Editing Chandrakirti (section)

=== Buddhahood ===
Chandrakirti's view of [[Buddhahood]] is related to his apophatic views. For Chandrakirti, a Buddha's knowing of emptiness is not really knowing anything at all. Instead, a Buddha's knowledge of emptiness is a non-knowing in which there is neither an object nor a mind engaged in the act of knowing the object. Because of this, Chandrakirti holds that for a Buddha, all mind and mental factors (''cittacaitta'') have ceased. Even though from the point of view of ordinary people, a Buddha seems to teach and engage in activities, from the point of view of a Buddha, no conscious decisions are being made and no cognition occurs.<ref name=":3" /> Yet, as Dunne notes, Chandrakirti thereby faces serious difficulties in explaining "the improbable state of affairs" by which a Buddha could teach and benefit sentient beings without any cognitive relation to the world.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dunne |first=J. D. |date=1996-01-01 |title=Thoughtless Buddha, Passionate Buddha |url=https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jaarel/LXIV.3.525 |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion |language=en |volume=LXIV |issue=3 |pages=525–556 |doi=10.1093/jaarel/LXIV.3.525 |issn=0002-7189}}</ref>