Mkhas grub rje

Mkhas grub rje on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

མཁས་གྲུབ་རྗེ་

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Other names

• དགེ་ལེགས་དཔལ་བཟང་
• མཁས་གྲུབ་རྗེ་དགེ་ལེགས་དཔལ་བཟང་
• མཁས་གྲུབ་དགེ་ལེགས་དཔལ་བཟང་
• པཎ་ཆེན་བླ་མ་༠༡་

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• paN chen bla ma 01

Alternate names

• Panchen Lama, 1st

Dates

Birth:	1385
Death:	1438
Place of birth:	gtsang

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Wood
Animal	Ox
Rab Jyung	6

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

dge lugs

Teachers

Tsong kha pa · Red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P55

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Khedrubje-Gelek-Pelzang/8027

Treasury of Lives Excerpt

Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource

https://www.himalayanart.org/items/56

Wiki Pages

• Mkhas grub rje on the DRL
• Mkhas grub rje on the LIB
• Mkhas grub rje 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:	"However, Khedrup, a student and a junior contemporary of Rendawa, mentions in his Presentation of the General Tantric Systems (rgyud sde spyi rnam), "Lama Jé [that is, Rendawa] asserts that [the Uttaratantra] is a commentarial work on last-wheel teachings, explicating the view of the Cittamätra School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 88.
All beings have Buddha-nature
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If "Qualified", explain:
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Which Wheel Turning
Position:	Third Turning
Notes:	"However, Khedrup, a student and a junior contemporary of Rendawa, mentions in his Presentation of the General Tantric Systems (rgyud sde spyi rnam), "Lama Jé [that is, Rendawa] asserts that [the Uttaratantra] is a commentarial work on last-wheel teachings, explicating the view of the Cittamätra School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 88.
Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
Position:	Yogācāra
Notes:	"However, Khedrup, a student and a junior contemporary of Rendawa, mentions in his Presentation of the General Tantric Systems (rgyud sde spyi rnam), "Lama Jé [that is, Rendawa] asserts that [the Uttaratantra] is a commentarial work on last-wheel teachings, explicating the view of the Cittamätra School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 88.
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.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

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.