Gsang phu ba blo gros mtshungs med

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Author

གསང་ཕུ་བ་བློ་གྲོས་མཚུངས་མེད་

Wylie	gsang phu ba blo gros mtshungs med

Other names

• གཉལ་བ་བློ་གྲོས་མཚུངས་མེད་

• gnyal ba blo gros mtshungs med

Dates

Birth:	14th Century

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Students

mkhas grub rje · g.yag sde paN chen

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Links

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https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P63

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/blo-gros-mtshungs-med/P63

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• Gsang phu ba blo gros mtshungs med on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Position:	Definitive
Notes:	Wangchuk, T. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows p. 31
All beings have Buddha-nature
Position:	Yes
If "Qualified", explain:
Notes:	"He claims that tathägata-essence exists in all sentient beings in a fully enlightened form. He states that: the dharma-body is dharma-reality indivisible from [buddha] qualities. Since there is no objection to the fact that the dharma-body exists pervasively in all sentient beings, in the manner of one entity; it is unacceptable to present it, [i.e., the existence of the dharma-body in sentient beings] as [merely] imputed." Wangchuk, T. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows p. 32
Which Wheel Turning
Position:	Third Turning
Notes:	Wangchuk, T. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows p. 31
Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
Position:	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?
Position:	Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya
Notes:	Wangchuk, T. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows p. 32
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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"Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya" is not in the list (Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature, Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity, Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra), Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.

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.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.

The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.