Ratnākaraśānti

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Classical Indian Authors

རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་

Wylie	rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba
Romanized Sanskrit	Ratnākaraśānti

Alternate names

• Śāntipa

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

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Vikramaśilā

Students

Maitrīpa

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Links

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https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P0RK153

Wiki Pages

• Ratnākaraśānti on the DRL
• Ratnākaraśānti on the LIB
• Ratnākaraśānti on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
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All beings have Buddha-nature
Position:	Qualified No
If "Qualified", explain:	He accepts a pure nature that is the five wisdom's whihc are possessed, but obscured in sentient beings, but in terms of buddha-nature as a seed, only bodhisattvas have it.
Notes:	"...he suggests that only bodhisattvas have Buddha-nature, that is, the spiritual disposition to become a buddha, whereas others do not." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 75.
Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
Position:	Yogācāra
Notes:	Nirākāra Vijñānavāda, though as Kano states: "he defines the Madhyamaka position in accordance with the Madhyäntavibhäga's, description of the “middle way.” Indeed, he repeats throughout his works that the doctrine of the Mädhyamikas and that of the Yogäcäras are completely compatible." Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 73.
Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
Position:	3
Notes:	Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness,p. 76.
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.

A seed, commonly used figuratively in the sense of something which has the potential to develop or grow, and likewise as the basic cause for this development or growth.

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

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.