David Higgins

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bio	David Higgins is a doctoral candidate at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in the Section de Langues et Civilisations Orientales and a Sessional Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. His current research concerns the phenomenological distinction between dualistic mind (sems) and primordial awareness (ye shes) as it has been articulated and defended in the Tibetan rNying ma tradition from the 8th to 14th centuries. His dissertation will offer a critical study of rNying ma views on mind and attempt to clarify their complex relationship to earlier Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and Vajrayāna views.
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Full Name

David Higgins

Affiliation

Doctoral Candidate - University of Lausanne - Switzerland

University of Victoria, Canada

Education

University of Lausanne

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David Higgins is a doctoral candidate at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in the Section de Langues et Civilisations Orientales and a Sessional Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. His current research concerns the phenomenological distinction between dualistic mind (sems) and primordial awareness (ye shes) as it has been articulated and defended in the Tibetan rNying ma tradition from the 8th to 14th centuries. His dissertation will offer a critical study of rNying ma views on mind and attempt to clarify their complex reltionship to earlier Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and Vajrayāna views.

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.

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).