Jamgon Kongtrul 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.
摘要
In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. This first book of The Treasury which serves as a prelude to Kongtrul's survey describes four major cosmological systems found in the Tibetan tradition-those associated with the Hinayana, Mahayana, Kalachakra, and Dzog-chen teachings. Each of these cosmologies shows how the world arises from mind, whether through the accumulated results of past actions or from the constant striving of awareness to know itself.
目次
Contents Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 6 Preface 9 Translators' Introduction 15
Root Verses from The Encompassment of All Knowledge 57 Prologue 35 Introduction 79 Overview of The Infinite Ocean of Knowledge 91
Myriad Worlds I. The Cosmology of the Universal Way 95 II. Our Universe according to the Individual and Universal Ways 107 III. Space and Time in the Tantra of the Wheel of Time 147 IV. The Causes of Cyclic Life 171 V. The Primordial Purity of the Universe 203
Appendix: Outline of the Text 229 Glossary of Technical Terms 235 Glossary of Names 245 Abbreviations 253 Notes 255 Bibliography of Works Cited 281 Reference Bibliography 287 Index 291
