LIFE OF JE ATISHA: A Mind-Only Yogācāra Madhyamaka Proponent who engaged in yogic conduct (tul-zhug): 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Day 1, 2025 continued))

"Avadhūtīpa the elder (chenpo) was from the Yogācāra Madhyamaka school. This seems to be the reason why Atisha upheld the views of the Yogacara Madhyamaka view. Once there were some Tibetan lamas who asked Atisha, the reasons why he holds the Yogacara Madhyamaka view? In response, Atisha said: “I asked exactly the same question to… Continue reading LIFE OF JE ATISHA: A Mind-Only Yogācāra Madhyamaka Proponent who engaged in yogic conduct (tul-zhug): 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Day 1, 2025 continued))

A ‘MASTERPIECE’ TIBETAN DEFENCE AND REVIVAL OF YOGACĀRĀ ‘MIND-ONLY’: Extensive Commentary on Indian master Vasubandhu’s ‘Thirty Verses of Mind-Only’ by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Introduction/Day 1, January 2022)

"As we have made the Mind (or awareness)-Only the opponent in the Middle Way's texts, we say it is a bad philosophy and we think that Nāgārjuna completely finished off the Mind-Only school and totally defeated them. Yet this blocks the door of our beginning to really investigate the Mind-Only school properly." "In Tibetan, we… Continue reading A ‘MASTERPIECE’ TIBETAN DEFENCE AND REVIVAL OF YOGACĀRĀ ‘MIND-ONLY’: Extensive Commentary on Indian master Vasubandhu’s ‘Thirty Verses of Mind-Only’ by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Introduction/Day 1, January 2022)

Introduction The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, is currently giving an online teaching on the origins and history of the Mind-Only, or Yogachara school of philosophy. as part of a two week teaching on Vasabhandu's Mind-Only text, the Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā (Chinese: 唯識三十論頌; Wéishí sānshí lùn sòng; Japanese: Yuishiki sanjūronju; Korean: 유식삼십송), also known simply as the Triṃśikā or by its English… Continue reading DON’T BE LIKE ‘A FROG IN A WELL’: SANSKRIT-CHINESE TRANSLATORS, THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING OPEN MINDS AND STUDYING OTHER LANGUAGES AND VIEWS. Mind-Only Teachings by 17th Karmapa (Day 5)