1. JAMGÖN KONGTRUL (1813-1899) was a versatile and prolific scholar. He has been characterized as a "Tibetan Leonardo" because of his significant contributions to religion, education, medicine, and politics.
2. Gyurme Dorje holds a PhD in Tibetan Literature (SOAS, London) and an MA in Sanskrit with Oriental Studies (Edinburgh). From 1991 to 1996 he held research fellowships at London University, where he worked on the Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary. Other titles by the author include The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History (Wisdom, 1991), Tibetan Medical Paintings (Serindia, 1992), The Tibet Handbook (Footprint, 1996), and A Handbook of Tibetan Culture (Shambhala, 1994). Forthcoming publications include The Complete Tibetan Book of the Dead.
摘要
Jamgön Kongtrul's encyclopedic Treasury of Knowledge presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. Among the ten books that make up this tour de force, Book Six is by far the longest-concisely summarizing the theoretical fields of knowledge to be studied prior to the cultivation of reflection and discriminative awareness.
The first two parts of Book Six, contained in this volume, respectively concern Indo-Tibetan classical learning and Buddhist phenomenology. The former analyzes the traditional subjects of phonology and Sanskrit grammar, logic, fine art, and medicine, along with astrology, poetics, prosody, synonymics, and dramaturgy. The principal non-Buddhist philosophical systems of ancient India are then summarized and contrasted with the hierarchical meditative concentrations and formless absorptions through which the "summit of cyclic existence" can genuinely be attained. Part Two examines the phenomenological structures of Abhidharma—the shared inheritance of all Buddhist traditions—from three distinct perspectives, corresponding to the three successive turnings of the doctrinal wheel.
目次
Foreword by Zenkar Rinpoche, Thubten Nyima xi Introduction 1
THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE: Book Six A Graduated Exposition of Classical Studies 71
PART ONE: Indo-Tibetan Classical Learning 73 The Root Verses 75 The Auto-commentary 97 1 The Purpose and Scope of Learning 99 2 Articulation and Semantics 105 3 Sanskrit Grammar 125 4 Logic 139 5 Fine Arts 177 6 Medicine 317 7 Astrology and Divination 343 8 Poetics 359 9 Prosody 367 10 Synonymics 379 11 Dramaturgy 387 12 Mundane Spiritual Paths 395 13 The Exalted Vehicle 419
PART TWO: Buddhist Phenomenology 441 The Root Verses 443 The Auto-commentary 459 1 Non-Buddhist and Buddhist Philosophical Systems 461 2 Doxography of the Buddhist Traditions 465 3 Phenomenological Structures 469 4 The Tradition of Higher Abhidharma 473 5 The Tradition of the Lower Abhidharma 541 6 Phenomenological Basis according to the Final Promulgation 549 7 The Five Foundational Factors 555 8 The Three Natures 563 9 Dependent Origination 575
Appendix: Outline of the Text 613 Thematic Concordance of Terminology 637 Notes to Part One 743 Notes to Part Two 849 Abbreviations 875 Bibliography of Works Cited by the Author 877 Reference Bibliography 905 Index 945
