{"id":122,"date":"2010-04-05T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:49:20","slug":"cutting-the-roots-of-virtue-tsongkhapa-on-the-results-of-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/05\/cutting-the-roots-of-virtue-tsongkhapa-on-the-results-of-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsongkhapa on the Results of Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 2 1995<\/h6>\n<h3>Cutting the Roots of Virtue: Tsongkhapa on the Results of Anger<\/h3>\n<p>Daniel Cozort<br \/>\nDickinson College<\/p>\n<p>Anger is the most powerful of the <em>kle\u015bas<\/em> that not only &#8220;plant seeds&#8221; for suffering but also &#8220;cut the roots of virtue&#8221; for periods of up to a thousand aeons per instance. This article examines and assesses the exegesis by Tsongkhapa, founder of the Tibetan Gelukba order, of Indian sources on the topic of anger. It argues that despite Tsongkhapa&#8217;s many careful qualifications he may not be successful in avoiding the conclusion that if the s\u016btras are to be accepted literally, there almost certainly will be persons for whom liberation from sa\u1e43s\u0101ra is precluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/Tsongkhapa-on-the-Results-of-Anger.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cutting the Roots of Virtue:&#8221; Tsongkhapa on the Results of Anger<\/p>\n<p>By Daniel Cozort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2402],"tags":[2734,2585,2822,2683,2752],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-02-1995","tag-afflictive-emotions","tag-anger","tag-gelukpa","tag-tibetan-buddhism","tag-tsongkhapa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}