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Freedom from Extremes: Gorampa's 'Distinguishing the Views' and the Polemics of Emptiness |
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Cabezon, Jose Ignacio
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Geshe Lobsang Dargyay
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| Date | 2007.03.01 |
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| Pages | 432 |
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| Publisher | Wisdom Publications |
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http://www.wisdompubs.org/index.lasso
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| Location | Somerville, MA, US [薩默維爾, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 中道=The Middle Way; 中觀學派=龍樹學=中觀佛教=Madhyamaka=Madhyamika; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 空性=Sunyata=Sunnata=Emptiness; 格西=Geshe; 虛無主義=Nihilism |
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| Abstract | Fifteenth-century Buddhist scholar Gorampa challenged his contemporaries thinking about the fundamental concept of emptiness, pioneering an approach that avoided what he critiqued as the traps of eternalism and nihilism.Freedom from Extremesis his powerful polemic on the subject. This critical edition of a book renowned for its conciseness, lucidness, and profundity provides students and scholars with direct access to Gorampas own words. The authors offer illuminating context in an extensive introduction on his life and work, along with an overview of Tibetan polemical literature.
"What is emptiness? This question has preoccupied the greatest minds of India and Tibet for almost two millennia, producing hundreds of volumes by scholars grappling with this question. Differentiating the Views (lTa ba'i shan 'byed), by the fifteenth-century Sakya scholar Goram Sonam Sengge, or Gorampa, is one of the most important expositions of the philosophy of emptiness in all of Tibetan literature, a work esteemed for its conciseness, lucidity, and profundity. So influential is this book that it is taught in Tibet's greatest academic institutions even to the present day.
What is emptiness? The question has preoccupied the greatest minds of India and Tibet for almost 2 millennia, producing hundreds of volumes which address the question. Differentiating the views of the 15th century scholar Gorampa, this book reveals the concepts of one of the greatest expositions in Tibetan literat
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| Table of contents |
Preface
by José Ignacio Cabezón vii
In Memoriam: Geshe Lobsang Dargyay (1935-94)
by Eva Neumaier xi
Introduction 1
DISTINGUISHING THE VIEWS OF EMPTINESS: MOONLIGHT TO ILLUMINATE THE MAIN POINTS OF THE SUPREME PATH
Thematic Subdivisions of the Text 63
Chapter 1 Three Ways of Understanding the Madhyamaka 69
Chapter 2 The Refutation of Dol po pa 97
Chapter 3 The Refutation of Tsong kha pa 115
Chapter 4 The Middle Way as Freedom from Extremes 203
Abbreviations 239
Notes 243
Bibliography 337
Index 383 |
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| ISBN | 9780861715237; 0861715233 |
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| Hits | 806 |
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| Created date | 2007.11.15 |
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| Modified date | 2008.03.04 |
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