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| |ArticleTitle=Śākya mchog-ldan on gotra in Yogācāra and Madhyamaka | | |ArticleTitle=Śākya mchog-ldan on gotra in Yogācāra and Madhyamaka |
| |AuthorPage=Gilks, P. | | |AuthorPage=Gilks, P. |
| + | |ArticleSummary=This paper is being presented as part of a panel on the topic of Reformulations of Yogācāra in |
| + | Tibet. Particularly, it relates to Tibetan commentary on ''Abhisamayālaṃkāra'' (''AA'') I:39, in |
| + | which it is taught that the foundation (''pratiṣṭhā'') for religious practice is the ''dharmadhātu'' and |
| + | that since the ''dharmadhātu'' is undifferentiated (''asaṃbhedā''), there are ultimately no distinct |
| + | ''gotras'' corresponding to the three vehicles. This teaching is usually interpreted as a |
| + | Mādhyamaka justification for one final vehicle, as opposed to the three-vehicle theory, |
| + | attributed to Cittamātra/Vijñaptimātratā, and which is closely related to the doctrine of three |
| + | gotras found in sutras such as ''Saṃdhinirmocana'' and ''Laṅkāvatāra'' and śāstras such as |
| + | ''Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra''. However, there are some Tibetan writers outside the influential |
| + | Gelug tradition who see the equation of ''gotra'' with ''dharmadhātu'' as an essentially Yogācāra |
| + | doctrine. This alternative viewpoint implies that Yogācāra and Cittamātra are not, as is |
| + | commonly held to be the case, the same thing and brings to the fore the question of whether |
| + | Yogācāra is better understood as a tradition that transcends traditional doxographic categories. |
| + | Through an analysis of Śākya-mchog-ldan’s explanation of ''AA'' I:39, which includes a |
| + | differentiation of two other terms that are also often held to be synonymous, namely ''gotra'' |
| + | and buddha-essense (or ''tathāgatagarbha''), I aim to highlight some of the ways in which his |
| + | ‘reformulation’ of Yogācāra implies a reformulation of certain Cittamātra doctrines. Finally, I |
| + | conclude the paper with a brief discussion on the extent to which doxographical discourse |
| + | both restricts and allows for the formulation of an individual point of view. (Gilks, introduction, 1) |
| |ArticleReferences=* Brunnhölzl, Karl. ''The Center of the Sunlit Sky''. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2004. | | |ArticleReferences=* Brunnhölzl, Karl. ''The Center of the Sunlit Sky''. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2004. |
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