alwayson wrote:deepbluehum wrote:
He is referring to the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. There the term aggregates is used euphemistically for the pure, bliss, eternal, self of the tathagatagarbha, and these terms are in fact euphemisms for freedom from extremes, nirvana. So his contention that the sambhoga has aggregates is misled.
No way.
I am following basic Mahayana Buddhism and Madhyamaka.
Nagarjuna's and disciples' reasoning is not that dependent origination is emptiness. It is that those who see dependent origination see emptiness and vice versa. He doesn't create a tautological syllogism from it. That would be reifying an existent and a nonexistent, i.e., emptiness is dependent origination. Arya Nagarjuna does neither.
You still haven't arrived at how Madhyamaka says the Sambhogas are dependently originated, because if they were, then they'd be grasping at ignorance.
I hate Budda Nature sutras with a passion.
They are very useful. But one must understand what they are saying, i.e., from Nagarjuna's In Praise of Dharmadhatu.