People/'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po

Jikten Gönpo

འབྲི་གུང་སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་

1143 - 1217

Jikten Gonpo Rinchen Pel ('jig rten mgon po rin chen dpal) is credited with the founding of Drigung Til Monastery in 1179 and the establishment of the Drigung Kagyu tradition. He was a close disciple of Pakmodrupa and briefly administered Densatil following Pakmodrupa's death. His close disciple was Sherab Jungne.

He was born to an illustrious clan called the Kyura (skyu ra) at a town in Kham called Tsungu (tsu ngu), in 1123. He studied with teachers from many traditions and completed many years of retreat, after which he took monastic vows in 1177...

"...Jikten Gonpo and his Drigung lineage are best known for the set of teachings known as The Five Profound Paths of Mahāmudrā (phyag chen lnga ldan). Some of his sayings were collected by Sherab Jungne into what is known as the Single Intention (dgongs gcig), teachings of a profoundly philosophical character further developed in commentarial works written in the following generation. Some of Jikten Gonpo's teachings were collected by yet another disciple into what is known as the Heart of the Great Vehicle's Teachings (theg chen bstan pa'i snying po)..."
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Philosophical positions of this person

Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?

Definitive 

Do all beings have buddha-nature?

 

To which "turning of the wheel" do the buddha-nature teachings belong?

  Third Turning

Mathes, K., A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 42.

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Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?

 

Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?

 

Are there one or three vehicles on the path to buddhahood?

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Mathes, K., A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 42.

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Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?

 

What is Buddha-nature?

  Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra)

"The [buddha] element in sentient beings makes enlightenment attainable. This enlightenment is attained gradually and not instantaneously..." Mathes, K., A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 42.

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Does the author advocate the Svatantrika or Prasangika view of emptiness?

 

Other names

• འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• རིན་ཆེན་དཔལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• འབྲི་གུང་གདན་རབས་༠༡་ · other names (Tibetan)
• 'jig rten mgon po · other names (Wylie)
• rin chen dpal · other names (Wylie)
• 'jig rten gsum mgon · other names (Wylie)
• 'bri gung gdan rabs 01 · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Drikung Kagyu · religious affiliation
• phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po · teacher
• nil · student