Zab mo gzhan stong dbu ma'i brgyud 'debs

ཟབ་མོ་གཞན་སྟོང་དབུ་མའི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས།

zab mo gzhan stong dbu ma'i brgyud 'debs

Supplication to the Profound Other-Emptiness Madhyamaka Lineage

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Tāranātha's lineage supplication to the other-emptiness Madhyamaka tradition that was preserved by the Jonang school. Tāranātha traces the origin of the other-emptiness to the Buddha, who passed it down through Maitreya, Asaṅga, Vasubandhu to Maitripa or from Vasubandhu through Sthiramati, Guṇamāti, et al. to Maitrīpa, or from Buddha through Vajrapaṇi, Rahulabhadra, Nāgārjuna, Śabari, Maitrīpa, from Maitrīpa through Anandakīrti, Ratnakaraśānti, Sajjṇāna, Anandavajra, then in Tibet through Tsen Khawoche, et al. until Tāranātha.

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Zab mo gzhan stong dbu ma'i brgyud 'debs. (Supplication to the Profound Other-Emptiness Madhyamaka Lineage). Recension information:

Tibetan

TA ra nA tha. ཟབ་མོ་གཞན་སྟོང་དབུ་མའི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས།, (Zab mo gzhan stong dbu ma'i brgyud 'debs). In Gsung 'bum/ tA ra nA tha (Rtag brtan phun tshongs gling gi par ma), Vol. 4: 483-489. Leh: C. Namgyal and Tsewang Taru, 1982-1987. In Gsung 'bum/ tA ra nA tha ('Dzam thang par ma), Vol. 18: 3-8. 'Dzam thang; Dzam thang dgon, 199-. In Gsung 'bum/ shes rab rgyal mtshan ('Dzam thang), Vol. 3: 159-168. 'Dzam thang: 'Dzam thang bsam 'grub nor bu'i gling gi par khang, 199-. In Dpal jo nang ba'i zhal 'don phyogs bsgrigs. Pe cin: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2002: 365-376. In Rdzogs ldan chos mchog dbu ma gzhan stong gi chos skor. Shang kang: Shang kang then mA dpe skrun khang, 2005: 20-24. In Gsung 'bum/ tA ra nA tha (Dpe bsdur ma), Vol. 36: 1-5. Pe cin: Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang, 2008. In Rnam grol 'dod 'jo ris med dpe rnying khang gi tshad ldan nges don dpe tshogs, Vol. 4: 1-8. Zi ling: Rnam grol 'dod 'jo dpe rnying khang, 2007-2009.

Philosophical positions of this text

Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?

Definitive 

Does this text belong to definitive or provisional meaning?

Definitive 

Do all beings have buddha-nature?

Yes 

To which "turning of the wheel" do the buddha-nature teachings belong?

Third Turning 

Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?

Madhyamaka 

Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?

Zhentong 

Are there one or three vehicles on the path to buddhahood?

1 

Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?

Meditative Tradition 

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities) 

Does the author advocate the Svatantrika or Prasangika view of emptiness?

Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་) 

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Literary Genre	~ Supplications - gsol 'debs