The Emptiness of EmptinessMotilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Contents
Candrakirtis Historical and Doctrinal Context | 17 |
The Philosophical Language of the Madhyamika | 25 |
The Ten Perfections of the Bodhisattva Path | 69 |
Philosophy as Propaganda | 105 |
Sources for the Translation | 145 |
The Immaculate | 151 |
The Directly Facing | 157 |
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The Treasury of Good Sayings: A Tibetan History of Bon Bkra-śis-rgyal-mtshan (Śar-rdza) Limited preview - 2005 |
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absence according action actually alternative appears apprehended arise Asanga assert awareness bodhi bodhisattva buddha Buddhist Candrakīrti carriage clinging cognition concept of emptiness conceptual thought consciousness context of everyday conventional truth deconstructive dependent origination designation devoid Dharma distinguishing characteristic doctrine dream entirely entity epistemological everyday experience fear and suffering ground hermeneutical highest meaning Hīnayāna illusion intellectual intrinsic nature intrinsically existent living Madhy Madhyamika Mahāyāna meditation mental mind Nāgārjuna natural interpretations nondualistic knowledge nonexistent notion object one's ontological opponent Pāli path perceived perception perfect wisdom philosophical philosophical view potentiality practice pragmatic prajñā Prasangika pratyekabuddhas present presuppositions problem produced psychophysical aggregates reality expressed realization reference reflection refutation reified concepts reified thought relationship ripened Sanskrit seed sense sentient simply soteriological soteriological truth spiritual ignorance sprout śrāvakas stage sūtra tathāgatagarbha tathāgatas teachings tetralemma text-critical texts things thought of awakening Tibetan tion translation understanding unproduced Vasubandhu volitional words Yogācāra
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Page x - opinion: Let me emphasize from the outset that the philosophical side cannot usually be divorced and treated entirely separately from the religious without a certain more or less arbitrary compartmentalization, for no hard and fast dividing line can normally be drawn between the philosophical and the religious in either India or Tibet. Indeed, the Sanskrit word
Page ix - Buddhism is not and never has pretended to be a "theory," an explanation of the universe; it is a way to salvation, a way of life. —E. Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China