Rangtong

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Rangtong (T. rang stong) is a philosophical view within Tibetan Buddhism that advocates that the "nature of mind" is best described as empty (sunyata) of all qualities.

The rangtong view is distinguished from the shentong view. The rangtong view is that all phenomena are unequivocally empty of self-nature, without positing anything beyond that. By contrast, according to the shentong view, the emptiness of ultimate reality should not be characterized in the same way as the emptiness of apparent phenomena because it is prabhāsvara-saṃtāna, or "luminous mindstream" endowed with limitless Buddha qualities.[1]

Jamgong Kongtrul worked to synthesis the two views (rangtong and shentong); see

Notes

  1. Lama Shenpen, Emptiness Teachings. Buddhism Connect


Further reading

  • Hookham, S.K. (1991). The Buddha within : Tathagatagarbha doctrine according to the Shentong interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0791403587. 

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