Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t6: Lam vbras
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Lam vbras
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The Way and Result (lam vbras) is the Core doctrine of the Sagya sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Sagya Sect is a school with different thoughts. The masters including Saban Gongaji, Tshig don and their followers promoted Svatantrika Madhyamika concepts while the masters including Rendawa Zhonu Lodro held Prasangika Madhyamaka concepts even later monks held Mind-Only concepts as well as advocated the thought of "the wrong view concerning unrealness of the attributes", and many eminent monks cultivated "great perfection" of Ningmapa Sect. The core doctrine ie the distinctive view of the school is "the way of result". There are exoteric and esoteric contents.
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In the aspect of exoteric Buddhism, it contains Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka thoughts and is related to Maitreya Buddhist thoughts. Madhyamaka thoughts are highlighted by "the first is to break non-blessing, the second is to break egocentrism, and the last is to break all views".
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In the aspect of esoteric Buddhism, characteristics such as the union of knowledge and emptiness as well as the absolute birth, death and nirvana of human heart shall be proved and enlightened through systematic cultivation; absolute reality of the innate intelligence shall be realised to reach the realm of the unity between the Buddha and self. The cultivation processes are to find general properties of human heart firstly, and seek the way from "clear heart" to "empty heart" secondly, realised the secret of "the union of knowledge and emptiness", thirdly as well as prove and understand the characteristics of original nature including absences of position, colour, shape and substance etc. Sagya sect holds the opinion that heart has two characteristics: firstly, it is twined by a mess; secondly, its nature is the innate intelligence. Therefore, birth and death is for not knowing self heart while nirvana is for knowing self/ heart.
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Because heart is often disturbed by confusion, people cannot understand properties of natural intelligence of heat usually and they will know that birth and death don't differ from nirvana naturally
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The documents on Mixuxue published by the Beijing Minzu Chubanshe.
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and obtain Buddha’s fruit once they understand characteristics of the innate intelligence so the cultivation concept that "all things are misrepresentations of the mind, all things and the mind are misrepresentations of illusion and all illusions are void". This cultivation concept explains that the existence of environment is denied by heart, the existence of heart is denied by illusion, and the existence of illusion is denied by arising from conditional causation, which conforms to the concept of "non-differentiation among birth, death and nirvana" and verifies the truth that they don’t run against one other and words cannot express the enlightenment of the realm, and it can be verified in cultivation practice truly.
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(*Kalsang gyal*)