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The Gelug Chittamatra view is that “the year 2008” is a dependent phenomenon (gzhan-dbang) – a nonstatic phenomenon that arises dependently on other phenomena as its causes and conditions.
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The Gelug Prasangika position is that these five lines of reasoning can be used to prove the voidness of true existence to an opponent only through an inferential cognition employing what is well known to others (gzhan-la grags-pa'i rjes-dpag).
The Five Great Madhyamaka Lines of Reasoning Used to Establish Voidness 2009
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They call this “other-voidness” (gzhan-stong), because it is a cognitive state devoid of other levels of mind, namely the levels of mind at which conceptual cognition occurs.
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An implicative negation phenomenon (ma-yin dgag, affirming negation) is an exclusion of something else (gzhan-sel) in which, after the sounds of the words that exclude the object to be negated have negated that object, they leave behind in their wake (bkag-shul), explicitly or implicitly, something else.
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Various Tibetan traditions of dzogchen, and masters within each tradition, have explained the primal purity of rigpa in terms of self-voidness (rang-stong), other-voidness (gzhan-stong), or both.
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According to other-voidness (gzhan-stong) systems, nondenumerable voidness is a way of being aware of something.
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations 2006
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Within the context of gaining a clear light realization that is both a cognitive and object clear light, voidness may be either self-voidness (rang-stong), other-voidness (gzhan-stong), or both.
Comparison of Highest Tantra Voidness Meditation in the Four Tibetan Traditions 2006
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Decisive determination entails exclusion of what is other (gzhan-sel), which is purely a conceptual process.
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations 2006
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Negation phenomena are exclusions of something else (gzhan-sel, exclusions, eliminations of what is other), in which an object to be negated (dgag-bya) is explicitly precluded by the conceptual cognition that cognizes the phenomenon.
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006
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All such negation phenomena are called “individually characterized object exclusions of something else” (don rang-mtshan-gyi gzhan-sel, object exclusions) and are nonstatic objective entities.
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006
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