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1 2010 April 21 - Perfection of Wisdom Course – Class 9
Table of Contents
Class 9 — April 21, 2010 — Friday
DELUSIONS – “BUDDHISM IS ALL ABOUT JIHAD”
ACTUAL ANTIDOTE TO DELUSIONS – CORRECT REASONING
REVIEW GYELTSAB JE’S INTRODUCTION COVERED IN PREVIOUS CLASSES
COMMENTARY ON MAITREYA’S GREAT VEHICLE TREATISE ON THE SUBLIME CONTINUUM (MAHAYANOTTARA-TANTRASASTRA), a/k/a THE UTTARATANTRA
CHANDRAKIRTI - TRAIL-BLAZER OF THE MIDDLE WAY-CONSEQUENTIALIST (PRASANGIKA)
BHAVAVEVIKA - TRAIL-BLAZER OF THE MIDDLE WAY- AUTONOMY (SVANTANTRIKA)
Middle Way Autonomy Sub-Schools: Sutric-Autonomy (Sautrantika-Svantantrika) and Yogic-Autonomy (Yogacara-Svantantrika)
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DISTINGUISHING SUTRIC-AUTONOMY & YOGACARA-AUTONOMY ASSERTIONS
BHAVAVEVIKA - MIDDLE WAY - SUTRIC-AUTONOMY (Sautrantika Svantantrika) TRAIL-BLAZER
SHANTARAKSHITA - MIDDLE WAY - YOGIC-AUTONOMY (Yogacara-Svantantrika) TRAIL-BLAZER
Mind Only (Chittamatra) Sub-Schools: TRUE ASPECTARIAN (Satyakaravadin Chittamatra) and FALSE ASPECTARIAN (Alikakaravadin Chittamatra)
DISTINGUISHING TRUE ASPECTARIANV (SATYAKARAVADIN) & TRUE ASPECTARIAN (ALIKAKARAVADIN)
MIND ONLY (CHITTAMATRA) ASSERTIONS
Sutra Sources for the Ornament for Clear Realizations
SIX MOTHERS & ELEVEN SONS
THREE PRINCIPAL SUTRA SOURCES OF THE ORNAMENT FOR CLEAR REALIZATIONS
SANSKRIT TEXTS’ EXPLANATORY METHOD OF FIVE LIMBS
FIVE LIMBS/FIVE BRANCHES OF THE ORNAMENT FOR CLEAR REALIZATIONS
1. PURPOSE.
2. SUMMARY.
3. LITERAL MEANING
4. TRANSITIONAL VERSES
5. OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES
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Ornament for Clear Realization —.Perfection of Wisdom Studies
Class 9 — April 21, 2010 — Friday
Institute for Buddhist Dialectics, McLeod Ganj, India
Teacher - VEN. KELSANG WANGMO
DELUSIONS – “BUDDHISM IS ALL ABOUT JIHAD”
Class members offer various suggestsions.
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ACTUAL ANTIDOTE TO DELUSIONS – CORRECT REASONING
DEBATE TEXTS
DELUSIONS ARISE ‘BECAUSE’ OF INCORRECT REASONING
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GYELTSAB JE’s INTRODUCTION to the ESSENCE
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REVIEW GYELTSAB JE’S INTRODUCTION COVERED IN PREVIOUS CLASSES
listed in the Introduction
COMMENTARY ON MAITREYA’S GREAT VEHICLE TREATISE ON THE SUBLIME CONTINUUM
(MAHAYANOTTARA-TANTRASASTRA), a/k/a THE UTTARATANTRA
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The Great Vehicle Treatise on the Sublime Continuum (Mahayanottara-tantrasastra) explained that
(i) those who have ripened their continua through familiarization with the modes of Cognition-Only {Mind Only} should be taught later and those Mahayana lineage-bearers of supreme faculties should be taught right from the very start, and that
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. Continuum – {æ+-
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EXTENSIVE, MEDIUM AND BRIEF PERFECTION OF WISDOM SUTRAS
(ii) the extensive, medium, and brief [Perfection of Wisdom] Sutras
UNIQUE MIDDLE WAY-CONSEQUENTIALIST (PRASANGIKA) ASSERTION: FUNDAMENTAL VEHICLE
METHOD PRACTITIONERS MUST REALIZE EMPTINESS TO ATTAIN NIRVANA
Only three Perfection of Wisdom Sutras are the principal sutra sources of the Ornament for Clear Realization. Those three are the:
1. Extensive Sutra – (Perfection of Wisdom in) One Hundred Thousand (Verses)
2. Middling Sutra - (Perfection of Wisdom in) Twenty Thousand (Verses)
3. Brief Sutra - (Perfection of Wisdom in) Eight Thousand (Verses).
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and the Matrix of the One-Gone-Thus4 Sutra (Aryatathagatagarbhanamamaha-yansutra)
clearly teach there is no difference in the object of observation of the path that must definitely be realized—the emptiness of true existence of all phenomena, the ultimate truth free from all elaborations—even for those who attain the enlightenment of hearers and the enlightenment of the solitary realizers.
4 “Matrix of the One-Gone-Thus,” also rendered as “Tathagata Essence,” refers to what is more commonly known as “buddha nature.”
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{Mind Only}
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Arya Asanga’s Commentary on Maitreya’s Uttaratantra shows:
ARYA ASANGA, HIMSELF, WAS A MIDDLE WAY-CONSEQUENTIALIST (PRASANGIKA) TENET-HOLDER
Acharya Asanga clarified its intention exactly as it is in its commentary,
i.e., from a Prasangika perspective
whereby you should not think of him as divided from the Protector Nagarjuna,
the views of
the opener of the chariot tracks {Nagarjuna, himself} who relied upon the first mode for differentiating between the interpretable and the definitive, because he is a follower of [Nagarjuna] himself. The assertion that Sublime Continuum {the Uttaratantra} was commentated upon in the manner of Cognition-Only by the Acarya is incorrect,
ONE FINAL VEHICLE
because it seriously contradicts (a) the proof that there is one final vehicle and (b) the extensive determination of subtle emptiness in that commentary.
a Prasangika assertion
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from the last class
MAITREYA’S ORNAMENT FOR CLEAR REALIZATIONS
In this treatise Ornament for Clear Realization (Abhisamayalamkara), the final view of emptiness is taught again and again. However, the main object to be determined is the stages of clear realization of the three lineage-bearers; it clearly reveals the way to practice by means of the three: definite entity, definite number and definite sequence—the hidden meaning of the three, the extensive, medium, and brief [Perfection of Wisdom] Sutras abiding within.
PATHS OF THE THREE LINEAGE BEARERS: THREE KNOWERS (KNOWERS OF BASIS, PATHS &
ASPECTS)
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DEFINITE ENTITY, DEFINITE NUMBER, DEFINITE SEQUENCE
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HARIBHADRA – A MIDDLE WAY-AUTONOMY-YOGIC (SVANTANTRIKA-YOGACARA) PROPONENT
autrantika
Fundamental Vehicle Q&A
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CHANDRAKIRTI - TRAIL-BLAZER OF THE MIDDLE WAY-CONSEQUENTIALIST (PRASANGIKA)
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[He] expound[ed] (through the citation of texts and through reasoning) that
there is not even a particle that exists inherently, and that actions and their
agents are feasible by conventionally being mere name and mere imputation.
and that actions and their agents are feasible by conventionally being mere
name and mere imputation.
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BHAVAVEVIKA - TRAIL-BLAZER OF THE MIDDLE WAY- AUTONOMY (SVANTANTRIKA)
(through the citation of texts and through reasoning) that there is not even a
particle that exists truly, and conventionally inherently existent actions and
their agents are feasible.
Middle Way Autonomy Sub-Schools: Sutric-Autonomy (Sautrantika-
Svantantrika) and Yogic-Autonomy (Yogacara-Svantantrika)
DISTINGUISHING SUTRIC-AUTONOMY & YOGACARA-AUTONOMY ASSERTIONS
EXTERNAL EXISTENCE
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SELF-KNOWER
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BHAVAVEVIKA - MIDDLE WAY - SUTRIC-AUTONOMY (Sautrantika Svantantrika) TRAIL-BLAZER
(through the citation of texts and through reasoning) that external phenomena
do exist and that there is no Self-Knower.
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SHANTARAKSHITA - MIDDLE WAY - YOGIC-AUTONOMY (Yogacara-Svantantrika) TRAIL-BLAZER
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Mind Only (Chittamatra) Sub-Schools: TRUE ASPECTARIAN (Satyakaravadin
Chittamatra) and FALSE ASPECTARIAN (Alikakaravadin Chittamatra)
DISTINGUISHING TRUE ASPECTARIANV (SATYAKARAVADIN) & TRUE ASPECTARIAN
(ALIKAKARAVADIN) MIND ONLY (CHITTAMATRA) ASSERTIONS
VASUBANDHU - TRAIL-BLAZER OF THE MIND ONLY TRUE ASPECTARIAN SCHOOL
the appearance of gross form to the eye consciousness
in the continuum of an ordinary person exists as rough form the way it
appears.
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DIGNAGA - TRAIL-BLAZER OF THE MIND ONLY FALSE ASPECTARIAN SCHOOL
the appearance of gross form to the eye consciousness in the continuum of an
ordinary person does not exist as rough form the way it appears.
Sutra Sources for the Ornament for Clear Realizations
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SIX MOTHERS & ELEVEN SONS
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THREE PRINCIPAL SUTRA SOURCES OF THE ORNAMENT FOR CLEAR REALIZATIONS
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SANSKRIT TEXTS’ EXPLANATORY METHOD OF FIVE LIMBS
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FIVE LIMBS/FIVE BRANCHES OF THE ORNAMENT FOR CLEAR REALIZATIONS
1. PURPOSE.
2. SUMMARY.
3. LITERAL MEANING
4. TRANSITIONAL VERSES
5. OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES
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