Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD, served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.
This concise but revealing book gives a glimpse inside the relatively unexplored thought world of the Jonangpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. This seminal text from that tradition situates the doctrine of other-emptiness within the tenet systems of the four traditional schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Jeffrey Hopkins continues his groundbreaking exploration of the Jo-nang-ba sect of Tibetan Buddhism with this revelatory translation of one of the seminal texts from that tradition. Whereas Dol-bo-ba's massive Mountain Doctrine authenticates the doctrine of other-emptiness through extensive scriptural citations and elaborate philosophical arguments, Taranatha's more concise work translated here situates the doctrine of other-emptiness within the context of schools of tenets, primarily the famed four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, through comparing the various schools' opinions on the status of the noumenon and phenomena. Also included is a supplementary text by Taranatha which presents the opinions of a prominent fifteenth-century Sakya scholar, Shakya Chok-den, and contrasts them with those of the leading Jo-nang-ba scholar Dol-bo-ba.
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Contents Technical Notes v Introduction 7 The Essence of Other-Emptiness by Taranatha 19 I. General Indication of Presentations of Tenets 21 Non-Buddhist Schools of Tenets 21 Buddhist Schools of Tenets 27 Great Exposition School 29 SOtra School 38 Mind-Only School 48 Middle Way School 51 II. Identifying the Presentation of the Middle 74 The Uncommon Meaning 88 III. Clearing Away Extremes Imputed by Others 98 Twenty-One Differences Regarding the Profound Meaning by Taranatha 111 List of Abbreviations 131 Bibliography 133 1. SOtras and Tantras 133 2. Other Sanskrit and Tibetan Works 135
