Path to the Middle: Oral Mādhyamika Philosophy in Tibet

Anne C. Klein is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University. Her books include Knowledge and Liberation and Knowing Naming and Negation, and the forthcoming Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self.

Acknowledgments

Technical Note

Prologue

Preface

Introduction. Oral and Textual Genres: Buddhist Philosophy and the Many Dimensions of Reading in Tibet

Part 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

Part II: Ken sur 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 of True Existence

Part III: Tsong-Kah -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

Epilogue