Mahājana
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Mahājana(b. ca. 11th/12th century - )
Mahājana was a Kashmiri paṇḍita who was active around the 11th-12th centuries. According to Donald Lopez, one of his main contributions was his commentary on the Heart Sutra, Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayārthaparijñāna (Complete Understanding of the Meaning of the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom). According to Lopez, "Mahājana's commentary is the only work ascribed to him in the Tibetan canons; he is listed as the translator of nine works, suggesting that he visited Tibet, probably in the late eleventh or early twelfth century.[13] His commentary reflects an author of a decidedly Yogācāra persuasion . . ." (Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sūtra [New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996], 16). Mahājana is also reported to have been one of several panditas who taught Atiśa the Perfection of Wisdom and secret mantra. (Sources of Tibetan Tradition, 2013, 178)
Notes
13. The colophon of his commentary states that he collaborated in its translation with Seng ge rgyal mtshan, who was a student of Ngog bLo ldan shes rab (1059–1109).
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Maitreya: Dharmadharmatāvibhāga
One of the Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya (byams chos sde lnga). This work exists only in Tibetan translation, of which there are two versions: the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga (chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa) presented in prose, and the Dharmadharmatāvibhāgakārikā (chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa) presented in verse.
"The text explains saṃsāra (= dharma) and the nirvāṇa (= dharmatā) attained by the śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattva; like the Madhyāntavibhāga, it uses the three-nature (trisvabhāva) terminology to explain that, because there is no object or subject, the transcendent is beyond conceptualization. It presents the paths leading to transformation of the basis (aśrayaparāvṛtti), and enumerates ten types of tathatā (suchness)." (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, p. 244)
Dharmadharmatāvibhāga;byams chos sde lnga;Maitreya;Maitreya;བྱམས་པ་;byams pa;'phags pa byams pa;byams pa'i mgon po;mgon po byams pa;ma pham pa;འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པ་;བྱམས་པའི་མགོན་པོ་;མགོན་པོ་བྱམས་པ་;མ་ཕམ་པ་;Ajita; Śāntibhadra;Badantabarma;Bharohamtung;Chiterwa;Hangdu Karpo;Mahākarunika;Tsaham Pandita Zhiwa Zangpo (zhi ba bzang po);Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འཚོ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་བ་;Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba;Mahājana;Lotsawa Senge Gyaltsen;ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་སེང་གེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན;lo tsA ba seng ge rgyal mtshan;sgra bsgyur gyi lo tsA ba seng ge rgyal mtshan;seng ge rgyal mtshan;chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed pa;ཆོས་དང་ཆོས་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ།;Distinguishing Phenomena and Their Nature;Dharmadharmatāvibhāga;धर्मधर्मताविभाग;ཆོས་དང་ཆོས་ཉིད་རྣམ་འབྱེད།
Prajñāpāramitā, Indian "gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong
In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is an ongoing debate about whether the gzhan stong system was "invented" by Tibetans, in particular by Dol po pa Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1292–1361), or whether there are Indian precursors of that view. Here, I will (1) discuss evidence for a number of typical positions of the gzhan stong system in several Indian texts, (2) provide a sketch of the transmission of the five works of Maitreya from India to Tibet and the beginning of a Tibetan gzhan stong tradition preceding Dol po pa, and (3) trace some typical gzhan stong assertions in a few early Tibetan works before Dol po pa that are considered by Tibetan writers as belonging to the gzhan stong system. (Brunnhölzl, introduction, 9)
Brunnhölzl, Karl. Prajñāpāramitā, Indian "gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 74. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2011.
Brunnhölzl, Karl. Prajñāpāramitā, Indian "gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 74. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2011.;Prajñāpāramitā, Indian "gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;History of buddha-nature in India;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;gzhan stong;Karl Brunnhölzl; Prajñāpāramitā, Indian "gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong;Daṃṣṭrasena;Vasubandhu;Jagaddalanivāsin;Vimalamitra;Praśāstrasena;Mahājana;Ratnākaraśānti;Kun dga' grol mchog;Skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims
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