Bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma

བོད་སྤྲུལ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་

Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima(1898 - 1959)

Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima was a Nyingma teacher based primarily at Dzogchen and Gegong Monasteries in Kham. A holder of the scholastic tradition begun by Mipam Gyatso, he also taught for several years at Drigung. He was considered by some to be a reincarnation of Patrul Rinpoche.

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Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima: Notes on the Essential Points of Mipam’s Exposition of Buddha-Nature

Notes on Mipam's Lion’s Roar: Exposition of Buddha-Nature, by an influential 20th century Nyingma scholar that took great pains to uphold and further the legacy of Mipam's scholastic contributions.

Stong thun gnad kyi zin thun;Nyingma;Bde gshegs snying po'i stong thun chen mo seng+ge'i nga ro;Mi pham rgya mtsho;Bötrul Dongak Tenpai Nyima;བོད་སྤྲུལ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་;bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma;bod sprul;bod pa sprul sku mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma;thub bstan bshad sgrub thos bsam rgya mtsho;བོད་སྤྲུལ་;བོད་པ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་;ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཐོས་བསམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་;stong thun gnad kyi zin thun;སྟོང་ཐུན་གནད་ཀྱི་ཟིན་ཐུན།;སྟོང་ཐུན་གནད་ཀྱི་ཟིན་ཐུན།

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Introduction to Dzogchen and Buddha-Nature

Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to Dzogchen and Buddha-Nature." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, July 11, 2019. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_Dzogchen_and_Buddha-nature.

Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to Dzogchen and Buddha-Nature." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, July 11, 2019. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_Dzogchen_and_Buddha-nature.

Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to Dzogchen and Buddha-Nature." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, July 11, 2019. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_Dzogchen_and_Buddha-nature.;Introduction to Dzogchen and Buddha-Nature;Dzogchen;Nyingma;Morten Ostensen;&nbsp

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

Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?

Madhyamaka

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

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

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

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity

"Thus, from the point of view of emptiness, buddha nature is the empty dharmadhātu (the object) and from the point of view of appearance, it is the wisdom (the subject) that is not empty of the inseparable qualities of a buddha. Both these aspects are inseparable and are empty of the adventitious stains that represent the delusive appearances of saṃsāra." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, p. 75.

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

Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)

"...Pötrül says repeatedly that both the Madhyamakāvatāra and the Uttaratantra are scriptures of “the Great Prāsaṅgika Mahāyāna,” though he clearly rejects the Gelugpa understanding of this being the case because, he says, the Gelugpa position is solely based on a nonimplicative negation (the lack of real existence), while completely rejecting the notion of luminosity." Brunnhölzl, K., When the Clouds Part, p. 75.

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Other names

བོད་སྤྲུལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
བོད་པ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་ · other names (Tibetan)
ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཐོས་བསམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
bod sprul · other names (Wylie)
bod pa sprul sku mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma · other names (Wylie)
thub bstan bshad sgrub thos bsam rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

Nyingma · religious affiliation
Studied at Dzogchen Monastery's Śrī Siṃha monastic college (shrI sing+ha bshad drwa) and served as abbot of Gegong monastery (rdza rgyud dge mang bshad grwa) for 8 years. · primary professional affiliation
Kun bzang dpal ldan · teacher
g.yu khog bya bral chos dbyings rang grol · teacher
'jigs med yon tan mgon po · teacher
Nyoshul Khenpo · student
Mkhan po 'jigs med phun tshogs · student
rdzogs chen mkhan po zla ba'i 'od zer · student
Tarthang Tulku · student
rdzogs chen mkhan po thub bstan brtson grus · student