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Author	Ldan ma blo bzang chos dbyings
Display name	Denma Lobzang Choying
Page	Denma Lobzang Chöying
Sort date	1840
Date	1840–1910
Description	A nineteenth-century scholar from Drepung Loseling, who wrote a polemical work to refute Mipam Gyatso (1846-1912) on topics such as Madhyamaka philosophy and emptiness.
Description Tibetan
Text title	’Ju mi pham ’jam dbyangs rnam rgyal rgya mtsho’i rtsod yig gi lan blo dman snying gi gdung sel ga bur thig pa’i spun zla
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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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