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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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
