Cutting Through Appearances

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Cutting Through Appearances

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Author : Geshe Lhundub Sopa
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1989-01-01

Cutting Through Appearances written by Geshe Lhundub Sopa and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Religion categories.

This book presents the practice and theory of Tibetan Buddhism. First is a meditation manual written by the Fourth Pan-chen Lama (1781–1852), based on Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path, which covers the daily practice of Tibetan monks and yogis. It details how to properly conduct a meditation session that contains the entire scope of the Buddhist path. Next is the Presentation of Tenets, written by Gon-chok-jik-may-wang-bo. It covers Indian Buddhist schools, as viewed in Tibet, and provides a solid introduction to the Buddhist theory animating the practice. Topics include the two truths, consciousness, hindrances to enlightenment, paths to freedom, and fruits of practice.

A Concise Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism

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Author : John Powers
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala
Release Date : 2008-04-28

A Concise Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism written by John Powers and has been published by Shambhala this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-28 with Religion categories.

Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers's nearly 600-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of meditation and tantra and provides a survey of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism

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Author : John Powers
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2007-11-09

Introduction To Tibetan Buddhism written by John Powers and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-09 with Religion categories.

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doctrines, meditation, practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. The revised edition contains expanded discussions of recent Tibetan history and tantra and incorporates important new publications in the field. Beginning with a summary of the Indian origins of Tibetan Buddhism and how it eventually was brought to Tibet, it explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantric methods for personal transformation. The four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Bön, are explored in depth from a nonsectarian point of view. This new and expanded edition is a systematic and wonderfully clear presentation of Tibetan Buddhist views and practices.

Making Sense Of Mind Only

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Author : William S. Waldron
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-11-07

Making Sense Of Mind Only written by William S. Waldron and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Philosophy categories.

Through engaging, contemporary examples, Making Sense of Mind Only reveals the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism as a coherent system of ideas and practices for the path to liberation, contextualizing its key texts and rendering them accessible and relevant. The Yogacara, or Yoga Practice, school is one of the two schools of Mahayana Buddhism that developed in the early centuries of the common era. Though it arose in India, Mahayana Buddhism now flourishes in China, Tibet, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. While the other major Mahayana tradition, the Madhyamaka (Middle Way), focuses on the concept of emptiness—that all phenomena lack an intrinsic essence—the Yogacara school focuses on the cognitive processes whereby we impute such essences. Through everyday examples and analogues in cognitive science, author William Waldron makes Yogacara’s core teachings—on the three turnings of the Dharma wheel, the three natures, the storehouse consciousness, and mere perception—accessible to a broad audience. In contrast to the common characterization of Yogacara as philosophical idealism, Waldron presents Yogacara Buddhism on its own terms, as a coherent system of ideas and practices, with dependent arising its guiding principle. The first half of Making Sense of Mind Only explores the historical context for Yogacara’s development. Waldron examines early Buddhist texts that show how our affective and cognitive processes shape the way objects and worlds appear to us, and how we erroneously grasp onto them as essentially real—perpetuating the habits that bind us to samsara. He then analyzes the early Madhyamaka critique of essences. This context sets the stage for the book’s second half, an examination of how Yogacara texts such as the Samdhinirmocana Sutra and Asanga’s Stages of Yogic Practice (Yogacarabhumi) build upon these earlier ideas by arguing that our constructive processes also occur unconsciously. Not only do we collectively, yet mostly unknowingly, construct shared realities or cultures, our shared worlds are also mediated through the storehouse consciousness (alayavijñana) functioning as a cultural unconscious. Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses argues that we can learn to recognize such objects and worlds as “mere perceptions” (vijñaptimatra) and thereby abandon our enchantment with the products of our own cognitive processes. Finally, Maitreya’s Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Ultimate Nature (Dharmadharmatavibhaga) elegantly lays out the Mahayana path to this transformation.

Freedom From Extremes

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Author : Jose Ignacio Cabezon
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-08

Freedom From Extremes written by Jose Ignacio Cabezon and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-08 with Religion categories.

What is emptiness? This question at the heart of Buddhist philosophy has preoccupied the greatest minds of India and Tibet for two millennia, producing hundreds of volumes. Distinguishing the Views, by the fifteenth-century Sakya scholar Gorampa Sonam Senge, is one of the most important of those works, esteemed for its conciseness, lucidity, and profundity. Freedom from Extremes presents Gorampa's elegant philosophical case on the matter of emptiness here in a masterful translation by Geshe Lobsang Dargyay. Gorampa's text is polemical, and his targets are two of Tibet's greatest thinkers: Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelug school, and Dolpopa, a founding figure of the Jonang school. Distinguishing the Views argues that Dolpopa has fallen into an eternalistic extreme, whereas Tsongkhapa has fallen into nihilism, and that only the mainstream Sakya view - what Gorampa calls "freedom from extremes" - represents the true middle way, the correct view of emptiness. Suppressed for years in Tibet, this seminal work today is widely regarded and is studied in some of Tibet's greatest academic institutions. Gorampa's treatise has been translated and annotated here by two leading scholars of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and a critical edition of the Tibetan text on facing pages gives students and scholars direct access to Gorampa's own words. Jose Cabezon's extended introduction provides a thorough overview of Tibetan polemical literature and contextualizes the life and work of Gorampa both historically and intellectually. Freedom from Extremes will be indispensable for serious students of Madhyamaka thought.

Finding Colonial Americas

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Author : Joseph A. Leo Lemay
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2001

Finding Colonial Americas written by Joseph A. Leo Lemay and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

The stories now being told about the colonial American past represent an "America" newly found, as scholars continue to evaluate and revise the longer-standing stories that have, across the centuries, held particular cultural and critical sway. This collection is a celebration of the widening of scholarly inquire in early American studies, and a tribute to a leading early Americanist whose scholarly career continues to contribute to the opening up of crucial questions of canon.

Post Mortem Appearances

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Author : Joan Margaret Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

Post Mortem Appearances written by Joan Margaret Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Autopsy categories.

Transactions Of The American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting

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Author : American Ophthalmological Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885

Transactions Of The American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting written by American Ophthalmological Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Ophthalmology categories.

The British Veterinary Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877

The British Veterinary Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Veterinary medicine categories.

Transactions Of The American Ophthalmological Society

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887

Transactions Of The American Ophthalmological Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.