Sgam po pa
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As Chögyam Trungpa writes in his foreword: "It is in the flow of karma that this book materialized in 1959 on the very eve of the destruction of the spiritual land of Tibet. Professor Guenther was instrumental in making available the only commentary and guide in English to the bodhisattva tradition of Tibet, Japan, and China. The book remains the classic text of all Buddhists."
sGam.po.pa, who lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, was the organizer of the Kagyü order of Tibetan Buddhism.
Herbert V. Guenther is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
(Source: back cover)On the topic of this person
- Elizabeth Callahan Interview on Buddha-Nature; Elizabeth Callahan Interview on Buddha-Nature; Defining buddha-nature; Mahamudra; tha mal gyi shes pa; Terminology; Kagyu; Sgam po pa; āgantukamala; Disclosure model; Vajrayana; gotra; Sentient beings; 'jam mgon kong sprul; Karmapa, 3rd; Metaphors for buddha-nature; Elizabeth Callahan;  
- Ringu Tulku Interview on Buddha-Nature; Ringu Tulku Interview on Buddha-Nature; The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism; Third Turning; Defining buddha-nature; Debate(s); Sentient beings; Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra; 'jam mgon kong sprul; Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan; Sgam po pa; Ringu Tulku;
Notes
1. Following Paul Harrison, I employ the term 'buddhology' (written in lower case) to refer to theories on and conceptions of the nature of a "buddha" (i.e., Buddhahood), while reserving 'Buddhology' (capitalized) for an alternative designation for Buddhist Studies. See Harrison 1995, p. 24, n. 4.
2. In the present study I differentiate between a buddha (i.e., written in lower case and italicized), a title referring to any unspecified awakened person, and Buddha (i.e., written in roman and capitalized), a title referring to Śākyamuni Buddha or any other particular awakened person. (The same convention has been employed in the case of other titles: for example, bodhisattva versus Bodhisattva.) This differentiation is particularly important for the discussion of buddhology, or conceptions of Buddhahood, since some such conceptions (particularly the earlier ones) are clearly only associated with the person of the historical Buddha, while others, which commonly represent later developments in which a plurality of buddhas is affirmed, concern all awakened persons. To be sure, often there is no clear-cut borderline. In such cases I have employed both forms as alternatives.
As Chögyam Trungpa writes in his foreword: "It is in the flow of karma that this book materialized in 1959 on the very eve of the destruction of the spiritual land of Tibet. Professor Guenther was instrumental in making available the only commentary and guide in English to the bodhisattva tradition of Tibet, Japan, and China. The book remains the classic text of all Buddhists."
sGam.po.pa, who lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, was the organizer of the Kagyü order of Tibetan Buddhism.
Herbert V. Guenther is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
(Source: back cover)Philosophical positions of this person
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Other names
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Affiliations & relations
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- Error: no local variable "IncarnationsRaw" was set. · incarnation
- Error: no local variable "studentofRaw" was set. · teacher
- Error: no local variable "teacherofRaw" was set. · student
- Error: no local variable "associatedwebsiteRaw" was set. · websites
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