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She is said to have been present at the so-called Samye Debate of the late eighth century when the Indian monk Kamalaśīla and Moheyan presented the relative merits of the Indian, or "gradual path" and the Chinese, or "sudden path" in a debate ...

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... These include Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya and works by Vasubhandu, Nagārjuna, Asaṅga, and Guṇaprabha, as well as works by his contemporaries in Tibet Vimalamitra and Kamalaśīla. ...

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Having fully comprehended the Madhyamaka teachings of Nāgārjuna, Rinchen Chok is said to have participated in the famous Samye debate, assisting Kamalaśīla in defeat of the Chinese master Hvashang Mahāyāna. ...

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... Candrakīrti and Buddhapālita's position that emptiness cannot be established through reasoning and that logic can only be used to refute all truth claims, came to be known as Prāsaṅgika (thal 'gyur ba), or "Consequentialists." The Svātantrika (rang rgyud pa), or "Autonomist" position, which holds that ultimate reality can be described with language, is associated by Tibetan scholars with the writings of Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla (713–763), as well as Bhāvaviveka. ...

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He translated Kamalaśīla's three Bhāvanākramas (D396-398), the famous treatises on the stages of the path of meditation ...

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The list given of the Indian masters who he met includes Śrī Siṃha, Vimalamitra, and Kamalaśīla, who ordained him ...

Read more from the biography of Nubchen Sanggye Yeshe