Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 9 - Appearing and Empty

Sprache / Language: Englisch / English
Hardcover, 544 pages.

Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron: VOLUME 9 - Appearing and Empty

About the book

This final volume on emptiness, Appearing and Empty, reveals the Prasangikas’ view of the ultimate nature of reality so that we will gain the correct view of emptiness and the means to eliminate our own and others’ duhkha.

His Holiness and Venerable Thubten Chodron take us through the Sautrantika, Yogacara, and Svatantrika views on the ultimate nature of reality and the Prasangikas’ thorough responses to these, so that we gain the correct view of emptiness—the selflessness of both persons and phenomena. This view entails negating inherent existence while also being able to establish conventional existence: emptiness does not mean nothingness. We then learn how to meditate on the correct view by cultivating pristine wisdom that is the union of serenity and insight as taught in the Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan traditions. Such meditation, when combined with the altruistic intention of bodhicitta, leads to the complete eradication of all defilements that obscure our minds. This volume also introduces us to the tathagatagarbha—the buddha essence—and how it is understood in both Tibet and China. Is it permanent? Does everyone have it? In addition, the discussion of sudden and gradual awakening in Zen (Chan) Buddhism and in Tibetan Buddhism is fascinating.

Contents

• The Two Truths
• Veiled Truths
• Ultimate Truths
• What Exists and the Reliable Cognizers That Know It
• The World of Dependent, Imputed Appearances
• Mind and Its Objects in the Yogācāra System
• Nature, Natureless, and Selflessness in Yogācāra
• The Two Madhyamaka Schools
• Prāsaṅgikas’ Response to Svātantrikas
• Unique Explanations of the Prāsaṅgikas
• Insight
• Insight in Chinese Buddhism and the Pali Tradition
• The Diversity of Chinese Buddhism Schools
• Yogācāra and Tathāgatagarbha in China
• Madhyamaka in China
• Buddhist Renewal