The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two: Foundations of Buddhist Study and Practice: The Higher Trainings in Sublime Intelligence and Meditative Absorption
1. Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye (1813–1900) was a versatile and prolific scholar and one of the most outstanding writers and teachers of his time in Tibet. He was a pivotal figure in eastern Tibet’s nonsectarian movement and made major contributions to education, politics, and medicine.
2. Richard Barron (Chökyi Nyima) has studied and translated Tibetan Buddhist texts for over thirty years. He completed the first three-year retreat held for Western students under the direction of Kalu Rinpoché. Since that time he has focused on both oral interpretation of teachings (for lamas from all four schools of the Tibetan tradition) and the translation of texts. His published translations include Buddhahood without Meditation, and he is involved in a long-term project to translate the "Seven Treasuries" of Longchenpa.
摘要
Foundations of Buddhist Study and Practice comprises Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two of the Treasury of Knowledge. Book Seven elucidates the various keys needed to correctly interpret, understand, and contemplate Buddhist teachings, including the secret teachings of the Vajrayana. Parts One and Two of Book Eight explain how the teachings are to be integrated into one’s life through the practice of meditation, which unites a state of one-pointed attention with profound insight into emptiness. Jamgön Kongtrul’s evenhanded, elegant, and authoritative statement of such controversial doctrines as unqualified emptiness (“self-empty”) and qualified emptiness (“other-empty”), provisional and definitive meaning, and conventional and ultimate truth as presented in the various schools of Tibetan Buddhism will appeal to both serious Dharma practitioners and advanced students and scholars.
目次
Foreword by the Venerable Ringu Tulku vii Translator's Introduction 1 BOOK SEVEN: The Higher Training in Sublime Intelligence 29 The Source Verses 31 The Higher Training in Sublime Intelligence 53 Part I. Keys to Understanding 55 Part 2. Understanding Truth and Meaning 79 Part 3. Authentic View 123 Part 4. Foundations of Spiritual Practice 175
BOOK EIGHT, Parts One and Two: The Higher Training in Meditative Absorption 205 The Source Verses 207 The Higher Training in Meditative Absorption 219 Part 1. Foundations of Meditative Absorption 221 Part 2. Meditation in the Cause-Based Dialectical Approach 259
Appendix: Outline of Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two 291 Glossary 297 Abbreviations 311 Notes 313 Bibliography of Works Cited by the Author 403 Reference Bibliography 413 Index 423
