Nagarjuna S Wisdom

Author : Barry Kerzin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614295198

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Nagarjuna's Wisdom by Barry Kerzin Pdf

Explore the Mulamadhyamakakarika the way the Dalai Lama teaches it. Nagarjuna’s Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, or as it’s known in Tibetan, Root Wisdom, is a definitive presentation of the doctrines of emptiness and dependent arising, and a foundational text of Mahayana Buddhism. In this book, Barry Kerzin, personal physician to the Dalai Lama, presents this fundamental work in a digestible way, using a method favored by His Holiness: focusing on five key chapters, presented in a specific order. First we explore the twelve links of dependent origination, in Nagarjuna’s chapter 26, to learn why and how we cycle through sa?sara. Then we examine the self that cycles to discover that, in fact, there is no inherently existent self, based on Nagarjuna's chapter 18. We then enter an analysis of the four noble truths, based on chapter 24, to understand how conventional reality is understood. Next, an investigation of the Tathagata shows the reader that even emptiness is empty in chapter 22. Finally, Nagarjuna re-emphasizes the pervasiveness of emptiness in his first chapter. Thus, Dr. Kerzin walks us through Nagarjuna’s masterwork and lets the great teacher introduce us to Buddhist philosophy, step by step—deepening our understanding, enhancing the way we practice.

Author : Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570629990

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The Sun of Wisdom by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Pdf

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way was written in the second century and is one of the most important works of Nagarjuna, the pioneering commentator on the Buddha's teachings on the Madhyamika or Middle Way view. The subtle analyses presented in this treatise were closely studied and commented upon by many realized masters from the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Using Nagarjuna's root text and the great modern master Ju Mipham's commentary as a framework, Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso explains the most important verse from each chapter in the text in a style that illuminates for modern students both the meaning of these profound teachings and how to put them into practice in a way that benefits both oneself and others.

Author : Nagarjuna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199978595

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The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna Pdf

The Buddhist saint N=ag=arjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mah=ay=ana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the Mūlamadhyamikak=arik=a--read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea--is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Jay L. Garfield provides a clear and eminently readable translation of N=ag=arjuna's seminal work, offering those with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhist philosophy a view into the profound logic of the Mūlamadhyamikak=arik=a. Garfield presents a superb translation of the Tibetan text of Mūlamadhyamikak=arik=a in its entirety, and a commentary reflecting the Tibetan tradition through which N=ag=arjuna's philosophical influence has largely been transmitted. Illuminating the systematic character of N=ag=arjuna's reasoning, Garfield shows how N=ag=arjuna develops his doctrine that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, that is, than nothing exists substantially or independently. Despite lacking any essence, he argues, phenomena nonetheless exist conventionally, and that indeed conventional existence and ultimate emptiness are in fact the same thing. This represents the radical understanding of the Buddhist doctrine of the two truths, or two levels of reality. He offers a verse-by-verse commentary that explains N=ag=arjuna's positions and arguments in the language of Western metaphysics and epistemology, and connects N=ag=arjuna's concerns to those of Western philosophers such as Sextus, Hume, and Wittgenstein. An accessible translation of the foundational text for all Mah=ay=ana Buddhism, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way offers insight to all those interested in the nature of reality.

Author : Mark Siderits,Shoryu Katsura
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614290612

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Nagarjuna's Middle Way by Mark Siderits,Shoryu Katsura Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize. Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving Indian commentaries in an attempt to reconstruct an interpretation of its enigmatic verses that adheres as closely as possible to that of its earliest proponents. Each verse is accompanied by concise, lively exposition by the authors conveying the explanations of the Indian commentators. The result is a translation that balances the demands for fidelity and accessibility.

Author : Nāgārjuna
Publisher : Dharma Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015009137012

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Elegant Sayings by Nāgārjuna Pdf

Author : Lu-Trub (Nagarjuna)
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1919-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465578785

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She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) by Lu-Trub (Nagarjuna) Pdf

Author : Tsong khapa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199881956

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Ocean of Reasoning by Tsong khapa Pdf

Tsong kha pa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. An Ocean of Reasoning is the most extensive and perhaps the deepest extant commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way), and it can be argued that it is impossible to discuss Nagarjuna's work in an informed way without consulting it. It discusses alternative readings of the text and prior commentaries and provides a detailed exegesis, constituting a systematic presentation of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy. Despite its central importance, however, of Tsong kha pa's three most important texts, only An Ocean of Reasoning remains untranslated, perhaps because it is both philosophically and linguistically challenging, demanding a rare combination of abilities on the part of a translator. Jay Garfield and Ngawang Samten bring the requisite skills to this difficult task, combining between them expertise in Western and Indian philosophy, and fluency in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and English. The resulting translation of this important text will not only be a landmark contribution to the scholarship of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, but will serve as a valuable companion volume to Jay Garfield's highly successful translation of The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way.

Author : Jeffrey Hopkins
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559398923

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Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom by Jeffrey Hopkins Pdf

In fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tibet there was great ferment about what makes enlightenment possible, since systems of self-liberation must show what factors pre-exist in the mind that allow for transformation into a state of freedom from suffering. This controversy about the nature of mind, which persists to the present day, raises many questions. This book first presents the final exposition of special insight by Tsong-kha-pa, the founder of the Ge-luk-pa order of Tibetan Buddhism, in his medium-length Exposition of the Stages of the Path as well as the sections on the object of negation and on the two truths in his Illumination of the Thought: Extensive Explanation of Chandrakirti's Supplement to Nagarjuna's "Treatise on the Middle." It then details the views of his predecessor Dol-po-pa Shay-rap Gyel-tsen, the seminal author of philosophical treatises of the Jo-nang-pa order, as found in his Mountain Doctrine, followed by an analysis of Tsong-kha-pa's reactions. By contrasting the two systems—Dol-po-pa's doctrine of other-emptiness and Tsong-kha-pa's doctrine of self-emptiness—both views emerge more clearly, contributing to a fuller picture of reality as viewed in Tibetan Buddhism. Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom brilliantly explicates ignorance and wisdom, explains the relationship between dependent-arising and emptiness, shows how to meditate on emptiness, and explains what it means to view phenomena as like illusions.

Author : David Ross Komito,Geshe Sonam Rinchen,Tenzin Dorjee
Publisher : Snow Lion
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X030120616

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Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas by David Ross Komito,Geshe Sonam Rinchen,Tenzin Dorjee Pdf

For almost two thousand years Nagarjuna's teachings have occupied a central position in Mahayana Buddhism.

Author : Arya Nagarjuna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 193541304X

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Nagarjuna on the Six Perfections by Arya Nagarjuna Pdf

This text is a translation of chapters 17-30 of Arya Nagarjuna's immense "Exegesis on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra" (Mahaprajnaparamita-upadesa). It is a free-standing section of that commentary exclusively devoted to analyzing and explaining the various levels of practice of the bodhisattva's six perfections. In it, Nagarjuna sets forth numerous stories, analogies, and analyses as he reveals the deepest meaning of giving, moral virtue, patience, vigor, meditative discipline, and transcendent wisdom, the six primary qualities cultivated by a bodhisattva in progressing toward buddhahood. The translation is by the American monk, Bhikshu Dharmamitra. This volume includes facing-page source text in both traditional and simplified scripts as well as extensive text-structure outlining provided by the translator.

Author : K. Venkata Ramanan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788120801592

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Nagarjuna's Philosophy by K. Venkata Ramanan Pdf

This work is an exposition of the philosophic conceptions basic to Mahayana Buddhism as found in the Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra a commentary on the Prajnaparamita-sutras and traditionally attributed to Nagarjuna. The sastra the earliest and most extensive work in this field is lost in its Sanskrit original and preserved only in a Chinese translation. Meaning of Sanskrit and Chinese terms are expounded concepts are made clear and supplementary materials are supplied in the notes. The study is prefixed with a short historical account of the broad lines of Buddhist philosophy in its early stage. The aim of this work is to elucidate the meaning of the Middle Way, the way of comprehension. 'Everything stands in harmony with him who stands in harmony with Sunyata, which is not a rejection of existence or of understanding but of the misconstruction of the sense of the real or the error of misplaced absoluteness which is the origin of clinging and the root of conflict and suffering.'

Author : Sangharakshita
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781907314988

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Living Wisely by Sangharakshita Pdf

How do we live wisely? This is the question Sangharakshita seeks to answer in this commentary on Precious Garland of Advice for a King. In the companion volume, Living Ethically, Sangharakshita showed us that to live a Buddhist life we need to develop an ethical foundation, living in a way motivated increasingly by love, contentment and awareness. However, from a Buddhist viewpoint, 'being good' is not good enough. We need to use our positive ethical position to develop wisdom, a deep understanding of the true nature of existence.

Author : Nāgārjuna
Publisher : Snow Lion
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030112255

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Buddhist Advice for Living & Liberation by Nāgārjuna Pdf

In this foundational text of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, Nagarjuna offers intimate counsel on how to conduct one's life so as to improve one's condition and to gain release from all types of suffering, culminating in Buddhahood.

Author : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Compassion
ISBN : 8120817303

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Ocean of Nectar by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Pdf

Ocean of Nectar is first complete commentary in English to Chandrakirti`s classic Guide to the Middle Way, one of the most important scriptures in Mahayan Buddhism and regsrded to this day as the principal text on emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality. In this long-awaited major work Geshe kelsang provides an entirely new translation of Chandrakirti`s verse masterpiece and explains with outstanding clarity the philosophical reasoning establishing Budda`s most profound view of the middle way.

Author : Stephen Batchelor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101663097

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Verses from the Center by Stephen Batchelor Pdf

The understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna.