Sthiramati

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Sthiramati
MainNameTib	བློ་གྲོས་བརྟན་པ་
MainNameWylie	blo gros brtan pa
MainNameDev	स्थिरमति
MainNameSkt	sthiramati
MainNamePin	Anhui
AltNamesTib	སློབ་དཔོན་བློ་བརྟན་
AltNamesWylie	slob dpon blo brtan
YearBirth	circa 6th cent.
StudentOf	Vasubandhu
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Indian Buddhist philosopher associated particularly with [the] Yogäcära school. His dates are uncertain (leading one scholar to posit three figures with this name), but he is generally placed in the sixth century, although he is said to have been a disciple of both Vasubandhu and Guṇamati. Sthiramati seems to have been primarily based in Valabhī, but may have also studied at Nālandā. He wrote a number of important commentaries on such Yogācāra works as the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra and Madhyāntavibhāga of Maitreyanātha and Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā. (Source: "Sthiramati." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 859. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

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).