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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duckworth, Douglas S., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Rin-ma-pa (Sect).

Mādhyamika (Buddhism).

Buddhahood.

Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho, Jam-mgon Ju, 1846-1912.

Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 292 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mipam ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912) is one of the most prolific thinkers in the history of Tibet and is a key figure in the Nyingma tradition of Buddhism. His works continue to be widely studied in the Tibetan cultural region and beyond. This book provides an in-depth account of Mipam's view, drawing on a wide range of his works and offering several new translations. Douglas S. Duckworth shows how a dialectic of presence and absence permeates Mipam's writings on the Middle Way and Buddha-nature. Arguably the most important doctrine in Buddhism, Buddha-nature is, for Mipam, equivalent to the true meaning of emptiness; it is the ground of all and the common ground shared by sentient beings and Buddhas. This ground is the foundation of the path and inseparable from the goal of Buddhahood. Duckworth probes deeply into Mipam's writings on Buddha-nature to illuminate its central place in a dynamic Buddhist philosophy

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780791477984

0791477983

9781435663787

1435663780

OCLC:

246175664