Ratnākaraśānti
Wylie | rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba |
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Romanized Sanskrit | Ratnākaraśānti |
- སློབ་དཔོན་ཤནྟི་པ་
- slob dpon shan+ti pa
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- Maitrīpa
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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: | There are apparently different takes on this issue, particularly whether he was a Yogācāran who accepted Madhyamaka or whether he was a Madhyamika who accepted Yogācāra:
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Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Notes: | Kano. K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness,p. 76. |
Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
Position: | Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature |
Notes: | "Ratnākaraśānti generally describes the tathāgata heart as being equivalent to naturally luminous mind, nondual self-awareness, and the perfect nature (which he considers to be an implicative negation and not a nonimplicative negation).[30] As for the ontological status of mind, his Prajñāpāramitopadeśa says that it does not exist as apprehender and apprehended, but the existence of the sheer lucidity of experience cannot be denied." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, p. 58. |
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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"Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature" 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.