☸Bidiya Dandarovich Dandaron

1914-1974 · Indo-Tibetan Buddhism · Obscure

Dandaron was a Buryat Buddhist lama and scholar of Tibet, recognized in childhood as a tulku, a teacher held to be his predecessor reborn. He spent years in Soviet labor camps and picked up Western philosophy there from fellow prisoners. He tried to weld Tibetan tantric Buddhism to Kant's critical philosophy and to modern science, a project he called Neobuddhism. He died in the camps.

Signature

The position Dandaron is most identified with in the Profiler:

Mind

leans Beyond Brain

Perception

Non-Dual Awareness

Positions on the 4 axes the sources answer

Mind

leans Beyond Brain (75 on a 0–100 scale from Brain Only to Beyond Brain)

Identity

mildly leans Changing (65 on a 0–100 scale from Unchanging to Changing)

Nature of Reality

leans Unity (25 on a 0–100 scale from Unity to Multiplicity)

Ground of Being

leans Transcendence (75 on a 0–100 scale from Immanence to Transcendence)

16 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Dandaron refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.

Foundational questions

Theology

Pantheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods?

Highest Good

Union with God / Harmony
What is the highest good?

Good and Evil

Good Real, Evil Privative
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil?

Perception

Non-Dual Awareness
What do we directly perceive?

Knowledge

Intuition
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge?

Ethics Basis

Relational
What is the ultimate basis of ethics?

Agency

Karmic Causation
What is the nature of human agency and freedom?

Beginning of Things

Eternal Cosmos
What is the origin of reality?

Time

Cyclical Return
What is the fundamental shape of time?

Authority

Sacred Tradition
What is the legitimate source of authority?

Death

Karmic Cycle
What happens at death?

Human Nature

No-Self
What is human nature?

Primary Bond

All Beings
What is your primary bond and loyalty?

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