Path to the Middle: Oral Mādhyamika Philosophy in Tibet

The Spoken Scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden

Buch | Softcover

303 Seiten

1994
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-2044-7 (ISBN)

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Does a Bodhisattva's initial direct cognition of emptiness differ from subsequent ones? Can one "improve" a nondualistic understanding of the unconditioned and, if so, what role might subtle states of concentration play in the process? In material collected by Anne Klein over a seven-year period, Kensur Yeshey Tupden addresses these and other crucial issues of Buddhist soteriology to provide one of the richest presentations of Tibetan oral philosophy yet published in English. Anne Klein's introduction to his commentary surveys oral genres associated with Tibetan textual study, and the volume concludes with a translation of the text on which Kensur bases his discussion of the "Perfection of Wisdom" chapter in Tsong-kha-pa's Illumination of (Candrakirti's) Thought (dbu ma dgongs pa rab gsal), translated here by Jeffrey Hopkins and Anne Klein.

Anne C. Klein is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University. Her books include Knowledge and Liberation and Knowing Naming and Negation, and the forthcoming Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self.

Acknowledgments

Technical Note

Prologue

Preface

Introduction. Oral and Textual Genres: Buddhist Philosophy and the Many Dimensions of Reading in Tibet

Part I: Kensur Yeshey Tupden on Emptiness and the Bodhisattva Path

1. Introduction to the Sixth Bodhisattva Ground
2. Three Features of Understanding
3. The Students of Emptiness
4. How Good Qualities Arise When Emptiness is Explained
5. Exhortation to the Students of Emptiness

Part II: Ken sur Yeshey Tupden on the Meaning of Emptiness

6. The Sameness of Things: Dependent Arising and Reality
7. Valid Existence and Analysis
8. The Svatantrika School on True Existence
9. The Magician's Illusion: Truth and Falsity for Worldly Persons
10. The Prasangika School of True Existence

Part III: Tsong-Kah -Pa's Text
Translated by Jeffrey Hopkins and Anne Klein, annotated by Jeffrey Hopkins

1. Introduction to the Profound Meaning
2. Dependent Arising and Reality
3. The Svatantrika School on True Existence
4. The Prasangika School on True Existence

Glossaries

English-Tibetan-Sanskrit
Tibetan-Sanskrit-English
Sanskrit-English-Tibetan

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Epilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.8.1994
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Buddhist Studies
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-7914-2044-2 / 0791420442
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-2044-7 / 9780791420447
Zustand	Neuware