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1 2010 April 21 - Perfection of Wisdom Course – Class 9

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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)


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


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.


ACTUAL ANTIDOTE TO DELUSIONS – CORRECT REASONING

DEBATE TEXTS

DELUSIONS ARISE ‘BECAUSE’ OF INCORRECT REASONING


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


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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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).


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}


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


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)


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)


[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.


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.


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


SIX MOTHERS & ELEVEN SONS


THREE PRINCIPAL SUTRA SOURCES OF THE ORNAMENT FOR CLEAR REALIZATIONS

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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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