Tsongkhapa · Theology

In Praise of Dependent Arising

Tsongkhapa&rsquo;s thesis, poured into a hymn of devotion, that emptiness and cause-and-effect are perfectly compatible and even reinforce each other - so that dependent arising is itself the <em>reason</em> for emptiness - and his gratitude to the Buddha as the teacher who revealed it.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Tsongkhapa wrote a hymn praising the Buddha specifically as the teacher of dependent arising , and that its core claim is that dependent origination is the reason for emptiness: because things arise dependently, they must be empty of independent existence, so emptiness and cause-and-effect confirm rat…

Leads to Nagarjuna.

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