Cole, A.

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Alan Cole

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

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Website:	Faculty Website // Curriculum Vitae

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College (1996-2012)

PhD University

University of Michigan

Education

Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan (1994). Dissertation: "Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism." M.A. in Tibetan Buddhism/Religious Studies, University of Virginia (1985). B.A. in Religious Studies, Middlebury College, Vt. (1985)

Biographical Information

Alan Cole is the author of a number of books in the field of Religious/Buddhist Studies, including Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (Stanford University Press 1998), Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature (University of California Press 2005), Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism (University of California Press 2009), Fetishizing Tradition: Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist and Christian Narratives (SUNY Press, 2015), and, most recently, Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature (University of California Press, 2016). He was Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College from 2006–2012 and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore from 2013–2014. (Source Accessed Jul 21, 2020)

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• Cole, A. on the DRL
• Cole, A. on the LIB
• Cole, A. on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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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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State University of New York

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.