Chomden Rikpai Raldri

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Bcom ldan rig pa'i ral gri

PersonType Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon Chomden Rikpai Raldri
MainNameTib བཅོམ་ལྡན་རིག་པའི་རལ་གྲི་
MainNameWylie bcom ldan rig pa'i ral gri
AltNamesTib བཅོམ་ལྡན་རལ་གྲི་  ·  བཅོམ་ལྡན་རིགས་པའི་རལ་གྲི་  ·  རིག་རལ་  ·  དར་མ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
AltNamesWylie bcom ldan ral gri  ·  bcom ldan rigs pa'i ral gri  ·  rig ral  ·  dar ma rgyal mtshan
AltNamesOther Rikrel  ·  bCom-ldan-ral-gri
YearBirth 1227
YearDeath 1305
BornIn lho kha (dbus)
TibDateGender Female
TibDateElement Fire
TibDateAnimal Pig
TibDateRabjung 4
TibDateDeathGender Female
TibDateDeathElement Wood
TibDateDeathAnimal Snake
TibDateDeathRabjung 5
ReligiousAffiliation Kadam
ClassicalProfAff snar thang dgon pa
StudentOf mchims nam mkha' grags  ·  skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims
TeacherOf skyi ston shAkya 'bum  ·  snye mdo kun dga' bzang po
BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1217
Treasury of Lives https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Chomden-Rigpai-Reldri/TBRC_P1217
IsInGyatsa No
BnwShortPersonBio Famous Kadam scholar connected with Nartang (snar thang) monastery. His collected works are said to have once filled sixteen volumes and includes the earliest extant Tibetan commentary on the Uttaratantra that cites both tantric and sutric sources to corroborate the claims made in the treatise.
PosBuNayDefProv Definitive
PosBuNayDefProvNotes "In the opening part of his commentary, bCom-ldan-ral-gri defines the RGV as a treatise that imparts the definitive teaching of the Mahāyāna... bCom-ldan-ral-gri further characterizes the doctrine of Buddha-nature as definitive." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, pp. 314-315.
PosAllBuddha Yes
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes "Rikrel, in contrast to Sapen and other scholars at Sakya monastery, argues that all sentient beings have an inherent buddha endowed with enlightened qualities within." Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 29.
PosWheelTurn Third Turning
PosWheelTurnNotes According to Wangchuk, Tsering, "Rikrel not only situates the Uttaratantra within sutric Mahāyāna literature, but he also includes it in the last wheel as a work expounding on both sutras and tantric literature." The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 29.
  • However, Kano suggests his view of RGV relates to both 2nd and 3rd turnings. "In his Byams pa dang 'grel ba'i chos kyi byung tshul, bCom-ldan-ral-gri asserts that the teaching of the RGV contradicts neither the Two Truths doctrine of Madhyamaka nor the Yogācāra doctrine of the Threefold Intrinsic Nature, while the other four treatises of Maitreya teach either one or the other of these two doctrines (but not both at the same time)." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 342.
PosZhenRang Zhentong
PosZhenRangNotes This assertion is applied retroactively since he predates the category.
  • "bCom-ldan-ral-gri of sNar-thang monastery is, according to Tāranātha, a forerunner of the gzhan stong tradition established by Dol-po-pa. bCom-ldan-ral-gri, in his RGV commentary, does not systematically teach the gzhan stong doctrine (and is not, of course, aware that he would later be considered a gzhan stong forerunner), but he does expound some fragmentary elements that possibly fink him to the gzhan stong position of Dol-po-pa". Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 342.
  • "Given Rikrel's interpretation of the Uttaratantra, it is no wonder that later Jonang scholars would retrospectively include him in the Jonang lineage of other-emptiness transmission, even though he does not employ terms such as "other-emptiness" and "all-basis-gnosis" (kun gzhi ye shes), which would become crucial for Dölpopa's presentation of tathāgata-essence." Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 30.
PosAnalyticMedit Meditative Tradition
PosAnalyticMeditNotes Though perhaps not explicitly fitting into this category, Kano states,
  • "His understanding of Buddha-nature is compatible with that of the tradition of bTsan Kha-bo-che, which defines Buddha-nature as the “natural luminous mind,” and also in accordance with Dol-po-pa’s stance, which sees the Buddha-nature teaching being echoed in tantric literature." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 342.
  • And, "...it is obvious that bCom-ldan-ral-gri does not follow rNgog’s reasoning that leads to identifying Buddha-nature with emptiness." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 316.
PosEmptyLumin Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature
PosEmptyLuminNotes "In his commentary on RGV I.3, bCom-ldan-ral-gri defines Buddha-nature as “the natural luminous mind that is inseparable from dharmatā,” and, glossing RGV 1.153, states: “the ultimate truth, which is unconditioned and primordially existent by itself, is the element (i.e. Buddha-nature).” Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 342. (see also Ibid. p. 315.)
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