Ratnākaraśānti
PersonType | Category:Classical Indian Authors |
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MainNameTib | རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་ |
MainNameWylie | rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba |
MainNameDev | रत्नाकरशान्ति |
MainNameSkt | Ratnākaraśānti |
AltNamesTib | སློབ་དཔོན་ཤནྟི་པ་ |
AltNamesWylie | slob dpon shan+ti pa |
AltNamesOther | Śāntipa |
ReligiousAffiliation | Vikramaśilā |
TeacherOf | Maitrīpa |
BDRC | https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P0RK153 |
IsInGyatsa | No |
BnwShortPersonBio | A circa 11th Century Indian scholar that was one of the gate-keepers at the great monastic university of Vikramaśīla, as well as being included in the list of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas under the name Śāntipa. He was a prolific author and proponent of the Yogācāra school that was outspoken in his attempts to harmonize this school of thought with the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Though the majority of his known works, many of which were preserved in the Tibetan cannon, covered topics related to Tantra. |
PosAllBuddha | Qualified No |
PosAllBuddhaNote | He accepts a pure nature that is the five wisdom's which are possessed, but obscured in sentient beings, but in terms of buddha-nature as a seed, only bodhisattvas have it. |
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes | "...he suggests that only bodhisattvas have Buddha-nature, that is, the spiritual disposition to become a buddha, whereas others do not." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 75. |
PosYogaMadhya | Yogācāra |
PosYogaMadhyaNotes | There are apparently different takes on this issue, particularly whether he was a Yogācāran who accepted Madhyamaka or whether he was a Mādhyamika who accepted Yogācāra:
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PosVehicles | 3 |
PosVehiclesNotes | Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 76. |
PosEmptyLumin | Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature |
PosEmptyLuminNotes | "Ratnākaraśānti generally describes the tathāgata heart as being equivalent to naturally luminous mind, nondual self-awareness, and the perfect nature (which he considers to be an implicative negation and not a nonimplicative negation). As for the ontological status of mind, his Prajñāpāramitopadeśa says that it does not exist as apprehender and apprehended, but the existence of the sheer lucidity of experience cannot be denied." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, p. 58. |
Other wikis |
"Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature" is not in the list (Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature, Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity, Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra), Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.