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Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

Overview

Establishing Appearances as Divine, a concise treatise by the eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo, sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually deity manifest. Many books on Tibetan Buddhism address the important themes of mind training, compassion, and proper conduct, but this penetrating study and translation of Rongzom’s text goes beyond that in its aim to bring the reader face to face with his or her pure, divine nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781559398220
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 04/28/2008
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 817 KB

About the Author

Heidi Köppl has worked as a translator at the Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Nepal for more than a decade and has been a faculty member at the Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies since the Centre's inception. She is currently doing research for a doctorate degree in Buddhist Studies at the University of Lausanne.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     7
Introduction     9
Rongzom's Environment, Life, and Works     15
Introduction to Mantra from a Nyingma Perspective     23
A Comparison of Esoteric Systems     24
The Relationship between Sutra and Mantra in the Nyingma School     29
Use of Sutric Terms in Esoteric Writings     29
The Superiority of Mantra According to the Nyingma School     30
Rongzom's View on Madhyamaka in Relation to Mantra     37
Rongzom's Madhyamaka     38
Rongzom's Reservations Regarding a Relative Truth Held to Be Distinct from the Ultimate     42
Rongzom's Influence on Mipham's Madhyamaka     51
Concluding Reflections     57
Rongzom's Four Principles of Reasoning as Means for Establishing Purity     61
The Reasoning of Intrinsic Nature (chos nyid kyi rigs pa, dharmatayukti)     66
The Reasoning of Efficacy (bya ba 'byed pa'i rigs pa, karyakaranayukti)     76
The Reasoning of Dependency (ltos pa'i rigs pa, apeksayukti)     78
The Reasoning of Valid Proof ('thad pa sgrub pa'i rigs pa, upapattisadhanayukti)     80
Rongzom's Influence on Mipham's Epistemological Account of Purity     82
Conclusion     89
Translation and Comparative Edition ofEstablishing Appearances as Divine
Translation     95
Comparative Edition of Establishing Appearances as Divine     109
Bibliography     129
Notes     135
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