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Now this is interesting: "Moreover, if negation applies only to true existence, and the appearance of the basis of negation is not eliminated, then emptiness of true existence would require the existence of something else—the basis of negation. Thus, emptiness would not be an absolute negation, as Gelugpas hold it to be, but an implicative negation (ma yin dgag)."
— Jan 26, 2026 08:32AM
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Mesoscope
is on page 298 of 592
Point three of Mipham's eight points is much more helpful and interesting - he clarifies the difference between the correct view and, for example, conceiving of an inexpressible ultimate that exists but is indescribable, or imagining nothingness. Those may sound like simple errors, but they can be very subtle - this is an exceedingly important clarification.
— Jan 28, 2026 12:32AM
Mesoscope
is on page 198 of 592
Reading Mipham's critique of Tsongkhapa carefully, it does not obviously hold. In "Beacon," as in his commentary to the Madhyamakavatara, his critique depends on a formulation that Tsongkhapa made only once, to my knowledge, in "Illumination": that "a pot is not empty of pot, it is empty of inherent existence." If you substitute Tsongkhapa's usual language, Mipham's argument doesn't obviously make contact.
— Jan 27, 2026 02:20AM
