Sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal

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Classical Tibetan Authors

སྒྲ་ཚད་པ་རིན་ཆེན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་

Wylie	sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal
English Phonetics	Dratsepa Rinchen Namgyal
Sort Name	Dratsepa Rinchen Namgyal

 

Other names

• སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་རིན་ཆེན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
• ཐུགས་སྲས་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་རིན་ཆེན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
• ཞྭ་ལུ་མཁན་ཆེན་༠༡་

• sems dpa' chen po rin chen rnam rgyal
• thugs sras lo tsA ba rin chen rnam rgyal
• zhwa lu mkhan chen 01

Alternate names

• Zhalu Khenchen, 1st
• Dratsepa

Dates

Birth:	1318
Death:	1388

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Earth
Animal	Horse
Rab Jyung	5

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

bka' gdams; sa skya

Teachers

Bu ston rin chen grub

Students

'jam dbyangs grags pa rgyal mtshan · Tsong kha pa · sa bzang 'phags pa gzhon nu blo gros

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P154

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Rinchen-Namgyel/TBRC_P154

Wiki Pages

• Sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal on the DRL
• Sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal on the LIB
• Sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

A prominent 14th century scholar associated with Kadam and Skya schools that was a student of Butön, as well as his biographer. He was also an early teacher of Tsongkhapa and is reported to have given the bodhisattva vow to Rongtön.

Expand to see this person's philosophical positions on Buddha-nature.

Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Position:	Provisional
Notes:	"Bu-ston and sGra-tshad-pa make of the RGV a provisional teaching, understanding Buddha-nature as what is literally stated in the RGV." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 343.
All beings have Buddha-nature
Position:	Qualified No
If "Qualified", explain:	Only Buddhas
Notes:	*"Taking the reverse position of the Gelugpas on this, both Butön and his student and commentator Dratsépa Rinchen Namgyal (1318–1388) identify the actual tathāgata heart as being solely the final fruition of buddhahood. As the latter says: The fully qualified sugata heart is the dharmakāya of a perfect buddha but never exists in the great mass of sentient beings." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, pp. 67-68. Bu-ston and his disciple sGra-tshad-pa assert that Buddha-nature should be understood only in its resultant aspect, namely as only the dharmakäya of a buddha." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 343. See also Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 73.
Which Wheel Turning
Position:	Third Turning
Notes:	Both second and third, though third is higher. Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 74.
Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Notes:	Deems zhentong as conventional truth and the lowest form of emptiness and rangtong as the ultimate truth. Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 79.
Promotes how many vehicles?
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
Position:	Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood
Notes:	*Bu-ston and his disciple sGra-tshad-pa assert that Buddha-nature should be understood only in its resultant aspect, namely as only the dharmakāya of a buddha." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 343. Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 73.
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.

Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

Literally, the "essence" or "heart of the Bliss Gone One(s)," a synonym for tathāgatagarbha that is likewise often rendered into English by the term buddha-nature. Though it is often back translated into Sanskrit as sugatagarbha, this term is not found in Sanskrit sources.

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

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.

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.

"Relative truth" or "conventional truth"; the erroneously perceived reality common to the unenlightened.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

"Ultimate truth" or "absolute truth"; the reality of things as they truly are.

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.