Swanson, P.

Swanson, P. on the DRL

Professors

Paul L. Swanson

Dates

Birth:	1951
Place of birth:	Tokyo, Japan

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/staff/pswanson/

About

Translates from:	Japanese
Translates to:	English

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Permanent Fellow, Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Nanzan University

Current projects

• Translating the Mo-ho chih-kuan 『摩詞止観 and other T’ien-t’ai texts into English

• Table of Contents for complete Mo-ho chih-kuan.
  

Education

Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, minor in Japanese; M.A. in Eastern Thought and Religion, Sophia University; B.A. in Western Philosophy, Bethel College, St. Paul Minnesota

Biographical Information

Paul L. Swanson is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, and Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Letters of Nanzan University, in Nagoya, Japan. He is editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies and has published on Tiantai/Tendai Buddhism and other aspects of East Asian Buddhism and religion. (Source Accessed June 13, 2019)

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Links

Wiki Pages

• Swanson, P. on the DRL
• Swanson, P. on the LIB
• Swanson, P. on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs 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?
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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.

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.