Jonang

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Jonang is a foremost custodian of the Kalachakra tantra and its calendrical and contemplative systems.

Buddhahood is described as the uncovering of a reality already fully present, which follows from the other-emptiness reading.

Designed and commissioned by Taranatha, the Jonang tradition's foremost scholar, for his own monastic seat, and based on his own literary account of the Buddha's life.

Shentong is the Jonang position and the school is identified with it: Dolpopa taught that ultimate reality is empty of everything extraneous to it but not of its own nature, against the reading that it is empty of any nature at all.

Emptiness is affirmed and then divided: conventional things are empty of their own nature, ultimate reality is empty only of the conventional, which is the move the other Tibetan schools reject.

The Two Truths are read through this school's own shentong, other-emptiness, interpretation, distinct from the rangtong reading dominant elsewhere in Tibetan Buddhism.

The three poisons are held in the Jonang school.

Not-self is held in the Jonang school, applied to persons and to conditioned phenomena while the ultimate is held to be empty only of what is extraneous to it.

Impermanence is held in the Jonang school.

The intermediate state is held in the Jonang school.

The bodhisattva motivation is held in the Jonang school.

Giving is held in the Jonang school as the first of the perfections.

Dependent origination is held in the Jonang school.

Dharma is held in the Jonang school in the Mahayana sense.

Suffering is held in the Jonang school.

Karma is held in the Jonang school.

Nirvana is held in the Jonang school, with full buddhahood as the goal.

Collected absorption is held in the Jonang school.

Samsara is held in the Jonang school.

Shentong, emptiness of other: ultimate reality is empty of what is adventitious to it, and is itself not empty. The Jonang are the school this reading is named with.

The five aggregates are held in the Jonang school.

The four immeasurables are held in the Jonang school.

The four truths are held in the Jonang school.

The eightfold path is held in the Jonang school.

The six realms are held in the Jonang school.

The three jewels and going for refuge are held in the Jonang school.

The three marks are held in the Jonang school.

Tantric practice under a qualified teacher is held in the Jonang school, and the Kalachakra transmission is the school's central one: its completion stage is the practice Dolpopa's account of emptiness was developed to describe.

The perfections are held in the Jonang school as the common path.

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