The central philosophy of Tibet : a study and translation of Jey Tsong Khapa's Essence of true eloquence / translated with an introduction by Robert A. F. Thurman ; [with a foreword by the Dalai Lama].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thurman, Robert A.F., Author.

Contributor:

Thurman, Robert A. F., translator.

Lama, Dalai, writer of foreword.

Series:

Princeton library of Asian translations.

Princeton library of Asian translations

Standardized Title:

Drang nges rnam ʼbyed Legs bshad snying po. English

Language:

English

Tibetan

Subjects (All):

Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Dge-lugs-pa (Sect).

Buddhism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Buddhism.

Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, 1357-1419. Drang nges rnam ʼbyed Legs bshad snying po.

Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

Includes translation from Tibetan.

Summary:

This is the paperback edition of the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. Robert Thurman's translation and introduction present a strain of Indian Buddhist thought emphasizing the need for both critical reason and contemplative realization in the attainment of enlightenment. This book was originally published under the title Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the "Essence of True Eloquence." ? "I am very happy that Tsong Khapa's masterpiece of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy has been translated into English, and can now be studied by Western philosophers and practitioners of Buddhism. It has long been one of my favorite works, and I hope that others will appreciate its deep thought and lucid insights as we have for centuries in Tibet."--From the foreword by the Dalai Lama

Contents:

I. Reverence to the guru, Manjughosha!

II. Shambhu, Meghavahana, Hiranyagarbha

III. I bow devoted to Maitreya and Manjughosha

IV. I bow my head to the feet of Naharjuna and Asanga

V. Respectfully I bow to those master scholars

VI. Many who did not realize that

VII. But I have seen it quite precisely

VIII. You who aspire to peerless philosophy

The short essence of true eloquence

The great essence of true eloquence

I. Statements from the Elucidation of intention

II. Explanations of the scripture statements

III. The essential centrist message

IV. Explanations of the followers of the savior Nagarjuna

V. The dialecticist elucidation of the holy intention

VI. Avoidance of contradiction between the (dialecticist) system and the scriptures

VII. The chief reason for negation of ultimate status.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Tsong Khapa's speech of gold in The essence of true eloquence. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-420) and index.

ISBN:

9780691240190

0691240191

OCLC:

1287130737