Hong Luo at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium

From Buddha-Nature

< Media

LibraryMultimediaHong Luo at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium
Line 36: Line 36:
 
|link= https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2945134
 
|link= https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2945134
 
|header= Dharmakīrti: ''Pramāṇavārttikakārikā''
 
|header= Dharmakīrti: ''Pramāṇavārttikakārikā''
−
|image=  https://commons.tsadra.org/images-commons/d/d0/Sutra.jpg
+
|image=  https://commons.tsadra.org/images-commons/d/db/Teaching_Mudra_2_reduced_opacity.png
 
|content= "Commentary on Valid Knowledge", a commentary on Dignāga's ''Pramāṇasamuccaya'' and Dharmakīrti's most famous work.
 
|content= "Commentary on Valid Knowledge", a commentary on Dignāga's ''Pramāṇasamuccaya'' and Dharmakīrti's most famous work.
 
|watermark= ADARSHA
 
|watermark= ADARSHA

Revision as of 22:40, 21 October 2020

Hong Luo at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium - 11 of 23
Video
Video
Previous Video
Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia
Next Video
Description
Hong Luo discusses Ratnākaraśānti’s understanding of self-awareness (svasaṃvedana/svasaṃvitti) and its relationship to buddha-nature in his Prajñāpāramitopadeśa.

Abstract from the Author

Observing the Link between Self-awareness and Buddha Nature in Ratnākaraśānti’s Prajñāpāramitopadeśa
Self-awareness (svasaṃvedana/svasaṃvitti) plays a central role in Ratnākaraśānti’s doctrinal system; it is the locus of prakāśa. Focusing on the six summarizing verses at the end of the yathāvadbhāvikatāyāṃ cintāmayī prajñā section in the Prajñāpāramitopadeśa, this paper aims to (1) present Ratnākaraśānti’s understanding of self-awareness as sketched in these verses, (2) trace the possible sources of his sketch, and (3) observe the link between svasaṃvedana and buddha-nature in his doctrinal system.

Sources Mentioned

{{#arraymap: Mahāyānābhidharmasūtra;Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna;Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra;Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra;Ri chos nges don rgya mtsho | ; | @@@ | | }}
ADARSHA
Ratnakaraśānti: Prajñāpāramitopadeśa
A manual of Yogācāra philosophy and practice presenting Ratnakaraśānti's unique theories.
external link
ADARSHA
Asaṅga: Mahāyānasaṃgraha
"Summary of the Great Vehicle," the most complete presentation of Yogācāra theory and practice.
external link
ADARSHA
Vasubandhu: Mahāyānasaṃgrahabhāṣya
Commentary on the Mahāyānasaṃgraha by Asaṅga, which was later translated into Chinese.
external link
ADARSHA
Sthiramati: Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā
Commentary on the Madhyāntavibhāga by Maitreya/Asaṅga.
external link
ADARSHA
Dharmakīrti: Pramāṇavārttikakārikā
"Commentary on Valid Knowledge", a commentary on Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya and Dharmakīrti's most famous work.
external link
ADARSHA
Nāgārjuna: Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
"Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning"; one of the most famous and widely cited works attributed to Nāgārjuna. It is preserved in Chinese and Tibetan.
external link
ADARSHA
Sthiramati: Triṃśikābhāṣya
This text is Sthiramati's commentary on the "Thirty" (Triṃśikā), a text in verse by the Yogācāra master Vasubandu.
external link
ADARSHA
Sthiramati: Pañcaskandhaprakaraṇavaibhāṣya
Commentary on Vasubandhu's Explanation of the Five Aggregates.
external link

People Mentioned

{{#arraymap: Ratnākaraśānti;Paramārtha;Sthiramati;Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen | ; | @@@ |
@@@
| }}

About the video

Featuring {{#arraymap: Luo, H. ; @@@ , 

}}

Creator {{#arraymap: University of Vienna; Tsadra Foundation ; @@@ @@@ , 

}}

Event Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia (18 July 2019, University of Vienna, Austria)
Related Website Buddha-Nature Project
Video Web Location Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia
Creation Date 18 July 2019
Citation Luo, Hong. "Observing the Link between Self-awareness and Buddha Nature in Ratnākaraśānti’s Prajñāpāramitopadeśa." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 39:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5iFwWLJUAc.

<ul><li>Empty strings are not accepted.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "BuNayTopicTags" (as page type) with input value "{{#arraymap:Ratnākaraśānti" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "BuNayTopicTags" (as page type) with input value "prabhāsvaracitta|" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "BuNayTopicTags" (as page type) with input value "|@@@|@@@|" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "BuNayTopicTags" (as page type) with input value "}}" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.</li></ul>

{{#arraymap:Hong Luo at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Hong Luo at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Observing the Link between Self-awareness and Buddha Nature in Ratnākaraśānti’s Prajñāpāramitopadeśa;

|; |@@@

|

| }}

{{#arraymap:Library Items;Multimedia;Videos; ; |;|@@@||}}

svasaṃvedana - An important term for the Yogācāra that refers to a consciousness of consciousness itself, or how one knows that they know something. It was a hotly debated topic that was disputed by followers of the Madhyamaka. In Tibet it would later become a common Dzogchen term, though with the entirely different meaning of one's own innate awareness (rig pa), a crucial concept in the Dzogchen teachings. Skt. स्वसंवेदन Tib. རང་རིག་ Ch. 自證分

svasaṃvedana - An important term for the Yogācāra that refers to a consciousness of consciousness itself, or how one knows that they know something. It was a hotly debated topic that was disputed by followers of the Madhyamaka. In Tibet it would later become a common Dzogchen term, though with the entirely different meaning of one's own innate awareness (rig pa), a crucial concept in the Dzogchen teachings. Skt. स्वसंवेदन Tib. རང་རིག་ Ch. 自證分

prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt. प्रज्ञा Tib. ཤེས་རབ་ Ch. 般若

A lost Yogācāra sūtra, which is preserved only in a few quotes in other Yogācāra texts.

The Awakening of Faith is a key source text for buddha-nature theory in East Asian Buddhism.

Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt. महायान Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། Ch. 大乘

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

'jog sgom - This is the meditation of directly observing the mind without engaging in any analytical or intellectual activity. (Thrangu Rinpoche, Transcending Ego, 102). Skt. स्थाप्यभावना Tib. འཇོག་སྒོམ་

prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

Yogācāra - 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). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

trisvabhāva - According to the Yogācāra school, all phenomena can be divided into three natures or characteristics: the imaginary nature (parikalpitasvabhāva), the dependent nature (paratantrasvabhāva), and the perfect or absolute nature (pariniṣpannasvabhāva). Skt. त्रिस्वभाव Tib. རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་

ālayavijñāna - A neutral base consciousness that is posited as the storehouse for the seeds of past karmic actions in which they remain in a latent state until the circumstances arise for them to ripen as karmic consequences. Skt. आलयविज्ञान Tib. ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་ཤེས་ Ch. 藏識,阿賴耶識

prabhāsvaracitta - The luminous aspect of mind that is often contrasted with its empty aspect. It is often used figuratively to reference the cognizant, or knowing, aspect of mind and sometimes more literally as the natural luminosity of mind and luminous wisdom that is experienced in meditation. Skt. प्रभास्वरचित्त Tib. འོད་གསལ་གྱི་སེམས་ Ch. 光明心

Retrieved from "https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Media/Hong_Luo_at_the_2019_Tathāgatagarbha_Symposium&oldid=54653"