Center for South Asia Weekly Lecture Series Fall 2023

For some followers of the Madhyamaka school (called Mādhyamikas), their arguments about the ways that ordinary persons perceive, analyze, and engage with the world force them into seemingly bizarre conclusions when they attempt to explain the content of a fully awakened buddha’s mind. This paper considers one account of a buddha’s awakened awareness (ye shes), according to the Tibetan philosopher Gorampa Sonam Senge (1429-89)