Format:
Online-Ressource (296 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1614290229
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9781614290223
Content:
A former abbot of one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world, Khensur Jampa Tegchok has been teaching Westerners about Buddhism since the 1970s. With a deep respect for the intellectual capacity of his Western students, Khensur Tegchok here unpacks with great erudition Buddhism's animating philosophical principle-the emptiness of all appearances. Instead of commenting on a text or relying on a traditional framework, Insight into Emptiness uses accessible language specifically tailored to the Western mind. Engagingly edited by bestselling author Thubten Chodron, emptiness is
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Front Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""An Overview""; ""The Origins of This Book""; ""A Note on Terminology""; ""Appreciation""; ""1. THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING ABOUT AND MEDITATING ON EMPTINESS""; ""Motivation""; ""The Sources of This Teaching""; ""The Benefits in General""; ""Admiration for the Profound""; ""The Three Doors of Liberation""; ""Benefits According to the Sutras""; ""2. WHY REALIZING EMPTINESS IS IMPORTANT""; ""Background""; ""Taking Refuge""; ""Cyclic Existence: The Five Aggregates and Six Realms""; ""Ignorance, Afflictions, Karma, and Liberation""
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""Renouncing Duhkha and Its Causes""""The Root of Cyclic Existence""; ""The Four Noble Truths""; ""3. ENTHUSIASM FOR EMPTINESS""; ""Understanding Emptiness Is Crucial""; ""The Danger of Misunderstanding Emptiness""; ""Doubt Inclined Toward Emptiness""; ""The Power of Realizing Emptiness""; ""More than One Way to Practice""; ""Confidence""; ""4. LOOKING AT THE LANDSCAPE""; ""The Four Seals""; ""Aryadeva�s Advice""; ""An Overview of the Levels of Selflessness""; ""The Buddha as a Skillful Teacher""; ""The Value of Reasoning""; ""Emptiness Is an Obscure Phenomenon""; ""5. WHAT IS A PERSON?""
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""The Person""""Persons and Phenomena""; ""The Five Aggregates""; ""The Continuity of Consciousness""; ""Who Is Joe?""; ""No Permanent, Unitary, and Independent Self""; ""Impermanence: Coarse and Subtle""; ""The Meaning of “Unitary� and “Independent�""; ""The Lack of a Self-Sufficient, Substantially Existent Person""; ""6. SEARCHING FOR THE PERSON""; ""The Basis of Designation and the Designated Object""; ""An Inherently Existent Person Can�t Be Found""; ""The Illustration of the Person""; ""The Illustration of the Person, the Mere I, and the Continuity of Mental Consciousness""
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""The General I and the Specific I""""7. INVESTIGATING THE I""; ""Ignorance and Wisdom""; ""The Valid I-Apprehending Mind and the Erroneous I-Grasping Mind""; ""Valid and Mistaken, but Not Erroneous""; ""The Self that Exists and the Self that Doesn�t""; ""Independence and Imputation""; ""8. EXPLORING SELFLESSNESS""; ""Selflessness in the Four Schools""; ""The Two Middle Way Schools""; ""Mere Imputation Without the Slightest Existence from Its Own Side""; ""Mere Name""; ""9. IMPUTED AND EMPTY""; ""What Is This Fluid?""; ""Not Findable, but Existent""; ""Searching for the Cart""
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""Appearing When Not Analyzed, Unfindable When Analyzed""""How to Learn about Emptiness""; ""10. ENLIGHTENMENT IS POSSIBLE""; ""All Sentient Beings Can Attain Enlightenment""; ""Adventitious Stains Can Be Eliminated""; ""Inconceivable and Inexpressible""; ""Combining Bodhichitta and Wisdom""; ""11. EASING INTO EMPTINESS""; ""A Review: How Ignorance Arises and Produces Afflictions""; ""The Sequence for Meditating on Selflessness""; ""Three Modes of Apprehending Phenomena""; ""Dependent Arising Contradicts Inherent Existence""; ""12. DEPENDENT ARISING""; ""Nagarjuna�s View""
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""The King of Reasonings""
Additional Edition:
9781614290131
Additional Edition:
Print version Insight into Emptiness
Language:
English
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