Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö

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PersonType Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö
MainNameTib རེད་མདའ་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་བློ་གྲོས་
MainNameWylie red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros
YearBirth 1349
YearDeath 1412
BornIn red mda' khab sor
TibDateGender Female
TibDateElement Earth
TibDateAnimal Ox
TibDateRabjung 6
TibDateDeathGender Male
TibDateDeathElement Water
TibDateDeathAnimal Dragon
TibDateDeathRabjung 7
ReligiousAffiliation Sakya
StudentOf Sabzang Mati Paṇchen Lodrö Gyaltsen  ·  Gyalse Tokme Zangpo  ·  Yakton Sangye Pal
TeacherOf Tsongkhapa  ·  mkhas grub rje
BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P60
Treasury of Lives https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Rendawa-Zhonnu-Lodro/8571
IsInGyatsa No
PosBuNayDefProv Provisional
PosBuNayDefProvNotes "Following Candraklrti and Sapen's Distinguishing the Three Vows, Rendawa argues that the tathāgata-essence teachings require interpretation as they cannot be accepted at face value." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 84.
PosWheelTurn Third Turning
PosWheelTurnNotes "As for whether the Uttaratantra is definitive or provisional, Rendawa does not explicitly identify it either as definitive or provisional in the texts that I have consulted. However, Khedrup, a student and a junior contemporary of Rendawa, mentions in his Presentation of the General Tantric Systems (rgyud sde spyi rnam), "Lama Jé [that is, Rendawa] asserts that the Uttaratantra is a commentarial work on last-wheel teachings, explicating the view of the Cittamātra School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 88.
PosYogaMadhya Yogācāra
PosYogaMadhyaNotes
  • "As for whether the Uttaratantra is definitive or provisional, Rendawa does not explicitly identify it either as definitive or provisional in the texts that I have consulted. However, Khedrup, a student and a junior contemporary of Rendawa, mentions in his Presentation of the General Tantric Systems (rgyud sde spyi rnam), "Lama Jé [that is, Rendawa] asserts that the Uttaratantra is a commentarial work on last-wheel teachings, explicating the view of the Cittamātra School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 88.
  • Though Rendawa's personal view is explained by Wangchuk as, "Rendawa argues that only Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka system presents the correct ultimate view, not Asanga's Cittamātra School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 87.
  • However there is a possibility that he had a change of heart later in life, as Wangchuk sites the Blue Annals as stating, "The Venerable Red-mda'-pa believed at first the Uttaratantra to be a Vijñānamātra work, and even composed a commentary from the standpoint of the followers of the Vijñānamātra school. Later, when he became a hermit, he used to sing: "It is impossible to differentiate between the presence and absence of this our Mind. The Buddha having perceived that it penetrated all living beings, as in the example of a subterranean treasure, or the womb of a pregnant woman, had proclaimed all living beings to be possessed of the Essence of the Sugata." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 88.
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