Path to the Middle : Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet : The Spoken Scholarship of Kensur Yeshey Tupden Book

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Oral and textual genres: Buddhist philosophy and the many dimensions of reading in Tibet. I. Kensur Yeshey Tupden on Emptiness and the Bodhisattva Path: 1. Introduction to the sixth Bodhisattva ground. 2. Three features of understanding. 3. The students of emptiness. 4. How good qualities arise when emptiness is explained. 5. Exhortation to the students of emptiness. II. Kensur Yeshey Tupden on the Meaning of Emptiness: 6. The sameness of things: dependent arising and reality. 7. Valid existence and analysis. 8. The Svatantrika school on true existence. 9. The Magician's illusion: truth and falsity for worldly persons. 10. The Prasangika school on true existence. III. Tsong-Kha-Pa's text/translated by Jeffrey Hopkins and Anne Klein, annotated by Jeffrey Hopkins: 1. Introduction to the profound meaning. 2. Dependent arising and reality. 3. The Svatantrika school on true existence. 4. The Prasangika school on true existence. Glossaries: English-Tibetan-Sanskrit. Tibetan-Sanskrit-English. Sanskrit-English-Tibetan. Notes. Bibliography. Index.