TA ra nA tha

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Classical Tibetan Authors

ཏཱ་ར་ནཱ་ཐ་

Wylie	tA ra nA tha
Romanized Sanskrit	Tāranātha

 

 

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Other names

• ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་

• kun dga' snying po

Dates

Birth:	1575
Death:	1634
Place of birth:	kha rag

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Wood
Animal	Pig
Rab Jyung	10

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Jonang

Is emanation of

Kunga Drolchok

Teachers

Buddhagupta · Karmapa, 9th

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link (P1428)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1428

Treasury of Lives Link

http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Taranatha/TBRC_P1428

Wiki Pages

• TA ra nA tha on the DRL
• TA ra nA tha on the LIB
• TA ra nA tha on the RTZ
• TA ra nA tha on the DNZ
• TA ra nA tha on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Position:	Definitive
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All beings have Buddha-nature
Position:	Yes
If "Qualified", explain:
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Which Wheel Turning
Position:	Third Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
Position:	Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
Position:	Zhentong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
Position:	Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
Position:	Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities)
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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.

The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.