Ideas

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Core Research Topics

Key Binaries

  • Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
  • All beings have Buddha-nature
  • Which Wheel Turning
  • Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
  • Zhentong vs Rangtong
  • Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
  • Promotes how many vehicles?
  • Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
  • What is Buddha-nature?
    • Buddha-nature as the Emptiness That is a Nonimplicative Negation
    • Buddha-nature as Mind's Luminous Nature
    • Buddha-nature as the Alaya Consciousness
    • Buddha-nature as a Sentient Being
    • Buddha-nature as the Dharmakaya
    • Buddha-nature as Suchness
    • Buddha-nature as the Disposition
    • Buddha-nature as Nonconceptuality

Interesting Areas of Debate

Zhentong