[Buddha-l] As Swami goes, so goes the nation? (Dan Lusthaus and Richard P. Hayes) (Dan Lusthaus)

[Mitchell Ginsberg]

Hello Dan and all, 
Thank you for your very extensive and articulate reply to my question. 
I have two questions and want to mention that I do not see the Chinese characters here. I still have to call the internet provider (ATT) to see if there is a shifting of messages from 8-bit to 7-bit if I remember that possibility as the culprit here. Or maybe there is a simpler way of getting to see the characters. I have tried various Text Encoding settings and nothing helps. Anyway, on to my two questions or comments. 
1/ Re your comment"So the full Chinese equivalent Xuanzang offers for parikalpita-svabhava is ?????? bianji suozhi zixing, The self-nature by which one is attached to what is ubiquitously schematized.", I suspect this is part of the Mahayanic understanding of self-nature, because if I try to understand this, our attaching to what is ubiquitously schematized might give us a sense of self. Following you, though, I take it that sense of self and self-nature are quite distinct. I cannot make sense of this with the idea of the emptiness of self (or the essential interconnectedness that is implied by 'emptiness' in this context). Maybe that's a puzzlement that an explicit question. (What is the understanding here of self-nature that it can be something by which someone is attached to some thinking? that makes the question explicit.) 
2/ Paratantra as equivalent to paticcasamuppaada/pratiityasamutpaada: what is the understanding of the tantra (or the tan-) part of this? 
Thank you very much. 
Mitchell  ==========
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