Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t3: gZhan stong gi lta ba
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t3
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gZhan stong gi lta ba
v1.c7.s6.t3.1
gzhan stong gi lta ba (The View of Other Emptiness): It is the basic doctrine of Jonang sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It separates from many schools of Tibetan Buddhism and other school observes the view of self-emptiness of Madhyamika.
v1.c7.s6.t3.2
“Self-emptiness” differs from “other emptiness” in terms of cognition mainly ie dissimilarities and similarities between common statement and ultimate truth. Secular things come from conditions, while conditional causation will not have self body, which is called as secular phenomena which don't exist ie all things are void. The Jonang sect thinks that substances existing are described as “voidness” by wrong realisation or analysis of people to deny absolute substances existing; the supreme *dharma* nature is the unchanging truth permanently and the environment for intelligence enlightenment ie supreme existence. That is to say, the ultimate truth is formless, cannot be described with words, and is far from all meaningless statements so the ultimate truth is the supreme reality.
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Jonang sect thinks that nirvana is the permanent dharma, and it exists permanently. It is far from worries and those who ignore worries cannot reach nirvana. Intelligence must be meditated to cultivate Bodhisattva heart and those who observe doctrines can get rid of unenlightened worries and see nirvana.
v1.c7.s6.t3.4
The ideology of Takongjian
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**Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Final Unique Quintessential Instructions** fully expounds Buddhist thought of the view of other emptiness. For example, the ultimate truth of other emptiness is unchanged permanently, the world of feeling has the same meaning as Tathagata-garbha which is the foundation of all things and cannot be empty absolutely. Jonang sect admits that immaterial nature which is conditional, it is the law of mutual causation of all actions, is delusive and unreal and belongs to secular truth, just as the fact that the non-existence is self-empty. while the self-existence of the ultimate truth isn’t empty, so it is other emptiness.
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Jonang sect thinks that emptiness is existence of heart itself, light is language, and the unity of the two is “enlightenment” (heart). This kind of division method is same as the division of three bodies: real existence of heart is the body with infinite spiritual potential (Dammar body); light is the reward body, and its representation form is the embodiment. Once sublime intelligence (intelligence god) appears, illusive phenomena will stop. If there are illusive phenomena on the contrary, intelligence will suspend. The world of things is unreal and things are just some phenomena, which are only caused by heart. There are no any persons meditating, and something that can be meditated can’t exist because meditator and the meditated are just a lighting characteristic of thought.
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(*Kalsang gyal*)