Bella Chao

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bio	Bella Chao received her MA from Rangjung Yeshe Institute in 2023. Her thesis is titled "Sakya Paṇḍita's Ritual for Generating the Mind According to the Madhyamaka Tradition (Dbu ma lugs kyi sems bskyed kyi cho ga)."
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The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.

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.