Bhāvaviveka

Bhāvaviveka on the DRL

Classical Indian Authors

ལེགས་ལྡན་འབྱེད་

Wylie	legs ldan 'byed
Romanized Sanskrit	Bhāvaviveka

Other names

• ལེགས་ལྡན་
• སྐལ་ལྡན་

• legs ldan
• skal ldan

Dates

Birth:	500
Death:	578

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Svātantrika Madhyamaka

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P0RK301

Wiki Pages

• Bhāvaviveka on the DRL
• Bhāvaviveka on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Position:	Provisional
Notes:	"Bhāviveka contends that the teaching that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature implies merely that emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness, etc., abide in the minds of all sentient beings; it does not presuppose an inherent eternal perusa pervading everything." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 8.
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
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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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.

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

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

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).

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.