Path to the middle : oral Mādhyamika philosophy in Tibet : the spoken scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden : commenting on Tsong-kha-pa's Illumination of the thought, extensive explanation of (Candrakīrti's) "Entrance to (Nāgārjuna's) 'Treatise on the middle way'" : (dbu ma dgongs pa rab gsal), the sixth chapter, "Perfection of wisdom" verses 1-7

Author(s)

• Kensur Lekden
• Klein, Anne C.
• Hopkins, Jeffrey
• Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa

Bibliographic Information

Path to the middle : oral Mādhyamika philosophy in Tibet : the spoken scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden : commenting on Tsong-kha-pa's Illumination of the thought, extensive explanation of (Candrakīrti's) "Entrance to (Nāgārjuna's) 'Treatise on the middle way'" : (dbu ma dgongs pa rab gsal), the sixth chapter, "Perfection of wisdom" verses 1-7

collected, translated, edited, annotated, and introduced by Anne Carolyn Klein ; translation of Tsong-kha-pa's text by Jeffrey Hopkins and Anne Klein ; annotations by Jeffrey Hopkins

（SUNY series in Buddhist studies）

State University of New York Press, c1994

• : pbk

Other Title

Path to the middle : commenting on Tsong-kha-pa's Illumination of the thought, extensive explanation of (Candrakīrti's) "Entrance to (Nāgārjuna's) "Treatise on the middle way""

Note

Bibliography: p. 273-290

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA24617676
• ISBN:
  • 0791420434
  • 0791420442
• LCCN: 93039863
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: tib
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 303 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BQ2910.M365
  • DC20 : 294.3/83
  • NDC6 : 180.222
  • NDC8 : 182.229
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa, 1357-1419. Dbu ma la ʾjug paʾi rnam bśad dgoṅs pa rab gsal. 6. Don dam paʾi sems bskyed pa drug paʾi bśad pa
  • LCSH : Candrakīrti. Madhyamakāvatāra
  • LCSH : Mādhyamika (Buddhism)
  • LCSH : Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
  • FREE : Prajñā
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00558517