PosEmptyLuminNotes	Buddha-nature is equivalent to selflessness of the dharmatā. This is not the same as b-n = emptiness. Kano explains that this is a precursor to that position. Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 111 et passim.
PosSvataPrasa	Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་)
PosSvataPrasaNotes	Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 109: he cites Khedrubje for this designation.
PosVajrapada	the first three are causes of the later four
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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.

The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity.

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