The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- General Remarks -- Textual Historical Background -- Part I: Early Period: Kadam Thinkers Rescue the Treatise -- Chapter 1 Rise of the Uttaratantra in Tibet: Early Kadam Scholars Revitalize the Newly Discovered Indian Exegesis -- Introduction -- Ngok and...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Further subjects: | B
Mahayana Buddhism (Tibet Region)
B Enlightenment B Electronic books B Ratnagotravibhāga Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Wangchuk, Tsering: The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows : Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2017. - 9781438464657 |
| Summary: | Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- General Remarks -- Textual Historical Background -- Part I: Early Period: Kadam Thinkers Rescue the Treatise -- Chapter 1 Rise of the Uttaratantra in Tibet: Early Kadam Scholars Revitalize the Newly Discovered Indian Exegesis -- Introduction -- Ngok and Chapa on the Pervasive Nature of the Buddha-Body -- Ngok and Chapa on Definitive or Provisional Nature in the Uttaratantra -- Ngok and Chapa on the Uttaratantra as a Last-Wheel Treatise -- Buddha-Element as a Conceived Object -- Ngok and Chapa Differ on Emphasis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Sowing Seeds for Future Debate: Dissenters and Adherents -- Introduction -- Sapen, the Dissenter -- Rikrel, the Third Karmapa, and Sangpu Lodrö Defend the Uttaratantra -- Rinchen Yeshé's Proto Other-Emptiness Presentation of the Uttaratantra and Butön's Reply -- Conclusion -- Part II: The Pinnacle Period: The Other-Emptiness Interpretation Spreads -- Chapter 3 Other-Emptiness Tradition: The Uttaratantra in Dölpopa's Works -- Introduction -- Predominance of the Last-Wheel Scriptures -- Is the Uttaratantra a Cittamātra Text or a Madhyamaka Text? -- Classification of Cittamātra -- Classification of Madhyamaka -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Uttaratantra in Fourteenth-Century Tibet -- Introduction -- Sazang Follows in His Master's Footsteps -- Two Fourteenth-Century Kadam Masters' Uttaratantra Commentaries -- Longchenpa's View on the Uttaratantra -- Conclusion -- Part III: The Argumentation Period: Self-Emptiness Proponents Criticize Other-Emptiness Approach -- Chapter 5 Challenges to the Purely Definitive Nature of the Uttaratantra: Zhalu Thinkers Criticize Dölpopa -- Introduction -- Butön's Ornament -- Dratsépa's Commentary -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Challenges to the Supremacy of the Uttaratantra: Rendawa and Tsongkhapa on Tathāgata-Essence Literature -- Introduction Rendawa on the Uttaratantra and the Tathāgata-Essence Literature -- Tsongkhapa on the Uttaratantra and the Tathāgata-Essence Literature -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Gyeltsap's Commentary on the Uttaratantra: A Critique of Dölpopa's Interpretation of Tathāgata-Essence Literature -- Introduction -- Middle-Wheel and Last-Wheel Teachings -- Definitive Meaning and Provisional Meaning -- Self-Emptiness and Other-Emptiness -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- General Remarks -- Completing the Cycle -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Tibetan Language Works Cited -- English Language Works Cited -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1438464673 |