འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་བློ་གྲོས་སམ། གཡུང་དྲུང་རྒྱལ་པོ། Stéphane Arguillère

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . “This is, in short,] the system of the ‘vast’ [1] Path, [whose presentation] is elegant (mdzes pa) and correct in this [idealistic] system [2] . Therefore, the scriptures...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.2.2.3. The paratantra, absolute or superficial? – The existence of a “remainder” or partial (nyi tshe ba) emptiness Let us return to the presentation given by Mi...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . ***2.2.2. The two realities in the idealist system according to ’Ju Mi pham, or the absolute as anirreducible residue There is no need to go into the details of the...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.2. The two realities, the absolute and the knowledge of the absolute 2.2.1. Summary of the distinction between the doctrines of Klong chen rab ’byams and Dol po...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.1.3. A system of systems This dimension of hierarchical tiering of doctrines exists within Klong chen pa’s work. But here again, we must be careful not to take...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . Having made this clarification, one has guarded against two ruinous pitfalls: either the idea that Klong chen rab ’byams would seek to flatten the Great Completeness...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.1.2. General nature of Klong chen rab ’byams’ system Klong chen rab ’byams’ system, like that of all the great philosophers of Tibet, combines many features borrowed...

To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . As far as doctrine is concerned, to anticipate in a word a conclusion that I will have to demonstrate next, Klong chen rab ’byams differs from any other Tibetan philosopher...

2.1 Introduction 2.1.1. General presentation The strangeness of Klong chen rab '’byams’ work cannot fail to strike any reader, provided he is otherwise accustomed to Mahāyāna philosophy. The peculiarities of his doctrine lie in both form and content....

To get back to the first section of this series about Lonchen Rabjam's writings, click here . 1.2.3. Conclusion : reasoned inventory of works It is not possible, in the present state of research, to arrive at a more precise chronology of all the writings...

འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་བློ་གྲོས་སམ། གཡུང་དྲུང་རྒྱལ་པོ། Stéphane Arguillère

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (9) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (8) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (7) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (6) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (5) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (4) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (3) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (2) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (1) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]

What did Longchen Rabjam actually write and what is the chronology of his writings ? (5)