Jayānanda

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Jayānanda
MainNameTib	རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་དགའ་
MainNameWylie	rgyal ba kun dga'
MainNameSkt	Jayānanda
AltNamesTib	ཁ་ཆེའི་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཛཱ་ཡ་ཨ་ནནྡ་
AltNamesWylie	kha che'i paN+Di ta dzA ya a nan+da
YearBirth	11th century
YearDeath	12th century
TeacherOf	rma bya byang chub brtson 'grus
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P4CZ15242
IsInGyatsa	No
PosBuNayDefProv	Provisional
PosBuNayDefProvNotes	"Jayānanda is arguably the first scholar who indicated that the Uttaratantra is provisional within the Tibetan intellectual landscape." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 14. "...He states that Buddha-nature was taught in order to attract those who fear emptiness. Kazuo Kano, Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, pp. 150-151.
PosAllBuddha	Qualified Yes
PosAllBuddhaNote	Since he equates the teachings on buddha-nature as an expedient way to teach emptiness, all beings have it because emptiness is pervasive.
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes	Kazuo Kano, Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 151.
PosYogaMadhya	Yogācāra
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	Though he was a follower of Madhyamaka, he likely equates the buddha-nature teachings with Yogācāra, as he deems both to be provisional.
PosVehicles	1
PosVehiclesNotes	Kazuo Kano, Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 150. "One problem with Jayānanda’s position is that, having asserted that the Buddha-nature doctrine is provisional, he utilizes it as an authoritative teaching for establishing the single-vehicle theory, which he takes to be a definitive teaching." Kazuo Kano, Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 152.
PosEmptyLumin	Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path
PosEmptyLuminNotes	"...He states that Buddha-nature was taught in order to attract those who fear emptiness. Kazuo Kano, Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, pp. 150-151.
PosSvataPrasa	Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)
PosSvataPrasaNotes	Kazuo Kano, Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 148. Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 14.
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