]> 2026-10-15T12:36:57-04:00 People/Btsan kha bo che 0 en དྲི་མེད་ཤེས་རབ་ dri med shes rab Tsen Tradition The namesake of the Tsen Tradition (''btsan lugs'') of the exegesis of the ''Uttaratantra'', commonly referred to as the Meditation Tradition (''sgom lugs''). He travelled to Kashmir when he was in his mid-50's in 1076 along with Ngok Lotsāwa and others to study with various scholars, including Sajjana. With Zu Gawai Dorje acting as his translator, he famously requested instructions on the ''Uttaratantra'' from Sajjana in order to make it his "death practice" ('''chi chos''). These instructions became the basis for the Tsen Tradition, which was an important progenitor for later interpretations of the ''Uttaratantra'', such as those associated with Zhentong and Mahāmudrā. He returned to Tibet in 1089, some two or three years before Ngok, and thus was likely the first Tibetan to begin propagating the teachings he had received from Sajjana on the ''Five Treatises of Maitreya'' on Tibetan soil. Person People File:Teaching_Mudra_2.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/f/f6/Teaching_Mudra_2.jpg true false true true false Tsen Khawoche;བཙན་ཁ་བོ་ཆེ་;btsan kha bo che;Btsan kha bo che false Tsen Khawoche བཙན་ཁ་བོ་ཆེ་ btsan kha bo che Teaching_Mudra_2.jpg Btsan kha bo che དྲི་མེད་ཤེས་རབ་ dri med shes rab Tsen Khawoche བཙན་ཁ་བོ་ཆེ་ btsan kha bo che Classical Tibetan Authors Yes Karl Brunnhölzl cites ShAkya mchog ldan: "The sugata heart is the naturally pure wisdom, luminous by nature, that pervades everyone from buddhas to sentient beings." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', p. 124. Meditative Tradition *"These two traditions of rngog and btsan were respectively called the "analytical tradition" (''thos bsam gyi lugs'') and "meditative tradition" (''sgom lugs'')." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 242 *"The lineage through Ngog Lotsāwa is often called "the exegetical tradition of the dharma works of Maitreya" (''byams chos bshad lugs''), while Dsen Kawoché’s transmissions represent "the meditative tradition of the dharma works of Maitreya" (''byams chos sgom lugs'')." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', p. 123. Definitive Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature *[[Kano. K.]], ''[[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]]'', p. 242, footnote 4. Van der Kuijp via Shakya mchog ldan. *Mathes cites Gö Lotsāwa as stating, "The followers of the tradition of Tsen (Btsan) maintain that since the luminous nature of mind is the buddha nature, the cause of buddha[hood] is fertile" [[Mathes, K.]], ''[[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]]'', p. 33. *"According to BA, those who follow the tradition of Dsen Kawoché (Tib. Btsan Kha bo che) hold that since the tathāgata heart is the naturally luminous nature of the mind, it is the powerful vital cause of buddhahood. TOK agrees, saying that, according to the Eighth Situpa, the texts in Dsen Kawoché’s lineage accepted a really established, self-aware, self-luminous cognition empty of the duality of apprehender and apprehended to be the powerful vital cause of buddhahood." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', p. 65. *Karl Brunnhölzl cites ShAkya mchog ldan: "The sugata heart is the naturally pure wisdom, luminous by nature, that pervades everyone from buddhas to sentient beings." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], [[When the Clouds Part]], p. 124. Third Turning "Kunga Drölcho provides some context for Dsen Kawoché’s view and for the following excerpts from the latter’s teachings, which Kunga Drölcho compiled as Guiding Instructions on the View of Other-Emptiness: As for the Guiding Instructions on the View of Other-Emptiness, Dsen Kawoché said, "The Kashmiri paṇḍita Sajjana made the following very essential statement: ‘The victor turned the wheel of dharma three times—the first wheel teaches the four realities of the noble ones, the second one teaches the lack of characteristics, and the final one makes excellent distinctions. Among these, the first two do not distinguish between what is actual and what is nominal. The last one was spoken at the point of certainty about the ultimate by distinguishing between the middle and extremes and by distinguishing between phenomena and the nature of phenomena. " [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', pp. 142-143. Yogācāra Karl cites Kongtrul stating, "TOK calls Ngog’s tradition of the Maitreya texts "the oral transmission of explanation" (''bshad pa’i bka’ babs'') and Dsen’s lineage, "the oral transmission of practice" (''sgrub pa’i bka’ babs''), saying that they are asserted to hold the views of Madhyamaka and Mere Mentalism, respectively." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', p. 124. He predates the category, but as Stearns remarks, "Tsen Kawoché . . . is often thought to be the first Tibetan to have taught what later came to be known as the Zhentong view." See [[Stearns, C.]], [[The Buddha from Dolpo]], pp. 42–3 and pp. 88–9. Kadam grwa pa mngon shes Sajjana Classical Bird Iron Female Tsen Khawoche was an eleventh-century disciple of the Kashmiri paṇḍita Sajjana. He is credited by Tibetan historians for giving rise to the "meditative" tradition of exegesis of the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'', a main source of buddha-nature theory in Tibet, which heavily influenced Mahāmudrā and the "other-emptiness" philosophical position. Tsen Khawoche was an eleventh-century disciple of the Kashmiri paṇḍita Sajjana. He is credited by Tibetan historians for giving rise to the "meditative" tradition of exegesis of the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'', a main source of buddha-nature theory in Tibet, which heavily influenced Mahāmudrā and the "other-emptiness" philosophical position. https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tsen-Khawoche/7113 Btsan kha bo che;བཙན་ཁ་བོ་ཆེ་;btsan kha bo che;Tsen Khawoche;;; ; ; 1021 2018-07-23T15:38:29Z 2458323.1517245 2020-03-16T14:16:47Z 2458925.0949884 false People/Btsan kha bo che 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Btsan kha bo che]] People/Btsan kha bo che# QUERYcc53fa190b251b830e3fdfc9ba65774a 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Btsan kha bo che]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Btsan kha bo che||People/Btsan kha bo che]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Btsan kha bo che]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Btsan kha bo che# QUERY8aa9bc256cea1d5a641d1a4f8f0d88ec 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Btsan kha bo che]] People/Btsan kha bo che# QUERY3286955f3822a0e57491053f4f943780 Books/Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology 0 en Contributions to the Development of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology Articles/Elucidating the Zhentong View: A Condensation of the Threefold Nature of Reality 0 en Elucidating the Zhentong View: A Condensation of the Threefold Nature of Reality Articles/Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen 0 en Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen Media/Martina Draszczyk at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium 0 en Martina Draszczyk at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium Books/Perfect or Perfected? 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