{"product_id":"brunnholzl-indian-and-tibetan-shentong-pdf","title":"Brunnholzl Indian and Tibetan Shentong (PDF)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThrangu Rinpoche has taught about the two different beliefs about emptiness found in the Ttibetan literature. One is Rangtong which is that emptiness is complete nothingness and is mainly hald by the Gelug lineage. The other is Shentong which is that this emptiness not simply a voidness because it also contains buddha nature. Below is a quote from Brunnholzl who is one of the modern main advocates of the Shentong view.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\"The materials presented in this book are the combined outcome of several \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003einitially distinct strands of my interest and research in works of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism over the years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eIn that vein, it became apparent that both Vasubandhu and Sthiramati \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003ewere familiar with the threefold division of all phenomena in the \"Maitreya \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eChapter,\" discussing it in their commen-taries on the \u003cem\u003eMadhyatavibhiiga\u003c\/em\u003e and equating this threefold division with the three natures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eIn my research of prajnaparamita literature, I also studied the eight preserved Indian commentaries on the Prajnaparamita-hrdaya-sutra, finding that some of them exhibit quite unexpected and interesting interpretations of certain key phrases of this sutra that are based on Yogacara and tathagatagarbha teachings.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46262650175624,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/2121\/3576\/files\/BrunnholzlIndianandTibetanShentong2copy.png?v=1785541718","url":"https:\/\/namobuddhapublications.org\/products\/brunnholzl-indian-and-tibetan-shentong-pdf","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}