Grosnick, W.

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William Henry Grosnick

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Rab Jyung

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About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

La Salle College; Department of Religious Studies

PhD University

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Education

Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1979). Dissertation: "The Zen Master Dōgen's Understanding of the Buddha-nature in Light of the Historical Development of the Buddha Nature Concept in India, China, and Japan."

Biographical Information

Williiam Grosnick, Assistant Professor of Religion at La Salle College, Philadelphia, received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. His articles on the Buddhist Tathāgatagarbha tradition have appeared in The Journal of the International Association for Buddhist Studies and the Proceedings of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan. (Source Accessed Jan 15, 2020)

Publications

• Grosnick, William H. “The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra.” In Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 92-3.

• Grosnick, William H. "Nonorigination and Nirvāṇa in the Early Tathāgatagarbha Literature." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 4, no. 2 (1981): 33–43.

• Grosnick, William H. 1989. “The Categories of T'i, Hsiang, and Yung: Evidence that Parmārtha Composed the Awakening of Faith.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 12, 1:65–92.

• Grosnick, William G. "Buddha Nature as Myth." In Buddha Nature: A Festschrift in Honor of Minoru Kiyota, edited by Paul J. Griffiths and John P. Keenan, 65–74. Tokyo: Buddhist Books International, 1990.

• Grosnick, William. "Cittaprakṛti and Ayoniśomanaskāra in the Ratnagotravibhāga: A Precedent for the Hsin-Nien Distinction of The Awakening of Faith." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 6, no. 2 (1983): 35–47. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/view/8605/2512.

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Buddha Nature Project

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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
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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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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.