Prajñāpāramitā, Indian "gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong

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* 1. The Indian texts
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1.1. The exegetical source for the three natures in the prajnaparamita sutras:
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the "Maitreya Chapter" 19
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1.2. Vasubandhu and Sthiramati on the three kinds of phenomena in the
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"Maitreya Chapter" and the three natures 24
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1.3. The BrhattTka 26
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1.4. The AmnayanusarinT 47
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1.5. The SatasahasriteprajMparamitabrhaUTka 116
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1.6. Other Indian commentaries on the prajnaparamita sutras and the AA 122
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1.7. Ratnakarasanti's Prajhaparamitopadesa, Madhyamakalamkaropadesa,
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Madhyamakalamkaravrtti, and Sutrasamuccayabhasya 133
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1.8. Vinltadeva's Trimsikafika on 25a 158
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1.9. Sajjana's Mahayanottaratantrasastropadesa 160
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2. The transmission of the five works of Maitreya and early gzhan stong
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in Tibet 163
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3. Early gzhan stong texts in Tibet
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3.1. Kun dga' grol mchog's synopsis of Btsan kha bo che's gzhan stong 175
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3.2. The Ye shes kyi jog sa 180
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3.3. The Theg chen rgyud bla ma 'igdamspa 192
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4. Conclusion 195
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Abbreviations 199
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Bibliography 199
 
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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)

Citation 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 - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt. प्रज्ञापारमिता Tib. ཤེར་ཕྱིན་,ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多

gzhan stong - 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. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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