Mipam on Buddha-nature : the ground of the Nyingma tradition / Douglas S. Duckworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duckworth, Douglas S., 1971-

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho, ʼJam-mgon ʼJu, 1846-1912.

Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho.

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect)--Doctrines.

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect).

Mādhyamika (Buddhism).

Buddhahood.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Contents:

Presence and absence

Historical survey

Monastic education and the non-sectarian movement

Life and works of Mipam

Summary of contents

The end of the beginning

Buddha-nature and the unity of the two truths

Mipam's synthesis

Two truths

Buddha-nature as the unity of appearance and emptiness

Buddha-nature as the definitive meaning

Middle way of Prāsaṅgika and Yogācāra

Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika

Dialectical ascent

Foundations of Yogācāra

Prāsaṅgika vs. Yogācāra

The present absence

Other-emptiness in the Jonang

Other-emptiness and the Ningma: Lochen Dharmaśri

Another emptiness? Emptiness of self/other

Phenomena and suchness

De/limiting emptiness

Emptiness as the unity of appearance and emptiness

Buddha-nature and the ground of the great perfection

Distinguishing the views on Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature as heritage, Buddha-nature as the ground

Appearance and reality

The indivisible ground and fruition

Establishing Buddha-nature: the immanent Buddha

Establishing appearances as divine

Buddha-nature and a difference between sutra and mantra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780791475218

0791475212

OCLC:

173182555

Publisher Number:

99934783548