]> 2026-10-15T12:53:21-04:00 People/Kamalaśīla 0 en One of the most important Madhyamaka authors of late Indian Buddhism, a major representative of the Yogācāra-Madhyamaka synthesis, and a participant in the famous Bsam yas Debate. According to Tibetan doxographies, he was a proponent of the Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka. Although little is known about his life, according to Tibetan sources he was a monk and teacher at Nālandā. Tibetan sources also count him as one of three (together with Śāntarakṣita and Jñãnagarbha) “Eastern Svātantrikas” (rang rgyud shar gsum), suggesting that he was from Bengal. He was clearly a direct disciple of Śāntarakṣita, composing important commentaries on his teacher’s two major works, the ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra'' and the ''Tattvasaṃgraha''. The latter commentary, which is extant in Sanskrit, is an important source for both Hindu and Buddhist philosophical positions in the eighth century. (Source: "Kamalaśīla." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 411. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) Person People File:Kamalashila-cropped.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/thumb.php?f=Kamalashila-cropped.jpg&width=1000 true true true File:Kamalashila-cropped.jpg File:Kamalashila.jpg File:Kamalashila2 RigpaWiki.jpg File:Kamalashila-cropped.jpg;File:Kamalashila.jpg;File:Kamalashila2 RigpaWiki.jpg Kamalaśīla;Kamalaśīla;པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་;pad+ma'i ngang tshul;Kamalaśīla false Kamalaśīla Kamalaśīla པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་ pad+ma'i ngang tshul Kamalashila-cropped.jpg Kamalaśīla པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་ pad+ma'i ngang tshul Classical Indian Authors Qualified Yes "The teaching “all sentient beings have Buddha-nature” is interpreted in the sense that all sentient beings are pervaded by the ''dharmadhātu'', which is characterized by selflessness. In other words, the ''tathāgatagarbha'' is taken to be the ''dharmadhātugarbha''. Though the term ''dharmadhātugarbha'' appears in the RGVV, Kamalaśīla's interpretation seems to have been derived from a phrase in the ''Laṅkāvatārasūtra'', “the embryo of the ''tathāgata'', which is selflessness” (''tathāgatanairātmyagarbha''), reinforcing the notion that Buddha-nature does not refer to ''ātman'' but rather to selflessness (''nairātmya'')." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 10. In the sense that all beings have the potential to achieve Buddhahood. Provisional Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities) Though he might be an early antecedent to the position that combines emptiness and luminosity, Brunnhölzl counts him among those that hold this position. *"One should add here Kamalaśīla’s (c. 740–795) ''Madhyamakāloka'', which takes the tathāgata heart to be natural luminosity but defines the latter as the dharmadhātu characterized by twofold identitylessness: "This statement “All sentient beings possess the tathāgata heart” teaches that all are suitable to attain the state of unsurpassable completely perfect awakening since it is held that the term tathāgata expresses that the dharmadhātu, which is characterized by personal and phenomenal identitylessness, is natural luminosity." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], [[When the Clouds Part]], p. 56. 1 "In his ''Madhyamakāloka'', Kamalaśīla presents the position of an opponent who takes the three-vehicle theory to be definitive. He refutes that position and makes the case for the single-vehicle theory being definitive by quoting a number of sutra passages." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 9. Madhyamaka Nalanda Śāntarakṣita Classical One of the most important Madhyamaka authors of late Indian Buddhism, a major representative of the Yogācāra-Madhyamaka synthesis, and a participant in the famous Bsam yas Debate. According to Tibetan doxographies, he was a proponent of the Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka. Although little is known about his life, according to Tibetan sources he was a monk and teacher at Nālandā. Tibetan sources also count him as one of three (together with Śāntarakṣita and Jñãnagarbha) “Eastern Svātantrikas” (rang rgyud shar gsum), suggesting that he was from Bengal. He was clearly a direct disciple of Śāntarakṣita, composing important commentaries on his teacher’s two major works, the ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra'' and the ''Tattvasaṃgraha''. The latter commentary, which is extant in Sanskrit, is an important source for both Hindu and Buddhist philosophical positions in the eighth century. (Source: "Kamalaśīla." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 411. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) 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