On Jamgon Kongtrul and the Different Approaches to Understanding Buddha-Nature by Ringu Tulku
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On Jamgon Kongtrul and the Different Approaches to Understanding Buddha-Nature by Ringu Tulku
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Ringu Tulku discusses Jamgön Kongtrul's Rime, or nonpartisan, approach to buddha-nature as opposed to the typical three-fold Tibetan approach of negating others' views, positing one's own view, and engaging in further debate. Such an approach, he suggests, while important, tends to lead to dogmatic views. He goes on to describe how the differences in views of buddha-nature are generally subtle differences, different ways to talk about the same thing. He continues by explaining how, according to Kongtrul, if one is engaged in analyzing reality, then the rangtong approach is best. And if one is trying to describe the experience of buddha-nature, then the zhentong approach works to accomplish this. In this way Kongtrul brings these two approaches together and sees them as two different ways of describing the same thing.
About the video
| Featuring | Ringu Tulku |
|---|---|
| Creator | Tsadra Foundation |
| Director | Perman, M. |
| Producer | Tsadra Foundation |
| Event | Ringu Tulku Interview on Buddha-Nature (10 October 2019, Tsadra Foundation, Boulder) |
| Related Website | Buddha-Nature |
| Creation Date | 10 October 2019 |
| Citation | Ringu Tulku. “On Jamgon Kongtrul and the Different Approaches to Understanding Buddha-Nature.” Interview by Marcus Perman. Tsadra Foundation Research Department, October 10, 2019. Video, 9:10. https://youtu.be/IVcFzZ7r-co. |
