The different manners in which the Buddhist scriptures and systems conceived and presented the Buddha or a buddha led to numerous controversies, primarily on the existence and nature of the buddha's gnosis (jñāna / ye shes). In the lecture I shall discuss the traditional buddhological concepts as set forth by the eleventh-century Tibetan scholar Rong zom Chos kyi bzang po and provide a summary of the debate surrounding the buddha's gnosis.
