Tenets, Prasangika (Tenet differences on person/ 3 devisions on impermanent phenomena/difference in realization)

Question 1

!!!What are the substantial and putative person for Prasangika and the lower schools

Answer 1

Prasangika:
there is no substantial person, person is just how the conventional world accepts a person. Beyond that there is nothing else to be found as a person. There is only the putative self, not a substantial self!

Prasangika:
They don’t accept the mental conciousness as the self, therefore the person should always be non compositional phenomena

Lower schools, when talking about person, they talk about a putative person. Putative person is an impermanent phenomena.

Lower schools:
Substantial person is mostly identified as the mental conciousness. The substantial person falls under the category of mind with respect to the 3 devisions of impermanent phenomena.

Question 2

!!! State and explain the 3 divisions of impermanent phenomena and composite phenomena

Answer 2

1. Form (physical)
2. Conciousness/mind (happy, sad, angry, etc.mental state)
3. Non associated compositional factors (I have hands, I am not hand, person has body, but is not body, ==> that person is composed of body and mind
   ==> composite phenomena.

What is a composite phenomena should necessarily be impermanent!

NON ASSOCIATED COMPOSITIONAL PHENOMENA
==>
Phenomena of impermanent nature (synonymous with compositional factor), which is not associated as either form or as mind
F.ex.: Self, time, impermanence, imprints, tendencies, …

Question 3

!!!!What is the uniqueness of the Prasangika philosophy?

Answer 3

Emptiness and functionality:
While accepting emptiness and rejecting objective existence (emptiness of objective reality), one still accepts the functionality of the world as infallibly precise. (through the reasoning of dependent origination)
===»> That unity is the uniqueness of the Prasangika philosophy

Question 4

What is the meaning of emptiness and dependent origination for Prasangika?

Answer 4

===»> Emptiness means nothing exists independently/all is dependent originated
===»> Dependent origination means, where you reject the 2 extremes = middle way!
Emptiness is not Nihilism it is dependent origination.

Question 5

!!!What is the remedy to destruct the defilements (ignorance) that blocks our Buddha nature?

Answer 5

Wisdom to see the ultimate reality counteracts ignorance!
This wisdom must be driven by powerful enthusiasm of the Bodhicitta!
The 2 wings of the bird, wisdom and Bodhicitta to cross the ocean of samsara!!

The Bodhicitta side like the 2 methods to arise Bodhicitta is for all buddhist schools the same.

REMEMER:
The method (BODHICITTA) side in all buddhist schools is the same, but the wisdom side in the Prasangika school is very different/unique ==>

While accepting emptiness and rejecting objective existence (emptiness of objective reality), one still accepts the functionality of the world as infallibly precise. (through the reasoning of dependent origination)

Question 6

Who wrote the book: The precious Garland which we have been studying?

Answer 6

The Precious Garland – the concise composition of non-Buddhist and Buddhist tenet systems - was composed by the monk Konchok Jigmey Wangpo.