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Rangjung dorje's variegations of mind: ordinary awareness and pristine awareness in tibetan buddhist literature

Michael R. Sheehy

DOI: 10.31231/osf.io/2cnfg_v1 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Topics Buddhism
Key points Examines Tibetan Buddhist contemplative and psychological accounts of ordinary awareness (rnam shes) in relation to pristine awareness (ye shes), based on a seminal text by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339).

Abstract

Examination of Tibetan Buddhist contemplative and psychological understandings of the operations of ordinary awareness (rnam shes) in comparison with pristine awareness (ye shes), based on a seminal text by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339).

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