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|text=In the following excerpt from ''The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva'', Wulstan Fletcher and Helena Blankleder of the Padmakara Translation Group outline Mipham's Interpretation of Madhyamaka, his commentary to the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', and his response to criticism. | |text=In the following excerpt from ''The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva'', Wulstan Fletcher and Helena Blankleder of the Padmakara Translation Group outline Mipham's Interpretation of Madhyamaka, his commentary to the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', and his response to criticism. | ||
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followers' defense of his system from Taktsang Lotsawa's charge that Tsongkhapa really was a Svātantrika."<ref>Vose, ''Resurrecting Candrakīrti'', 222n78.</ref> Whether this fact is viewed in a positive or negative light depends, of course, on one's assessment of the relative validity of the Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika systems. And it need hardly be added that if the description of Tsongkhapa as a Svātantrika is perceived as a criticism, it is so only according to an alleged hierarchy of views for which Tsongkhapa was himself largely responsible. Of course, it could be argued that the system of Tsongkhapa is indeed Prāsaṅgika; and this is surely true in the sense that | followers' defense of his system from Taktsang Lotsawa's charge that Tsongkhapa really was a Svātantrika."<ref>Vose, ''Resurrecting Candrakīrti'', 222n78.</ref> Whether this fact is viewed in a positive or negative light depends, of course, on one's assessment of the relative validity of the Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika systems. And it need hardly be added that if the description of Tsongkhapa as a Svātantrika is perceived as a criticism, it is so only according to an alleged hierarchy of views for which Tsongkhapa was himself largely responsible. Of course, it could be argued that the system of Tsongkhapa is indeed Prāsaṅgika; and this is surely true in the sense that | ||
he himself understood this term. The problem is that no one, apart from the Gelugpas, share this understanding.<ref>A clear discussion ofthe Svātantrika elements in Gelugpa Prāsaṅgika can be found in Brunnhölzl, ''Center of the Sunlit Sky'', 190-91.</ref> | he himself understood this term. The problem is that no one, apart from the Gelugpas, share this understanding.<ref>A clear discussion ofthe Svātantrika elements in Gelugpa Prāsaṅgika can be found in Brunnhölzl, ''Center of the Sunlit Sky'', 190-91.</ref> | ||
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