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- People/Duckworth, D. (category Professors,Translators,Authors of English Works)Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (OUP 2019) and a translation of an overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva by Künzang Sönam,90 bytes (4,425 words) - 16:26, 23 September 2020
- exploring the practical relevance of the Madhyamaka way of mind training. Part One of the book, "The General Presentation of Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition14 bytes (1,564 words) - 16:43, 14 March 2019
- People/Fletcher, W. (category Authors of English Works,Translators,Tsadra Fellows and Grantees)Rangdrol The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva (rev. ed.) The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva’s "Way of the Bodhisattva14 bytes (3,228 words) - 19:06, 12 December 2019
- 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 enlightenment2 KB (14,267 words) - 23:19, 5 October 2020
- discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into how to practice the way of the bodhisattva. Drawing on the Indian masters14 bytes (2,689 words) - 11:55, 15 August 2018
- Key Terms/saṃvṛtisatya (redirect from Relative (level of) truth)is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative. ~ The Way of the Bodhisattva, Padmakara Translation Group, 2008, page 22912 bytes (309 words) - 15:21, 16 May 2018
- ultimate is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative. ~ The Way of the Bodhisattva, Padmakara Translation Group, 200812 bytes (857 words) - 15:21, 16 May 2018
- (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle: An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras; Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra3 KB (18,894 words) - 12:50, 11 July 2018
- commentary outlines the importance of Mahāyāna, the centrality of bodhicitta or the mind of awakening, the path of becoming a bodhisattva, and how one can64 bytes (18,347 words) - 17:12, 13 March 2020
- discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into how to practice the way of the bodhisattva. Drawing on the Indian masters2 KB (600 words) - 19:30, 5 July 2023
- discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into how to practice the way of the bodhisattva. Drawing on the Indian masters14 bytes (1,702 words) - 12:34, 14 August 2020
- Collected Works, vol. 2 (a), 96-101. Commentary on the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva [spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka]. Sichuan, China: Nationalities3 KB (1,470 words) - 17:02, 18 June 2020
- discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into how to practice the way of the bodhisattva. Drawing on the Indian masters14 bytes (1,861 words) - 12:48, 12 November 2020
- People/Asaṅga (section On the topic of this person)Commentary on The Uttara Tantra Book A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle A monumental work and Indian Buddhist classic, the Ornament of the Mahāyāna144 bytes (19,094 words) - 17:26, 23 September 2020
- commentary outlines the importance of Mahāyāna, the centrality of bodhicitta or the mind of awakening, the path of becoming a bodhisattva, and how one can12 bytes (14,520 words) - 15:54, 12 June 2018
- Vidyadharas The Nature of the Ground The Extraordinary Path of the Natural Great Perfection The Kayas and Wisdoms of the Ultimate Fruition The first nine chapters2 KB (1,683 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
- Key Terms/byams chos sde lnga (redirect from Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya)(Padmakara Translation Group), trans. A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle: An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras; Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra12 bytes (8,791 words) - 11:59, 23 January 2020
- Music of the Sphere of Definitive Meaning: Detailed Explanation of the Mahamudra Prayer in Accordance with the Philosophy of the Great Emptiness-of-Other41 KB (5,869 words) - 14:52, 28 February 2024
- identical to the dharmakāya, the truth-body of the buddha, which is the true nature of all phenomena. Tantric texts often present the five elements of earth,22 KB (50,630 words) - 10:49, 10 February 2023
- time. The third and fourth verses {J53} explain the characteristics of the purity of the qualities of bodhisattvas who engage in the conduct [of bodhisattvas]10 KB (2,416 words) - 12:43, 18 August 2020
- Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra/English (section Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra—An Analysis of the Jewel Disposition, A Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna)refers to the sevenfold actuality of realization, that is, the actuality of the Buddha, the actuality of the dharma, the actuality of the assembly, the actuality499 KB (77,407 words) - 15:19, 7 May 2020
- Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra (redirect from The Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)was a bodhisattva on the first bhūmi who was born in India seven hundred years after the passing of the Buddha. He mastered all the teachings of hīnayāna13 KB (47,586 words) - 12:13, 31 January 2023
- Key Terms/Madhyamaka (redirect from The Middle Way School of Mahāyāna philosophy)Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory12 bytes (16,520 words) - 12:07, 15 July 2019
- Texts/Madhyamakāvatāra (redirect from Entrance to the Middle Way) (section Philosophical positions of this text)chapters on the qualities of the bodhisattva, on the stage of buddhahood, and a conclusion. The lengthiest (comprising approximately half of the work) and204 bytes (862 words) - 10:01, 2 September 2020
- another for the demise of the historical Buddha may have been one of the principal internal factors that contributed to the formation of the idea of the resolve13 bytes (11,635 words) - 15:45, 11 December 2019
- Texts/Madhyāntavibhāga (redirect from Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes) (section Philosophical positions of this text)Yogācāra, the means of cultivating the antidotes to the defilements, and the activity of the Mahāyāna path. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism205 bytes (541 words) - 06:23, 9 September 2020
- Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory12 bytes (10,687 words) - 18:14, 12 March 2019
- Texts/Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (redirect from White Lotus of the Excellent Doctrine Sūtra) (section Emulating Never Disrespectful Bodhisattva)relevant paragraphs: The Quest of the Monk Sōō to Practice Revering Buddha-Nature The "marathon monks" of Japan are one of the iconic images of Japanese Buddhism4 KB (5,404 words) - 10:28, 7 May 2020
- undertake the bodhisattva path; (4) the generation of the aspiration to enlightenment (bodhicittotpāda); (5) the practice of the bodhisattva; (6) the nature1 KB (4,082 words) - 17:43, 16 October 2020
- Books/Luminous Heart (redirect from Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature) (section An Aspiration by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje)stream of the Narmadā river of virtue Washes away the stains of the mind, With the waves of the virtues of the two accumulations rolling high, May it merge245 KB (38,311 words) - 18:11, 27 October 2020
- Asaṅga by the bodhisattva Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven. Written in verse, the text offers a systematic presentation of the practices of the bodhisattva from2 KB (4,212 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
- Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory12 bytes (20,371 words) - 11:26, 15 July 2019
- In the MSA/Bh, one way in which the limits of the Mahāyāna are defined is through the employment of the gotra-theory, a theory which identifies the soteriological12 bytes (11,662 words) - 11:19, 9 May 2018
- Books/Approaching the Great Perfection/Buddha-Nature in the Longchen Nyingtig (category Books/Approaching the Great Perfection) (section Reconciling Immanence with Distinction: The Buddha Nature)citation of the fifth example of the way the buddha nature is obscured in the Uttaratantraśāstra. The metaphor of the net is comparable to the cage in the28 KB (4,683 words) - 12:01, 31 January 2023
- People/Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim (category Tibetan Buddhist Teachers,Khenpos,Authors of Tibetan Works) (section On the topic of this person)explanations, the book contains translations of the following texts: A Brief Discussion of The Rise of the Other Emptiness Middle Way Called "The Music of Talk14 bytes (2,847 words) - 19:48, 25 March 2019
- Instead, the dharma is entrusted to the bodhisattva Mahākāśyapa. Remarkably, the Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra (with the exception of the Dharmakṣema version)24 KB (21,850 words) - 07:54, 15 January 2021
- Texts/Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārakārikā (redirect from Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras) (section Philosophical positions of this text)undertake the bodhisattva path; (4) the generation of the aspiration to enlightenment (bodhicittotpāda); (5) the practice of the bodhisattva; (6) the nature185 bytes (1,806 words) - 16:43, 30 October 2019
- sūtra details the story of the bodhisattva Sāgaramati and his questioning of the Buddha. A couple of the Buddha's responses to the bodhisattva are quoted14 bytes (5,130 words) - 12:41, 17 October 2019
- Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices Audio Buddha Nature and the Yogācāra Analysis of Mind in The Awakening12 bytes (9,372 words) - 11:41, 26 September 2018
- Key Terms/tathāgatagarbha (redirect from Essence/Heart of the Thus Gone One)literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Read It in the Scriptures Son of good family, the True Nature (dharmatā) of the dharmas12 bytes (43,844 words) - 13:06, 30 April 2018
- People/Wangchuk, Dorji (category Professors,Authors of German Works,Authors of English Works,Translators)that the "root-less-ness" of the mind (or, the rootless mind) is the "root" of all phenomena, or ideas similar to it, is explicit in a number of textual sources90 bytes (8,041 words) - 16:43, 23 September 2020
- People/Trungpa, Chögyam (category Tibetan Buddhist Teachers,Tulkus,Western Buddhist Teachers,Authors of English Works,Authors of Tibetan Works) (section On the topic of this person)Judy Lief;The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma. Vol. 1, The Path of Individual Liberation Book The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume14 bytes (873 words) - 16:59, 20 March 2019
- Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory, is one of the most influential12 bytes (7,296 words) - 11:18, 29 October 2019
- Texts/Śrīmālādevīsūtra (redirect from Lion’s Roar of Śrīmālādevī Sūtra) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)result attain the dharmakāya of the Buddha (comp. the Aṅgulimālīyasūtra below). The achievements of the arhat and the pratyekabuddha of the “Hīnayāna” are10 KB (13,861 words) - 16:21, 4 September 2020
- Perfection is indeed the culmination and maturation of the Mahāyāna, the Great Vehicle. The central topic of the work is the notion of illusory appearance64 bytes (4,449 words) - 17:17, 13 March 2020
- chapters on the qualities of the bodhisattva, on the stage of buddhahood, and a conclusion. The lengthiest (comprising approximately half of the work) and67 bytes (4,889 words) - 10:11, 16 March 2020
- pronouncement of the self blazes Like the fire at the end of time, Consumes the jungle of the lack of the self, And is liberated from the flaws of the tīrthikas44 KB (17,528 words) - 14:16, 14 October 2020
- People/Sajjana (section On the topic of this person)both aspects of the text to the as of yet still mysterious figure of Sāramati, the Tibetan tradition attributes the treatise to the Bodhisattva Maitreya and81 bytes (3,685 words) - 13:37, 23 September 2020
- People/Khyentse, Dilgo (category Classical Tibetan Authors,Tertons,Tulkus,Authors of Tibetan Works) (section On the topic of this person)including passages from Guide to the Wheel of Analytical Meditation, The Adornment of the Middle Way, The Wisdom Chapter, The Lion’s Roar, and White Lotus64 bytes (1,957 words) - 17:15, 13 March 2020
- People/Guenther, H. (category Authors of English Works,Professors)prevalent during the establishment of Ch' an in China. The papers on Tibet take us to the heart of the controversies surrounding the origins of Buddhism14 bytes (1,196 words) - 13:24, 27 March 2019
- in this way, is the profoundest of the profound, and it is the ultimate definitive meaning." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p14 bytes (2,502 words) - 11:12, 10 July 2018
- sūtra details the story of the bodhisattva Sāgaramati and his questioning of the Buddha. A couple of the Buddha's responses to the bodhisattva are quoted14 bytes (1,992 words) - 13:28, 7 November 2019
- Media/John Canti: On the Uttaratantra in Relation to the Other Works of Maitreya (section About the video)undertake the bodhisattva path; (4) the generation of the aspiration to enlightenment (bodhicittotpāda); (5) the practice of the bodhisattva; (6) the nature771 bytes (2,004 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
- Chinese rulai zang 如來藏, the key term of this strand of Buddhism and the title of the sūtra), can be observed in the textual history of the TGS. (Zimmermann,8 KB (12,121 words) - 14:44, 2 November 2020
- Chinese rulai zang 如來藏, the key term of this strand of Buddhism and the title of the sūtra), can be observed in the textual history of the TGS. (Zimmermann,4 KB (2,770 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
- to the intricacies of the buddha-nature debate. It is an approach that combines the yogic sensibilities of Mahāmudrā with the dialectic approach of the12 bytes (12,181 words) - 15:09, 12 June 2018
- chapters on the qualities of the bodhisattva, on the stage of buddhahood, and a conclusion. The lengthiest (comprising approximately half of the work) and14 bytes (1,783 words) - 17:14, 11 December 2019
- Articles/A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions (section The Ratnagotravibhāga and the Later Spread of Buddha-Nature Theory in India)teachings since the early days of the religion discussed the various predilections of followers, a way of separating the children of the "noble" class—those109 KB (16,256 words) - 16:05, 8 May 2024
- Books/Path to Buddhahood (redirect from Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation) (section The Author)Kayas 72 The Refuge Ceremony 74 The Bodhichitta of Commitment 76 The Bodhisattva Vows 76 Instructions for Developing the Bodhichitta of Commitment: The Six8 KB (1,351 words) - 12:58, 23 September 2020
- Media/Khenpo Ngawang Jorden at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium (section Abstract from the Author)Yogācāra, the means of cultivating the antidotes to the defilements, and the activity of the Mahāyāna path. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism1 KB (1,308 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
- practice. The Tien-tai favor the more philosophical scriptures, the Shingon, the more esoteric, the Ch’an (Zen), the more intellectual, and the Pure Land13 bytes (13,007 words) - 15:19, 7 August 2020
- typology of luminosity: the luminosity of the basis, the path, dream, the bar do, and the ultimate. In this text, he explicitly explains that the luminosity4 KB (1,628 words) - 12:10, 31 January 2023
- discusses the fifth point, the state of purified growth of enlightenment fifth point, the third chapter presents the sixth point which is the qualities of that1 KB (3,153 words) - 15:50, 17 July 2021
- facing pages. The student of The Gateway to Knowledge can begin to comprehend the meaning of the major works on Buddhist philosophy and of the traditional13 bytes (9,097 words) - 15:43, 11 December 2019
- People/Keizan (section On the topic of this person)set.;The Record of Transmission of Light: Denkōroku;Keizan Book The Record of Transmitting the Light The Record of Transmitting the Light traces the inheritance39 bytes (2,439 words) - 20:18, 28 June 2021
- People/Zhiyi (section On the topic of this person)"gates" lead the meditator to realization of the fourth of the four truths (cessation), of which the "sublimity" referenced in the title is one of the four c241 bytes (4,586 words) - 16:37, 21 September 2020
- chapters on the qualities of the bodhisattva, on the stage of buddhahood, and a conclusion. The lengthiest (comprising approximately half of the work) and119 bytes (1,035 words) - 19:08, 11 November 2021
- Treatise on the States of the Path") and (2) the Lam rim bsdus don ("Concise Meaning of the Stages of the Path"), occasionally also referred to as the Lam rim62 bytes (9,200 words) - 17:07, 13 March 2020
- Chinese rulai zang 如來藏, the key term of this strand of Buddhism and the title of the sūtra), can be observed in the textual history of the TGS. (Zimmermann,2 KB (2,020 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
- Lama Yeshe Dorje: A Treasury of Gems of the Definitive Meaning: An Explanation of the Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna According to Brunnhölzl13 bytes (5,129 words) - 15:41, 11 December 2019
- Yogācāra, the means of cultivating the antidotes to the defilements, and the activity of the Mahāyāna path. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism14 bytes (1,096 words) - 13:10, 8 November 2019
- chapters on the qualities of the bodhisattva, on the stage of buddhahood, and a conclusion. The lengthiest (comprising approximately half of the work) and14 bytes (1,312 words) - 12:08, 10 December 2019
- People/Mathes, K. (category Authors of English Works,Authors of German Works,Professors,Translators)abiding in the same way as a fire kindled from rubbing pieces of wood bums the pieces of wood themselves (gZhon nu dpal explains this on the basis of Kamalaśīla's3 KB (8,334 words) - 16:14, 23 September 2020
- Media/Rev. Kokyo Henkel: Resource Recommendations for Learning about Buddha-Nature in the Zen Tradition (section About the video)Cleary;Transmission of Light (Denkoroku): Zen in the Art of Enlightenment;Keizan Book The Record of Transmitting the Light The Record of Transmitting the Light traces440 bytes (2,932 words) - 14:03, 27 July 2021
- and part of the third turning of the wheel of the Dharma. Within the traditional buddhist shedras for monastic education, it is often taught as the final39 bytes (1,331 words) - 18:35, 23 July 2020
- People/Ruegg, D. (category Professors Emeritus,Translators,Authors of French Works,Authors of English Works)Buddhahood, the importance of the theme of the tathāgatagarbha is basic to the soteriology and gnoseology of the Mahāyāna. (Ruegg, "The Buddhist Notion of an 'Immanent14 bytes (4,236 words) - 15:34, 27 September 2018
- People/Scarangello, D. (category Authors of English Works) (section Emulating Never Disrespectful Bodhisattva)Here are the first relevant paragraphs: The Quest of the Monk Sōō to Practice Revering Buddha-Nature The "marathon monks" of Japan are one of the iconic14 bytes (1,063 words) - 19:13, 16 September 2021
- abiding in the same way as a fire kindled from rubbing pieces of wood bums the pieces of wood themselves (gZhon nu dpal explains this on the basis of Kamalaśīla's77 bytes (4,937 words) - 17:39, 31 July 2020
- relevance to the Mahāmudrā teachings of the bKa’ brgyud pa-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The book then examines the development of the gzhan stong view in Tibet13 bytes (27,573 words) - 15:41, 11 December 2019
- Texts/Dbu ma la 'jug pa'i rnam bshad dgongs pa rab gsal (redirect from The Thoroughly Clear Intention: A Detailed Explanation of the Madhyamakāvatāra) (section Philosophical positions of this text)insight of Nagarjuna’s thought—the rejection of any metaphysical notion of intrinsic existence—with the well-known Mahayana framework of the ten levels of the229 bytes (251 words) - 09:31, 8 April 2022
- dkar po The root text of the Treasury of Wishfulfilling Jewel along with its auto-commentary the White Lotus make up one of the main books among the Seven64 bytes (11,801 words) - 17:14, 13 March 2020
- Media/Peter Skilling: On the Cuḷasuññata Sutta and Its Relationship to Maitreya's Madhyāntavibhāga (section About the video)Yogācāra, the means of cultivating the antidotes to the defilements, and the activity of the Mahāyāna path. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism684 bytes (640 words) - 12:12, 31 January 2023
- People/Fuchs, R. (category Authors of English Works,Translators)and part of the third turning of the wheel of the Dharma. Within the traditional buddhist shedras for monastic education, it is often taught as the final14 bytes (1,239 words) - 12:07, 6 September 2018
- both aspects of the text to the as of yet still mysterious figure of Sāramati, the Tibetan tradition attributes the treatise to the Bodhisattva Maitreya and3 KB (2,013 words) - 12:10, 31 January 2023
- away on the twenty-seventh day of the eleventh month of the earth-pig year of the fifteenth sexagenary cycle. Nesar Tashi Chöpel, who recorded the date,14 bytes (14,846 words) - 16:47, 13 August 2018
- relate the doctrine of emptiness (the illusory nature of the world) to that of the truly existing, changeless Absolute (the Buddha Nature). This is the first2 KB (3,931 words) - 12:10, 31 January 2023
- being split into the world of humanity and the world of gods, the world of suffering and the world of liberation, the endless cycle of life and death (samsara)13 bytes (12,452 words) - 15:43, 11 December 2019
- chapters on the qualities of the bodhisattva, on the stage of buddhahood, and a conclusion. The lengthiest (comprising approximately half of the work) and14 bytes (977 words) - 15:56, 21 August 2020
- ing-for-the-sound-in-the-lute-three-qualities-of-zazen-and-three-types-of-zazen/. "Zhaozhou’s Dog and the Middle Way of Buddha Nature (Book of Serenity12 bytes (2,899 words) - 09:16, 22 May 2018
- Judy Lief;The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma. Vol. 1, The Path of Individual Liberation Book The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume14 bytes (1,223 words) - 17:50, 19 March 2019
- People/Burchardi, A. (category Professors,Authors of English Works,Translators)Burchardi: On the Sutra Sources for the Uttaratantra and Her Work on the Dharanishvarajasutra See The Illustrations of the Nine Examples of the Buddha-Nature14 bytes (5,300 words) - 17:36, 22 May 2019
- Buddhism, from the evolution of T’ang “gentry Taoism” to the pivotal role of image veneration and the problematic status of Chinese Tantra. The volume includes13 bytes (21,704 words) - 15:39, 11 December 2019
- appearance of the buddha, the honey, the kernels, the gold, the treasure, The nyagrodha tree, the precious image, the supreme lord of the world, and the precious218 KB (27,126 words) - 12:13, 31 January 2023
- shunyata (emptiness), bodhichitta (the heart and mind of enlightenment), the bodhisattva ideal, and more. The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion, along3 KB (526 words) - 12:27, 2 September 2020
- Texts/Ghanavyūhasūtra (redirect from Sūtra on the Heavily Adorned) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)tathāgatas by virtue of the merit of the stainless ālaya. Some further examples among the many that this sūtra presents of the purity of the ālaya-consciousness7 KB (2,109 words) - 14:23, 24 August 2020
- People/Vasubandhu (section On the topic of this person)indication of the Second and the Third Swingings (i.e. of the Scripture of the intermediate and the later period), there follows the story of the Buddha's67 bytes (5,908 words) - 10:18, 16 March 2020
- Texts/Dhāraṇīśvararājasūtra (redirect from Questions of King Dhāraṇīśvara Sūtra) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)great detail but not in the way the Uttaratantra describes the ultimate qualities of the three jewels. The fourth vajra point—the tathāgata heart—is said7 KB (2,150 words) - 18:25, 5 January 2021
- philosophical concepts of systematic Sravakayana Buddhism. In the main part of the book, Frauwallner presents the first survey of the development of the philosophical286 bytes (4,067 words) - 12:16, 17 January 2023
- Texts/Dasheng qixin lun (redirect from The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna) (section Philosophical positions of this text)Clue to the Authorship of the Awakening of Faith: "Śikṣānanda's" Redaction of the Word "Nien" The text, Ta-ch'eng ch'i-hsin lunf (The Awakening of Faith20 KB (21,256 words) - 14:49, 27 January 2023
- Sanskrit Noun bhūmi developmental stage भूमि ས་ Basic Meaning A plateau of spiritual development.12 bytes (14 words) - 09:16, 22 May 2018
- Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way, The Heart Sutra, The Bodhisattva Vow, the Six Perfections, How Karma Works, and Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment14 bytes (257 words) - 18:37, 21 March 2019
- People/Obermiller, E. (category Authors of English Works,Professors) (section On the topic of this person)period of the greatest importance in the early history of Tibet in general and of the spread of Buddhism in that country in particular. The activity of the14 bytes (4,245 words) - 10:47, 30 July 2019
- Books/From Reductionism to Creativity (redirect from From Reductionism to Creativity: rDzogs-chen and the New Sciences of Mind)Pratyekabuddha Ways106 The Śrāvaka Conception of the Way106 The Pratyekabuddha Conception of the Way122 8 THE WAY: THE LATER VIEW I126 The Bodhisattva Way I: Prelude1263 KB (478 words) - 15:28, 27 April 2020
- indication of the Second and the Third Swingings (i.e. of the Scripture of the intermediate and the later period), there follows the story of the Buddha's104 bytes (2,591 words) - 19:02, 21 September 2020
- peaceful. It is only bodhisattva mahāsattvas who understand the eternal character of the Tathāgata as well as the existence of the tathāgata heart, without9 KB (3,454 words) - 15:43, 4 September 2020
- emphasis on the nondual, primarily mental nature of reality most powerfully supports the great messianic vow of the bodhisattva, the entry into the universal12 bytes (3,652 words) - 12:21, 11 May 2018
- People/Nāgārjuna (category Classical Indian Authors,Authors of Sanskrit Works) (section On the topic of this person)History of Buddhism, i.e. of the historical part proper. The latter begins with the Life of the Buddha and ends with an account of the work carried out67 bytes (5,806 words) - 10:11, 16 March 2020
- People/Xuanzang (section On the topic of this person)Yogācāra, the means of cultivating the antidotes to the defilements, and the activity of the Mahāyāna path. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism14 bytes (2,438 words) - 12:40, 5 February 2020
- and his quest for the teachings on the Perfection of Wisdom from the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata. The sūtra is also one of the earliest Mahāyāna sources proclaiming1 KB (407 words) - 05:05, 1 June 2023
- practice. The Tien-tai favor the more philosophical scriptures, the Shingon, the more esoteric, the Ch’an (Zen), the more intellectual, and the Pure Land13 bytes (11,383 words) - 15:37, 11 December 2019
- indication of the Second and the Third Swingings (i.e. of the Scripture of the intermediate and the later period), there follows the story of the Buddha's255 bytes (3,671 words) - 14:50, 6 October 2020
- concept of the Buddha nature an outcome of the influence of other Indian religious thought upon Buddhism? It is out of the scope of this short paper to answer32 KB (5,196 words) - 13:45, 26 May 2020
- In the MSA/Bh, one way in which the limits of the Mahāyāna are defined is through the employment of the gotra-theory, a theory which identifies the soteriological14 bytes (849 words) - 19:06, 5 June 2019
- People/Sherab Phuntsho, Thrangu Khenpo (category Authors of Tibetan Works,Khenpos)explains that the great middle way of zhentong is the ultimate way of grasping the nature of the flower as being identical with the nature of the mind. A flower14 bytes (1,228 words) - 00:16, 21 June 2023
- Media/Thupten Jinpa: Buddha-Nature and the Tension between Two Fundamental Concepts of Mahayana Thought (section About the video)Chinese rulai zang 如來藏, the key term of this strand of Buddhism and the title of the sūtra), can be observed in the textual history of the TGS. (Zimmermann,1 KB (1,264 words) - 12:12, 31 January 2023
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- Articles/Buddha-Nature (1): Revering Buddha-Nature (section Emulating Never Disrespectful Bodhisattva)Here are the first relevant paragraphs: The Quest of the Monk Sōō to Practice Revering Buddha-Nature The "marathon monks" of Japan are one of the iconic160 bytes (455 words) - 19:10, 16 September 2021
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- Media/Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Her Name "Shenpen" and Her First Impressions of the Buddha-Nature Teachings (section About the video)relate the doctrine of emptiness (the illusory nature of the world) to that of the truly existing, changeless Absolute (the Buddha Nature). This is the first192 bytes (951 words) - 13:56, 8 August 2022
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- Texts/Dbu ma chos dbyings bstod pa'i rnam par bshad pa (redirect from An Explanation of In Praise of Madhyamaka-Dharmadhātu) (section Philosophical positions of this text)definitely not the teachings on the way of being of the Buddha and the dharma, wisdom, great compassion, or enlightened activity. The main part of describing13 KB (3,055 words) - 16:33, 12 May 2020
- Key Terms/rang stong (redirect from Empty of self)experience of the ultimate nature, it is essential to distinguish the latter from the adventitious states of mind that do not reflect how the nature of mind12 bytes (8,767 words) - 14:09, 22 November 2019
- trans. The Light of Wisdom. Vol. 1. With the root text Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo by Padmasambhava, the commentary The Light of Wisdom by Jamgön Kongtrül the First165 KB (39,898 words) - 13:31, 13 May 2024
- Texts/Phyir mi ldog pa seng ge'i nga ro (redirect from The Unassailable Lion's Roar) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)relate the doctrine of emptiness (the illusory nature of the world) to that of the truly existing, changeless Absolute (the Buddha Nature). This is the first1 KB (2,030 words) - 08:50, 17 September 2020
- People/Gethin, S. (category Authors of English Works,Authors of French Works,Translators)(Padmakara Translation Group), trans. A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle: An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras; Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra39 bytes (657 words) - 12:03, 18 September 2020
- Media/Donald S. Lopez, Jr. - Keynote of the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium (section Abstract from the Author)Chinese rulai zang 如來藏, the key term of this strand of Buddhism and the title of the sūtra), can be observed in the textual history of the TGS. (Zimmermann,4 KB (4,987 words) - 12:10, 31 January 2023
- Tibet as the lord of the Lotus Family in the Kriyā tantras. external link ADARSHA Prajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcaśatikā "Way of the Perfection of Wisdom in2 KB (2,057 words) - 12:11, 31 January 2023
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- critiques of the theory of "Original-enlightenment" in modern Chinese Buddhism; his analysis of the title of Tibetan version and the structure of the text;14 bytes (867 words) - 15:16, 7 March 2019
- both aspects of the text to the as of yet still mysterious figure of Sāramati, the Tibetan tradition attributes the treatise to the Bodhisattva Maitreya and609 bytes (3,333 words) - 17:24, 31 January 2023
- human-like beings. Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, carries a sword that cuts through delusion. Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, sometimes12 KB (2,039 words) - 14:29, 16 July 2020
- Texts/Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi 'grel ba gsal ba nyi ma'i snying po (redirect from Heart of the Luminous Sun) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)RGVV, the bulk of HLS’s comments is on the first four vajra points. Thereafter, the text mostly just intersperses its outline with the verses of the Uttaratantra6 KB (1,395 words) - 13:23, 9 September 2020
- Media/Anne Burchardi: Why the Buddha-Nature Teachings were Taught according to the Uttaratantrashastra (section About the video)relate the doctrine of emptiness (the illusory nature of the world) to that of the truly existing, changeless Absolute (the Buddha Nature). This is the first793 bytes (2,044 words) - 12:10, 31 January 2023
- Articles/All Buddhas and All Living Beings Are Just This One Mind (redirect from All Buddhas and All Living Beings are Just This One Mind: Teachings of the Buddhas and Zen Ancestors on Buddha Nature, Empty Awareness, and Nonduality)image'. The form and the appearance of the image appear as different factualities. Likewise, the mind that is generated in that way and the focus of samadhi88 KB (15,169 words) - 17:28, 24 November 2020
- Articles/The Dalai Lama on "Uttaratantra" and Buddha-Nature: Day One (section Philosophical Views of The Five Dharma Texts of Maitreya)explained, the attainment of happiness and elimination of problems simply on the basis of the power of material objects or simply on the basis of some knowledge71 KB (11,833 words) - 17:17, 12 August 2020
- Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra/Root Verses/Verse I.28 (redirect from A Treatise on the Ultimate Continuum of the Mahāyāna/Verse I.28) (section The 14th Dalai Lama)endowed with the Essence of the Buddha. Because of the permeation of Sambuddhakāya, of the undifferentiatedness of Tathatā, And of the existence of families178 KB (28,688 words) - 11:16, 3 September 2020
- an analysis of the natural and developed potential within all of us from the perspectives of the two main schools of mahayana thought–the Mind-Only school12 bytes (10,828 words) - 15:54, 12 June 2018
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- Primary Sources (section The Titles of the Text)centuries of traditional scholarship on the subject. Skip to the list of source texts Scroll For more detail on the meanings of the terms in the title, see7 KB (36,661 words) - 12:12, 31 January 2023
- People/Harrison, P. (category Authors of English Works,Professors)only, viz., the early development of the idea of dharma-kāya, in the hope that clarifying this will open the way to a better understanding of Mahāyāna buddhology14 bytes (1,163 words) - 19:50, 4 December 2019
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- example, in the sutra tradition of Mahamudra, there is the way of investigating the nature of mind that is in harmony with the second turning of the wheel of21 KB (3,607 words) - 16:10, 2 April 2020
- Texts/Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi 'grel bshad de kho na nyid rab tu gsal ba'i me long (redirect from The Commentary on the Treatise “Mahāyāna-Uttaratantra”:The Mirror Showing Reality Very Clearly) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)about the validity of the teachings of the Buddha, the transmission of the five works of Maitreya in India and Tibet, and eight different ways of explaining13 KB (4,771 words) - 10:37, 9 September 2020
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- appearances are the mandala of the deities, all sounds are the mandala of mantra, and all thoughts are the mandala of enlightened mind. The nature of all apparent29 KB (4,924 words) - 20:26, 29 April 2024
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- Other-Emptiness and the Great Middle Way (section Article: A Look at the Diversity of the Gzhan stong Tradition)elucidate the unmistaken defining characteristic of emptiness [in the case of the tathāgata heart] since it [thus] is free from the extremes of superimposition69 KB (8,837 words) - 12:12, 31 January 2023
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- Articles/Outline of Western Scholarship on Buddha-Nature (section Part One: Buddha-nature Scholarship In The Twentieth Century)described the seven topics of the text as "the Buddha (1), the Doctrine (2), and the Congregation (3)—the Three Jewels. The fundamental element of the Absolute92 KB (13,737 words) - 13:27, 30 September 2020
- Therefore, [the Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra] says: Therefore, after that, {D94b} the rays of wisdom of the orb of the sun of the Tathāgata fall upon the bodies of even20 KB (3,396 words) - 12:50, 18 August 2020
- section of the songs. The second level is the anuyoga/Mother tāntra meaning. A comparison is made between the interpretations of selected scholars. The final12 bytes (1,683 words) - 12:28, 21 March 2019
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- abiding in the same way as a fire kindled from rubbing pieces of wood bums the pieces of wood themselves (gZhon nu dpal explains this on the basis of Kamalaśīla's206 bytes (587 words) - 13:32, 4 June 2020
- particular doctrine. Obviously, one of the aspects of greatest ecological significance is the view of the reality and value of the natural world. While it is inaccurate15 KB (2,526 words) - 17:33, 6 October 2020
- out as one of the most remarkable thinkers of Tibet. The enormous body of his collected works is notable for the diversity and originality of the writings62 bytes (13,420 words) - 10:30, 16 March 2020
- People/Brunnhölzl, K. (category Translators,Western Buddhist Teachers,Authors of English Works,Authors of German Works)2000–2007. He is the author of several books on Buddhism, such as The Center of the Sunlit Sky, Straight from the Heart, In Praise of Dharmadhātu, and14 bytes (7,374 words) - 16:19, 3 May 2018
- discusses the fifth point, the state of purified growth of enlightenment fifth point, the third chapter presents the sixth point which is the qualities of that12 bytes (5,638 words) - 11:07, 30 October 2019
- described in the example of a city for the wisdom of the termination of contaminations. Likewise, son of noble family, bodhisattvas give rise to the five supernatural21 KB (5,689 words) - 13:22, 18 August 2020
- today. The writings of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim appear in volume 50 of the second batch and volume 61 of the third batch of the Collected Works of Kadam series21 KB (3,328 words) - 13:04, 2 June 2023
- Hinayana or the Theravada type of Buddhism. These sutras attacked the vulgar realism of the Hinayana and proclaimed the view of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana37 KB (6,314 words) - 15:54, 28 July 2020
- exceeded|CFA.2. The determination of the nature of reality: non-duality & the middle way & the constitution of the nature of reality (sections20 KB (2,847 words) - 20:28, 15 September 2020
- of the Buddha. Hookham, Shenpen. "The Impact of a Shentong Interpretation of Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine from the Point of View of a Western Buddhist Practitioner19 KB (3,174 words) - 12:06, 31 January 2023
- translator of the Gyü Lama into English, discusses the questions about the origins and authorship of the text. On the source texts Read more The Traditions34 KB (4,963 words) - 15:07, 29 February 2024
- Articles/Khenpo Dawa Paljor's Teaching on Buddha-Nature following Mipham Rinpoche (redirect from Shedra 2009 Teachings on Mipham Rinpoche's commentary on the Uttaratantra Shastra) (section The First Vajra Point: the Buddha)Explanation of the Topics Start of the Teachings of 6-Jan. 3.2.1 A Detailed Explanation of the Three Jewels 3.2.1.1 The Nature of each of the Three Jewels56 KB (7,303 words) - 11:19, 10 November 2022
- Articles/Mind Is Buddha (section The Main Case)to leave in the realm of concept, yet it penetrates to the very heart of the matter. Here’s Geoffery Shugen Arnold, Sensei, on Case 30 of the Gateless Gate15 KB (2,632 words) - 19:52, 26 April 2024
- interpretation. The first level is the blatant meaning, and is outlined in the translation section of the songs. The second level is the anuyoga/Mother tāntra meaning12 bytes (2,374 words) - 13:01, 8 October 2020
- practice. The Tien-tai favor the more philosophical scriptures, the Shingon, the more esoteric, the Ch’an (Zen), the more intellectual, and the Pure Land5 KB (23,400 words) - 18:13, 23 February 2021
- Indeed, the eyeless one cannot see The blazing disk of the sun. This truth of the Self-Sprung Ones is to be realized through faith. The orb of the sun blazes16 KB (3,742 words) - 13:05, 18 August 2020
- refers to the sevenfold actuality of realization, that is, the actuality of the Buddha, the actuality of the dharma, the actuality of the assembly, the actuality61 KB (7,299 words) - 12:13, 31 January 2023
- clarity. It is the abiding reality of the ground of the primeval beginning of all phenomena, the abiding reality that is the indivisible truth of unity—emptiness33 KB (4,884 words) - 12:08, 31 January 2023
- As to the cause of purity, such is great faith, And the other virtues, all of them being four. [These are respectively] of the Icchantikas, Of the Heretics15 KB (4,659 words) - 13:20, 18 August 2020
- follow this dharma of ours, [but] have fallen into the ways of those [who are hostile toward the dharma], dislike the dharma of the mahāyāna. With reference15 KB (4,609 words) - 13:20, 18 August 2020
- Key Terms/gzhan stong (redirect from Emptiness-of-other)A Look at the Diversity of the Gzhan stong Tradition Burchardi, Anne. “A Look at the Diversity of the Gzhan stong Tradition.” Journal of the International12 bytes (28,661 words) - 14:12, 22 November 2019
- know the presentation that discriminates the qualities of the jewel of the saṃgha through [the passage about] the mutual display of the powers of the spheres45 KB (10,144 words) - 18:13, 26 August 2020
- Translation is made from the text of the old block-print edition, a copy of which is found in the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the U. S. S. R. (Th12 KB (2,341 words) - 17:02, 19 June 2023
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- reinterpretation of buddha-nature in association with the insentient realm should be elucidated in a more nuanced way than the idea of all-pervasiveness of the Dao546 bytes (22,326 words) - 12:09, 31 January 2023
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- Books/Refining Our Perception of Reality/Dudjom Lingpa's Usage of Buddha-Nature in ''Buddhahood Without Meditation'', with Commentary by Sera Khandro (category Books/Refining Our Perception of Reality)agent of coming do not exist, it is free from the extreme of coming. Within the expanse of the ground of being, buddha nature, all phenomena of the wheel18 KB (3,105 words) - 12:04, 31 January 2023
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- connection between the ultimate and the relative. The ultimate is the ultimate of the relative and the relative is the relative of the ultimate. They are36 KB (5,986 words) - 15:54, 8 May 2020
- progression, from the practices required at the start of the bodhisattva's career to the final perfect awakening of buddhahood. The texts in the present volume62 bytes (4,152 words) - 17:06, 13 March 2020
- describe the four enhanced phenomena of warmth, summit, forbearance, and supreme in the world. These phenomena grow out of the practice of the four steps19 KB (3,257 words) - 15:11, 21 November 2019
- Translations of the TGS69 4.3 Possible Motives of the Authors of the TGS75 4.4 The TGS in the History of lndian Buddhism77 4.5 The TGS in the Ratnagotravibhāga(vyākhyā)40 bytes (0 words) - 15:39, 27 August 2020
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- awareness—awareness that is aware of itself, free of the duality of subject and object that infects all forms of consciousness. Advocates of this view describe buddha-nature6 KB (996 words) - 19:08, 6 August 2020
- Recent Essays/Post-17 (redirect from Topic of the week/Post-17)to the notion of self, or ātman, was taught for the sake of helping those inferior beings who are scared of the negation of the self. He cites the Descent6 KB (805 words) - 12:06, 29 April 2022
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- Texts/Rdzogs pa chen po sems nyid ngal gso'i 'grel pa shing rta chen po (redirect from The Great Chariot: A Commentary on the Treatise on Great Perfection, Relaxation in the Nature of the Mind) (section Philosophical positions of this text)nature—the clear, pristine, and aware mind. Written in the fourteenth century, this text is the first volume of Longchenpa’s Trilogy of Rest, a work of the292 bytes (661 words) - 10:20, 9 July 2021
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- Books/When the Clouds Part/The ''Uttaratantra'' and Mahāmudrā (category Books/When the Clouds Part) (section The Sūtra Sources of Mahāmudrā)assembly [of students] through the stages of the path that come from the Kadam [tradition], while he guided the extraordinary [students] through the path of418 KB (66,501 words) - 16:36, 7 October 2020
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- forms of Madhyamaka, regarding the former as a system of other-emptiness and the latter as a system of self-emptiness. Instead of approaching the two systems14 bytes (5,135 words) - 17:36, 19 July 2018
- Texts/Ye shes kyi 'jog sa (redirect from The Repository of Wisdom) (section Description from When the Clouds Part)identical with the text of the same name (Ye shes kyi bzhag sa) mentioned in BA in the context of the early transmission of the five texts of Maitreya above8 KB (1,683 words) - 09:29, 9 September 2020
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- exploring the practical relevance of the Madhyamaka way of mind training. Part One of the book, "The General Presentation of Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition5 KB (1,674 words) - 17:10, 17 September 2020
- (684–762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch’an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T’ient’ai tradition; and the Huiyin13 bytes (22,023 words) - 15:18, 23 December 2019
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- engagements of the mind In the aspects of phenomena will cease. In the total pacification of the host of fabrications And on the matter of non-self, properly19 KB (2,161 words) - 09:49, 19 April 2021
- them. For the sake of conforming with the pattern of the respective initial two verses on each one of the three jewels in the text above and the following6 KB (15,260 words) - 16:59, 18 May 2023
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- from the dharmadhātu as the single principle and thus to behold the natural purity of the supramundane dharmakāya is asserted to be the seeing of the wisdom83 KB (14,858 words) - 11:29, 4 September 2020
- Books/Buddhist Cosmic Unity (redirect from Buddhist Cosmic Unity: An Edition, Translation and Study of the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta)evidence to decide). The basic structure of the sūtra is a refutation of wrong views, chief among them the question as to whether the number of sentient beings3 KB (652 words) - 20:07, 16 September 2020
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- attained the field of experience of the noble, they show themselves as the field of experience of the children. Hence means and compassion of the friends11 KB (2,447 words) - 15:40, 16 September 2020
- from the dharmadhātu as the single principle and thus to behold the natural purity of the supramundane dharmakāya is asserted to be the seeing of the wisdom134 KB (22,195 words) - 15:42, 16 September 2020
- People/Liu, M. (category Authors of English Works)that the idea of Buddha-nature, one of the central concepts in Chinese Buddhism, was first made popular in the country by the Mahāyāna version of the MNS14 bytes (2,005 words) - 18:07, 14 January 2020
- People/Jinpa, Thupten (category Professors,Translators,Editors,Tsadra Fellows and Grantees,Authors of English Works,Authors of Tibetan Works);Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler;Chöpel, Gendün Book Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes) The classic overview of the stages of the path62 bytes (5,655 words) - 17:08, 13 March 2020
- indestructible way of secret mantra, the essence of which is the indestructible union of wisdom (the understanding of emptiness) and method (immutable great bliss)13 KB (955 words) - 12:13, 31 January 2023
- Brunnhölzl: On the Views of Dolpopa, the 3rd Karmapa, and Different Views within the Kagyu School Brunnhölzl, Karl. "On the Views of Dolpopa, the 3rd Karmapa555 bytes (52,032 words) - 12:10, 31 January 2023
- viable way out of this apparent dilemma. The present article, which is the second of a two-part study on the problem of Buddha-nature in the MNS, is6 KB (981 words) - 17:08, 28 July 2020
- Music of the Sphere of Definitive Meaning: Detailed Explanation of the Mahamudra Prayer in Accordance with the Philosophy of the Great Emptiness-of-Other90 bytes (12,537 words) - 13:27, 1 September 2020
- Greater42 The Classification by Way of Realization43 The Phase of Heat 45 The Phase of Peak 46 The Phase of Endurance 49 The Phase of Supreme Dharma50 THE NATURE22 KB (3,031 words) - 23:38, 6 June 2023
- terms of (3) the topic of the fruition and (4) the topic of the function [of the tathāgata heart]. The fruition consists of the pāramitās that are The qualities29 KB (8,908 words) - 15:27, 16 September 2020
- generating realizations of the three vehicles. This is the naturally abiding lineage. In the system of the Middle Way School, the Buddha lineage, in general, is13 KB (2,116 words) - 14:21, 15 November 2019
- terms of (3) the topic of the fruition and (4) the topic of the function [of the tathāgata heart]. The fruition consists of the pāramitās that are The qualities20 KB (7,450 words) - 15:27, 16 September 2020
- Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition;Mi pham rgya mtsho Book The Buddha Nature: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha and Ālayavijñāna One of the fundamental13 bytes (12,362 words) - 15:41, 11 December 2019
- Texts/Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa (redirect from Sacred Teaching on the Single Intention) (section Philosophical positions of this text)revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention (Dgongs gcig), which presents the thought of the Buddha and the nature of the ineffable (brjod du med pa)318 bytes (2,913 words) - 10:46, 24 August 2020
- generating realizations of the three vehicles. This is the naturally abiding lineage. In the system of the Middle Way School, the Buddha lineage, in general14 KB (2,357 words) - 12:03, 31 January 2023
- Prolegomena to the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra and the Tathāgatagarbha Theory: The Role of Women in Buddhism The Śrīmālādevī siṁhanāda sūtra (ŚDS) (The Treatise on the Lion's14 bytes (3,230 words) - 15:07, 3 January 2020
- decrepitude, The Bodhisattvas have no calamity of birth and so forth; Still, because of the rising of Compassions towards the world, They assume the cause of calamities6 KB (1,094 words) - 12:30, 18 August 2020
- Books/When the Clouds Part/The Meditative Tradition of the Uttaratantra and Shentong (category Books/When the Clouds Part) (section The Shentong Lineages and the Meditative Tradition of the Uttaratantra in the Jonang, Kagyü, and Nyingma Schools)principle of all texts of Maitreya that what is to be known at the time of the ground, the object of the view at the time of the path, and the svābhāvikakāya93 KB (14,570 words) - 15:47, 5 October 2020
- Books/Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature/Buddha Nature (section The Mind's Potential according to the Pāli Tradition)nature of a tathāgata is the nature of sentient beings (22.16). Whatever is the essence of the Tathāgata, that is the essence of the transmigrator. The Tathāgata59 KB (9,431 words) - 12:04, 31 January 2023
- Books/Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes)/Part I: The Prime Cause (category Books/Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes))one infers the presence of fire through smoke and that of water through the presence of waterfowl, likewise the potential of the bodhisattva mentality is17 KB (2,476 words) - 12:03, 31 January 2023
- to [the way of engaging] of naive beings because they are mistaken in terms of discrimination, mind, and view. "Unmistaken" refers to [the way of engaging]8 KB (1,720 words) - 11:51, 8 September 2020
- Impermanence125 The impermanence of the outer world125 The impermanence of living beings126 PART THREE: The Gradual Path of the Three Kinds of Beings131 The Path16 KB (2,063 words) - 15:24, 9 November 2020
- Books/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Longchenpa on Buddha-Nature in the ''Great Chariot'', a commentary on ''Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind'' (category Books/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind)At the time when one is an ordinary being, the nature of the mind is, from the standpoint of appearance, in full possession of the qualities of the rūpakāya62 KB (10,462 words) - 12:02, 31 January 2023
- Articles/Who Were the Icchantikas? (category The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology)that the acquisition of the Supreme Purity is the result of 'Practice of the Faith in the Doctrine of Great Vehicle' by the Bodhisattvas.") The shift227 bytes (847 words) - 16:41, 23 June 2020
- Books/Awakening the Sleeping Buddha/Tai Situ on Buddha-Nature (category Books/Awakening the Sleeping Buddha) (section THE FULFILLMENT OF BUDDHA NATURE)connection between the ultimate and the relative. The ultimate is the ultimate of the relative and the relative is the relative of the ultimate. They are37 KB (6,069 words) - 12:01, 31 January 2023
- Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion (volume 2) This comprehensive guide to the body of Buddhist teachings3 KB (488 words) - 12:08, 31 January 2023
- another for the demise of the historical Buddha may have been one of the principal internal factors that contributed to the formation of the idea of the resolve1 KB (1,536 words) - 15:44, 3 November 2021