Abhayākaragupta

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Classical Indian Authors

འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་

Wylie	'jigs med 'byung gnas
Romanized Sanskrit	Abhayākara

Other names

• ཨ་བྷ་ཡཱ་ཀ་ར་གུཔྟ་
• འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་སྦས་པ་
• པཎྜི་ཏ་ཨ་བྷ་ཡཱ་ཀ་ར་གུཔྟ་

• a b+ha yA ka ra gup+ta
• 'jigs med 'byung gnas sbas pa
• paN+Di ta a b+ha yA ka ra gup+ta

Alternate names

• Abhayākaragupta
• Paṇḍita Abhayākaragupta

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

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• Abhayākaragupta on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
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All beings have Buddha-nature
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If "Qualified", explain:
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Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
Position:	Madhyamaka
Notes:	Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 109; he cites Ruegg for this, and agrees.
Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
Position:	1
Notes:	Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 110.
Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
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Notes:	Buddha-nature is equivalent to selflessness of the dharmatā. This is not the same as b-n = emptiness. Kano explains that this is a precursor to that position. Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 111 et passim.
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
Position:	Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་)
Notes:	Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 109: he cites Khedrubje for this designation.
Causal nature of the vajrapāda
Position:	the first three are causes of the later four

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

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).

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.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.